Coal-fired Power Plant SCR Use to Double between 2012 and 2017
The coal-fired capacity utilizing SCR for NOx control will nearly
double in the period 2012 to 2017. This is the prediction of the McIlvaine
Company in its continually updated, NOx Control World Markets.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Installed Capacity (MW)
World Region |
2012 |
2017 |
Total |
423,830 |
808,416 |
Africa |
0 |
0 |
CIS |
0 |
0 |
East Asia |
186,326 |
486,904 |
Eastern Europe |
0 |
19,090 |
Middle East |
0 |
3,300 |
NAFTA |
173,184 |
210,805 |
South & Central America |
0 |
0 |
West Asia |
0 |
0 |
Western Europe |
64,320 |
88,317 |
Total capacity will grow by almost 385,000 MW during the five-year period.
East Asia will account for 78 percent of the growth. Growth in coal-fired SCR
will be modest in NAFTA, but there will be a big SCR market for gas turbines.
The SCR market for gas turbines, refineries and other applications will be
growing in Central and South America.
These numbers do not reflect replacements. In Western Europe, a number of SCR
systems will be replaced due to age and the increasing stringency of
regulations. China will be the largest purchaser of SCR systems over the next
five years. New power plants will be fitted with SCR systems while existing
power plants in polluted city areas will be retrofitted with this technology.
The forecast does not include retrofitting the remaining 100,000 MW of U.S
coal-fired power plants with SCR. The assumption is that they will rely on low
NOx burners or SCR. Alternatively, these power plants may be
retired. However, it may be necessary to revise this forecast in the next few
months. The price of gas has risen. As a result, more coal is being
burned. Power plants are beginning to rethink their coal-fired power plant
retirement strategies.
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The Big Get Bigger in the $38 Billion Global Pump Industry
The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump
business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each.
According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the
concentration of the industry has again accelerated. There have been a number of
recent acquisitions and geographic expansions.
GE, the nineteenth largest pump company, will move several rungs up the ladder
as it acquires Lufkin Industries, Inc., a leading provider of artificial lift
technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of industrial
gears, for approximately $3.3 billion. Artificial lift, used in 94 percent of
the roughly one million oil-producing wells around the world, helps lift
hydrocarbons to the surface in reservoirs with low pressure and improves the
efficiency of naturally flowing wells. Lufkin will broaden GE oil and gas
artificial lift capabilities beyond electric submersible pumps (ESPs) to include
rod lift, gas lift, plunger lift, hydraulic lift, progressive cavity pumps and a
sophisticated array of well automation and production optimization controls and
software. The ESP category of artificial lift is the only lift segment in which
Lufkin does not currently compete.
The world’s fifth largest pump company, Weir, has acquired the R Wales group of
companies (“R Wales”), a Canadian based manufacturer of specialist rubber and
wear resistant linings for the mining, minerals processing and oil sands
industries. The acquisition, which was completed on February 15, 2013,
with Canadian facilities in British Columbia and Ontario and a U.S. facility in
Arizona, R Wales designs and manufactures rubber lining for pipes, tanks, chutes
and hoses and specializes in custom rubber and urethane moulded products,
including slurry pump wear parts and mill liners. In 2012, the Wales Group
generated revenues in excess of C$30m. The acquisition extends Weir’s
aftermarket position in the production and servicing of a wide range of rubber
lined wear components for the North American oil sands and mining sectors and
complements the existing customer base and product portfolio.
Weir has also advanced its global foundry supply chain strategy, completing the
acquisition of the business and assets of the Cheong Foundry in Malaysia on
February 6, 2013. Based near Kuala Lumpur, the facility supplies castings to a
number of industries, including mining and power. The acquisition enables Weir
to add foundry capacity to serve the Asia-Pacific region with high quality
products from a best cost sourcing region. In addition, agreement has been
reached to acquire the plant, equipment and buildings of Xmeco Foundry Pty. Ltd,
a specialist large casting foundry in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Xmeco
expands Weir’s capacity and capability on the African continent, enabling the
full product range to be locally produced.
The third largest pump company, Grundfos, will expand its Indian production
capacity by setting up an additional unit. As part of the expansion plans, with
an initiative of making India as the second home, the company plans to invest
Rs. 230 crores in the next five years. Grundfos India has been growing at
30-35 percent since its inception in 1998. With the turnover of Rs. 318
crores in 2012, Grundfos is looking at Rs. 1000 crores turnover in the next five
years.
Number twenty-two in the rankings, Pentair, is planning to invest $50 million in
expanding its operations in the UAE. Pentair wants to increase its $400
million current turnover in the UAE to $1 billion. In particular, the company is
looking to invest in a new pump manufacturing facility in the region.
Number twenty-eight in world ranking, Gorman-Rupp Africa, has purchased the
business of Pumptron with cash generated from operations. Pumptron has been an
international value-added distributor for Gorman-Rupp for over twenty-five years
and will further enhance the company’s continuing international expansion.
Founded in 1986, Pumptron is a provider of water-related pumping solutions
primarily serving the construction, mining, agricultural and municipal markets
in South Africa and, increasingly, throughout other sub-Sahara African
countries. Pumptron is headquartered in Johannesburg with operating locations in
Cape Town and Durban and had approximately $10 million in revenue during its
fiscal year 2012, which includes sales of Gorman-Rupp products.
The Gorman-Rupp subsidiary, National Pump Company, purchased American Turbine
Pump Companies (“ATP”). Founded in 1975, ATP is a group of companies that
collectively are a leading manufacturer and distributor of energy-efficient
vertical turbine and submersible pumps primarily serving agricultural, municipal
and industrial markets both domestically and globally. During 2011, ATP had
approximately $15 million in revenue from sales of its products through its
Lubbock, Texas headquarters and two other locations in Houston, Texas and
Fresno, California.
ITT Corporation has dropped from the top of the leader board when it divested
its Xylem companies. But it is growing again. It has signed an agreement to
acquire Joh. Heinr Bornemann GmbH. Bornemann Pumps is a global provider of
highly engineered pumps and systems for the oil and gas industry.
Headquartered in Germany, Bornemann Pumps has a strong international installed
base of multiphase pumping systems for the oil and gas market. The company also
serves the industrial, food and pharmaceutical sectors. Founded in 1853,
Bornemann has a solid record of growth with estimated fiscal 2012 revenue of
€115 million and employs more than 550 employees globally.
Taco, Inc., of Cranston, RI, has purchased Hydroflo Pumps of Fairview, Tenn.
Taco recently dedicated a $20-million addition to its headquarters in Cranston.
The company, which has sales of $200 million a year, employs about 500 people,
the vast majority at the facility in Cranston, with other workers in Fall River,
Mass. and Ontario, Canada. It makes valves, pumps, tanks and electronics
for heating and cooling. Hydroflo is a manufacturer of vertical and submersible
turbine driven pumps. Hydroflo also operations in Culver, Ind., Marion, Ark.,
Grand Island, Neb, Brownfield, Texas and Fresno, Calif.
CRI Pumps, a Coimbatore, India-based manufacturer and exporter of pumps,
recently signed a business transfer agreement with Pumps & Process Systems of
the U.K. Chief Executive Officer of CRI Chaitanya Koranne said that CRI
would shift the industrial pumping solutions manufacturing facility of Pumps &
Process Systems in the U.K. to Coimbatore soon. CRI Pumps’ annual turnover
in 2011-2012 was Rs. 850 crore ($160 million), which was expected to increase to
Rs. 1,000 crore this year. Nearly 20 percent of the turnover last year was from
exports, and it was expected to go up substantially with the acquisition of the
U.K. company. Pumps and Process Systems had a strong presence in sectors
such as mining and CRI would be able to tap the opportunities in these areas.
Xylem, the current # l pump supplier has acquired privately held Heartland Pump
Rental & Sales, Inc. for approximately $29 million. Heartland Pump,
headquartered in Carterville, Illinois, has been a strong business partner with
Godwin in dewatering pump rental, services and systems design since 1995. Godwin
is part of the Xylem portfolio. Heartland Pump employs approximately one
hundred people with branches in Evansville, Indiana; Horn Lake, Mississippi; and
Nashville, Tennessee.
The Liebherr Group has acquired concrete pump manufacturer Waitzinger, which is
based in Neu-Ulm, Germany. Waitzinger Baumaschinen was founded in 1991 and
employs a staff of nearly sixty. It specializes in the development and
production of truck-mounted concrete pumps, trailer concrete pumps and truck
mixer concrete pumps. These products will now also be distributed via Liebherr's
international sales and service organization.
There is likely to be a continuation of globalization and consolidation of the
international pump industry in the coming years.
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Renewable Energy Briefs
Northern Power Systems Turbines Weather the Challenge of Hurricane Speed Winds
With turbines operating in extreme wind regimes such as the Caribbean and
northern Scotland, Northern Power Systems announced that its fleet of gearless
turbines that experience hurricane-speed winds has achieved 1 million run time
hours, all without incident. That is equivalent to a cumulative 114 years of
continuous, safe, high-performance operation.
As a testament to the design and engineering behind Northern Power turbines, all
74 units in the path of Hurricane Sandy when it blasted through in November 2012
were undamaged by the high winds. Once conditions returned to normal, each
turbine started generating electricity again.
SolarCity, Forest City Team to Install Solar on up to 6.500 Homes in Project at
Navy, Marine Corps Bases in Hawai’i
Construction has started on the first phase of a massive solar project by Forest
City Military Communities and SolarCity® to provide solar electricity to 6,500
military family residences at Ohana Military Communities (OMC), which serves
Navy Region Hawaii and Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The latest SolarStrong™ project
is scoped for a planned 24 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity, which would
make it the largest SolarCity has undertaken to date. SolarCity and Forest City
have finished installing the first 700 kilowatts of solar capacity at Marine
Corps Base Hawaii, and will soon initiate the first installations on Navy Region
Hawaii.
Primarily financed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the new project at Marine
Corps Base Hawaii and Navy Region Hawaii is expected to reduce Hawaii’s
dependence on the imported oil it uses to produce the majority of its
electricity.
Petroleum Development Oman and GlassPoint Commission the Middle East’s First
Solar EOR Project
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the largest producer of oil and gas in Oman,
and GlassPoint Solar, the global leader in solar enhanced oil recovery,
announced the successful commissioning of the Middle East’s first solar enhanced
oil recovery (EOR) project. By harnessing the sun’s energy with GlassPoint’s
Enclosed Trough technology, the solar EOR project produces a daily average of 50
tons of emissions-free steam that feeds directly into existing thermal EOR
operations at PDO’s Amal West field in Southern Oman. The 7 MW system is in
regular operation and recently passed its first performance acceptance test
since coming online, exceeding contracted steam output by 10 percent
GlassPoint’s unique Enclosed Trough design encloses parabolic mirrors inside a
glasshouse structure, protecting the solar collectors from harsh conditions of
high wind, dust, dirt, sand and humidity common to Middle East oilfields. The
glasshouse enclosure enables the use of ultra-light, low-cost reflective
materials and proven automated washing equipment, further reducing costs.
GlassPoint steam generators are designed to use the same low-quality boiler
water as once-through steam generators, the industry’s current standard,
eliminating the need for costly water pretreatment.
Kroger Unveils a Clean Energy Production System Powered by Food Waste
The Kroger Co. has unveiled a clean energy production system that will convert
food that can't be sold or donated into clean energy to help power its
Ralphs/Food 4 Less Compton distribution center.
The anaerobic conversion system will process more than 55,000 tons of organic
food waste into renewable energy annually and provide power for the over 650,000
square foot distribution center. By diverting that food waste —the equivalent of
150 tons per day — the system will also reduce area truck trips by more than
500,000 miles each year.
The Kroger Recovery System utilizes anaerobic digestion, to transform unsold
organics and onsite food-processing effluent into renewable biogas. This biogas
is then turned into power for onsite operations. The process is carried
out in an enclosed, oxygen-free environment, which means the process takes up
less space and generates no odors. The system will provide enough
renewable biogas to offset more than 20 percent of the energy demand of the
Ralphs/Food 4 Less distribution center.
Alterra Power and EDC Complete Joint Venture Agreement for Geothermal Assets in
Chile and Peru
Alterra Power Corp. announced the completion of a joint venture agreement with
Energy Development Corporation (EDC) for the development of Alterra's Mariposa
geothermal project in Chile plus three geothermal concessions held by Alterra in
Peru. The agreement calls for EDC to earn a 70 percent interest by funding 100
percent of the next $58.3 million in project expenditures at Mariposa, and $8
million in project expenditures on the Peruvian concessions. Advancement of
individual projects will occur under separate shareholder agreements which will
follow the commercial terms of the joint venture agreement. Such agreements are
expected to be executed later in 2013 subject to final documentation and project
evaluation by EDC.
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Headlines for the May 24, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1126 – May 24, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
GAS/OIL – WORLD
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
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G. Edison Holland New Head of Mississippi Power
§
MHI completes acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Power Systems
§
MET Licensee has Wet FGD Award in China
§
Coal regains Some Electric Generation Market Share from Natural Gas
§
GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid
Treatment Market
§
Market to Remove Mercury from Air is Complex
HOT TOPIC HOUR
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“Power Generation in Europe” is the Hot Topic for Thursday,
June 6, 2013
At 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 6, the Power-Gen Europe show will have ended
and, since it will be 5 p.m. in Vienna, most participants will be traveling
home. Last year we conducted a webinar from Cologne. This year we will be
coordinating activities from our offices. Bob McIlvaine will be reporting
and will invite contributions from speakers and exhibitors.
There will only be four presentations on air pollution control at the
conference. One will be on SNCR for coal-fired power plants. Another will
be on SCR and a third on fluid bed scrubbers. One presentation will cover FGD
design for coal-fired boilers. There will be a water treatment paper by Nalco.
There are more than 20 exhibitors with an air pollution focus, so we will be
reviewing some of their products. There will be a few water treatment
exhibitors. Ovivo, who was a presenter last week in our hot topic hour, will be
displaying its water intake products.
Much of the focus will be on the future of coal in Europe. There has been a real
turnaround recently as the cost of coal-fired power has proven to be
considerably less than gas. A number of the conference papers are devoted to
carbon capture. On the other hand, there is little evidence that many commercial
power plants will be built in the foreseeable future. So what is the
outlook?
To register for the Hot Topic Hour on June 6, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. (DST), click
on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.
McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine
hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control
subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either
Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Tracking System. The
cost is $125.00
for non-subscribers.
Market Intelligence
webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00
for non-subscribers.
|
2013 |
|
Date |
Subject |
|
June 6 |
Report from Power-Gen Europe
(update on regulations, speaker
and exhibitor highlights) |
Power |
June 13 |
Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel
Feed, Metering and Combustion in
Boilers |
Power |
June 20 |
Dry Sorbent Injection and
Material Handling for APC
|
Power |
June 27 |
Power Generation Forecast for
Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables |
Market Intelligence |
July 11 |
New Developments in Power Plant
Air Pollution Control |
Power |
July 18 |
Measurement and Control of HCl |
Power |
July 25 |
GHG Compliance Strategies,
Reduction Technologies and
Measurement |
Power |
August 1 |
Update on Coal Ash and CCP
Issues and Standards |
Power |
August 8 |
Improving Power Plant Efficiency
and Power Generation |
Power |
August 15 |
Control and Treatment Technology
for FGD Wastewater |
Power |
August 22 |
Status of Carbon Capture and
Storage Programs and Technology |
Power |
August 29 |
Pumps for Power Plant Cooling
Water and Water Treatment
Applications |
Power |
Sept. 5
|
Fabric Selection for Particulate
Control
|
Power |
Sept. 19 |
Air Pollution Control for Gas
Turbines |
Power |
Sept. 26 |
Multi-Pollutant Control
Technology
|
Power |
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