November 2013 - Power Air Quality Insights 134

If you will be attending the Chem Show, you can participate in discussions on many subjects. If you are an exhibitor, also be sure we have the best reference material. If you are a visitor, make sure we have your e-mail and contacts for networking.

Route maps and mobile devices are allowing exhibition visitors to make much better use of their time. McIlvaine is integrating these tools as part of an ambitious effort to allow flow and treatment purchasers access to much more comprehensive information. The entire concept is explained at:

At two shows last week visitors could quickly determine who they wanted to see and make advance contact to ensure a trip to the stand was worthwhile.

The Chem Show is being held December 10-12, 2013 in NYC. The route maps will be particularly useful to attendees because the show covers a number of different industries which are only vaguely related under the chemical industry umbrella.

Some flow and treatment needs are unique and some are common. Power, intake water treatment, cooling water treatment and HVAC air treatment are common. However, the wastewater, air exhausts and process flow and treatment needs are likely to be substantially different from one plant to another.

There are hundreds of different categories of plants under the chemical industry umbrella used by the Chem Show organizers. McIlvaine has a two record identifier for each shown at: Application

The Chem Show industries can be broadly divided into four main categories as shown below. There are significant numbers of exhibitors in each of nine product categories:

	Process Fluids/Gases and Wastewater				Common Processes
Product	Food /Beverage	Pharma- ceuticals Cosmetics	Organic, Petro Chemicals	Inorganic Chemicals	Power/ Cogen	Intake/ Cooling Water
Thermal Treatment
Scrubbers/
Adsorption/Recovery
Particulate Removal
Distillation/ Evaporation/ Heat Exchange
Pumps
Valves
Liquid-Solid Separation
Instrumentation

There will be a decision stop for each product in each of the vertical road maps. Discussion groups will also be encouraged and reported. Here is an example:

Chemical plants with boilers must meet the new MACT standards by 2016. Scrubbers and particulate upgrades will be needed at most plants burning coal. The route map will lead you to those exhibitors with solutions.

Participants will include xxx of KC on scrubbers, xxx of KC on precipitators xxx of XXX on scrubber nozzles xxx of xxx on stainless housing materials, xxx of xxx consulting on system design and MACT.

A number of influential magazines will have stands. Typically the key personnel are roaming and the stand is primarily to supply free samples. We will include mobile contacts for the roaming personnel and links to relevant articles in the publications related to specific decision stops.

Agrochemicals, soda ash, ammonium sulphate, ammonium chloride, citric acid, other chemicals

Krauss Maffei Supplies Three Systems to Zeneca Agrochemicals (McIlvaine newsletter)

If you are a supplier and want some content added, please provide it along with your contact information. If you are a visitor and would like to network on any of these subjects during the show, please indicate which decision stop and provide your mobile number and e-mail. Send these to: rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com. (Bob at: 847-784-0012)

Fossil and nuclear power plants will invest $790 billion on new equipment and repair parts in 2013. Fifty-six percent of the investment will be in coal-fired power plants. This is the latest finding in Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Technology	Units	Coal-fired		Nuclear		Gas Turbine
		Existing	New	Existing	New	Existing*	New*
Capacity	GW	2,300	100	474	20	1,300	100
Total Investment	$ Billions	240	200	100	80	70	100
Combined New and Existing	$ Billions	440		180		170

Despite the virtual moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the U.S., the rest of the world will spend $200 billion on new coal-fired power plants in 2014. This contrasts with only $100 billion for gas turbine systems. Repair parts and upgrades of existing coal-fired power plants will generate revenues of $240 billion. Chinese and U.S. power plants have major pollution control programs.

The future competition among these three major fuels will be shaped by a number of factors. The greatest variable is the quantity of shale gas which can be economically produced. The U.S. has potentially enough shale gas to meet present requirements for thirty years. China has even greater reserves, but they are located deeper and will be more expensive to extract. Furthermore, the Chinese shale gas industry is in its infancy. Even with its most ambitious plan, China’s gas production would only be eight percent of that in the U.S. in 2020.

The efforts to reduce greenhouse gases will virtually eliminate new coal-fired power plants as an option in certain countries. This sets up a chain of events whereby production of products requiring lots of energy input will be increased in countries which burn the cheaper coal. As a result, the fleet of world coal-fired power plants will keep growing.

Nuclear generation growth will also be highly regionalized. Some countries will not only avoid building new nuclear power plants, but will phase out existing ones. Other countries will be big investors in nuclear power. Nevertheless, this fuel option will continue to remain in third place far behind coal.

Operators of coal-fired power plants will spend $4.5 billion on new electrostatic precipitators in 2014 and $4 billion for upgrades and repairs. This is the latest forecast in the continually updated Electrostatic Precipitator World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Technology	Units	Coal-fired Power Plant Investment		Precipitator Expenditures
		Existing	New	Existing	New
Capacity	GW	2,300	100	2,200	90
Total Investment	$ Billions	240	200	4	4.5
Combined New and Existing	$ Billions	440		8.5

For the last decade, China has led the world in precipitator purchases. It is continuing to build new coal-fired power plants and for the present is investing tens of millions of dollars for precipitators at each power plant. However, new regulations limiting particulate emissions will very possibly force operators to purchase fabric filters instead of precipitators in the future.

It is not all bad news for precipitator suppliers. Upgrades to existing precipitators can make them much more efficient. So, while the new equipment market will stagnate in coming years, the market for upgrades and repairs will continue to steadily grow.

General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy announced a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.

When the project is operational, 58 percent of the plant’s energy needs will come from renewable energy, making Detroit-Hamtramck the top GM facility in the world by percentage of renewable energy used.

“We have 107 landfill-free facilities across the globe that recycle or reuse their waste, with some of it turned into energy,” said Rob Threlkeld, GM’s global manager of renewable energy. “It made sense to explore this option with DRE at Detroit-Hamtramck, given their quality work in helping us manage our energy use at some of our other GM plants.”

Detroit Renewable is able to process more than 1 million tons of municipal solid waste into electric power and steam while also recycling nearly 40,000 tons of metal annually.

The steam will travel 8,300 feet through a pipe originating at Detroit Renewable Power and ending at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant.

The steam pipe will provide 15.8 megawatts of renewable energy to the plant, which equates to 12 percent of GM’s overall goal of putting 125 megawatts of renewable energy into its energy portfolio by 2020.

Construction of the new steam line and associated energy infrastructure will begin later this month and become operational next spring.

Scuderi Group, Inc. and ECS Sign Agreement for Hydro Powered Generation and Energy Storage System

Scuderi Group, Inc. announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Agawam, MA-based environmental consultants ECS to build and install a combined heating and power (CHP) generation system with compressed air energy storage (CAES) capabilities in an effort to lower energy costs at its Nonotuck Mill property. This will be the first Scuderi Engine to be designed and built to utilize hydropower.

According to the agreement, Scuderi Group will build a CHP and energy storage unit to be installed at ECS's headquarters, a 150,000 square-foot revitalized mill property that also houses a dozen environmental-based businesses and organizations. Taking advantage of the adjacent Mill River, the system will be designed to provide heating and power. The energy storage capability will enable ECS to store power efficiently during the night, and then provide less costly electricity to during the day when the building's power demands are very high. The unit will also act as a backup generator.

The Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine incorporates a unique and highly efficient power generation and compressed air energy storage capability that combines the energy of the high-pressure compressed air with the kinetic energy of the fuel to create a significant efficiency gain. When applied to properties with large power demands, the system has the capability to reduce electricity consumption up to 20 percent.

Google & KKR Partner to Invest in Portfolio of Solar PV Projects from Developer Recurrent Energy

Google, KKR and Recurrent Energy announced that Google and KKR are making an investment in six solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities that are currently being developed and will be managed by Recurrent Energy. The solar facilities, located in California and Arizona, have a combined production capacity of approximately 106 megawatts (MW) and will provide clean electric power to local utilities and municipal offtakers under long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).

Capital for the projects was provided by equity investments from Google and KKR, as well as debt financing.

The three companies made a similar announcement in December of 2011, when Google and KKR invested in four utility-scale solar facilities near Sacramento, CA, developed by Recurrent Energy.

The solar facilities include five projects in Southern California and one in Arizona and will provide power to three offtakers, including Southern California Edison. In aggregate, the facilities will generate enough clean solar electricity to power over 17,000 U.S. homes. The six projects are expected to be operational by January 2014.

This is Google's 14th renewable energy investment; to date the company has committed over $1 billion to renewable energy across a wide range of technologies, from off-shore transmission to the world's largest wind and solar power projects.

ReneSola Ltd. announced it will deliver more than 178,000 PV modules, which will be used in a 53.5 MW project being developed by leading solar PV project developer, OCI Solar Power. The modules will be installed in a project named Alamo II in San Antonio and another upcoming Texas development approximately two hours west of San Antonio.

The multi-stage project will total 400 MW and provide power to CPS Energy, the municipal utility for the City of San Antonio, upon completion in 2016. A portion of the large-scale solar project will include ReneSola's 300W high-efficiency polycrystalline modules.

ITT’s Goulds Pumps Brand to Equip Stanford University Sustainability Program

Twenty-five large double-suction pumps from ITT's Goulds Pumps brand will provide Stanford University's innovative new energy facility with the high-efficiency pumping required by the Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI) program, a $438 million investment to enable the university to have one of the most energy-efficient power systems of any major research university in the world.

Three different Goulds Pumps brand models were selected by Stanford as part of a comprehensive district heating plan that will replace a current natural gas-powered cogeneration plant with an electricity-powered heat recovery plant. Studies have shown that the campus can recover up to 70 percent of the heat now discharged from the cooling system to meet at least 80 percent of simultaneous campus heating demands, significantly reducing fossil fuel and water use in the process.

Scheduled for completion in 2015, Stanford's facility will be key to reducing campus carbon emissions by up to 50 percent, lowering its water use by up to 18 percent and saving an estimated $300 million over the next 35 years. The 125,000 gross-square-foot facility will allow the university to regenerate the waste heat that the cogeneration plant discarded. Capturing and distributing the heat requires high-efficiency pumping systems and replacement of about 20 miles of piping across the campus.

“Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries” is the Free “Hot Topic Hour” on Thursday, December 5, 2013

On December 5, McIlvaine will offer a free Hot Topic Hour covering the potential for ROW to adopt the mercury control technologies developed to meet the MACT and MATS rules in the U.S. There are two segments which will be addressed:

The potential at power plants, industrial facilities, mines, waste-to-energy plants and other emission sources will be addressed. Particular attention will be paid to the large potential Chinese market in the utility power, industrial power and cement sectors.

U.S. based companies have developed technologies which are unique. So there is a rare opportunity to pursue the international markets without local competition. In order to assure that ROW understands the U.S. technology as well as its cost and performance advantages, McIlvaine is offering a free Mercury Decisions System to any power, cement, or industrial plant operator. The content of this system will be reviewed with attendees. Ramifications including the acceleration of regulations in other countries will also be discussed.

Other tools to help U.S. companies pursue this market will be covered. For example, a numerical system is used to identify potential purchasers. The reason is that there are multiple spellings of many non-English names and, therefore, uncertainty as to exactly who the prospect is.

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.

DATE	Non-Subscribers Cost	SUBJECT	Webinar Type
December 5, 2013	FREE	Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries	Power
December 12, 2013	$125.00	Update on Gasification Projects and Technology	Power
December 19, 2013	$125.00	Selecting FGD Scrubber Components	Power
January 9, 2014	$125.00	Air Preheaters & Heat Exchangers	Power
January 16, 2014	$125.00	Corrosion Issues and Materials for APC Systems	Power
January 23, 2014	$125.00	Co-Firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass and Municipal Waste	Power
January 30, 2014	$125.00	Impact of Ambient Air Quality Rules on Fossil Fueled Boilers and Gas Turbines	Power
February 6, 2014	$125.00	Review of EUEC	Power
February 13, 2014	$125.00	NOx Catalyst Performance on Mercury and SO3	Power
February 20, 2014	$125.00	CFB Technology and Clean Coal (Update on CFB Reactor Technology)	Power
February 27, 2014	$125.00	Dry FGD: Spray Dry vs. CFB vs. DSI	Power
March 6, 2014	$125.00	Update on IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle)	Power
March 13, 2014	$125.00	Update on Oxy-Fuel Combustion	Power
March 20, 2014	$125.00	Improving ESP Performance	Power
March 27, 2014	$125.00	Mercury Control and Removal	Power
April 3, 2014	$125.00	HRSG Design, Operation and Maintenance Considerations	Power
April 10, 2014	$125.00	Measurement and Control Instrumentation for Power Plants	Power
April 17, 2014	$125.00	Measurement and Control of PM_2.5	Power
April 24, 2014	$125.00	Status of Carbon-to-Liquid Projects and Technology	Power
May 1, 2014	$125.00	Renewable Energy, Status, Options, Technology Update	Power
May 8, 2014	$125.00	Valves for Power Plant Steam and Cooling Water	Power
May 15, 2014	$125.00	Water Treatment During Gas and Oil Production	Power
May 22, 2014	$125.00	Advances in Coal Blending	Power
May 29, 2014	$125.00	Clean Coal Technologies	Power
June 5, 2014	$125.00	Material Handling in Fossil Fueled Power Plants	Power
June 12, 2014	$125.00	Industrial Boiler MACT - Impact and Control Options	Power
June 19, 2014	$125.00	Multi-emissions Control Technologies	Power
June 26, 2014	$125.00	Next Generation of Coal Combustion Technologies	Power
July 10, 2014	$125.00	Compliance Strategies for PM_2.5

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