430 Companies and Projects Will Account For 41 Percent of Industrial Scrubber Purchases
Sales of industrial scrubbers will be $6.8 billion in 2015. Suppliers who focus on 433 purchasers, engineering firms and large projects will be addressing 41 percent of the total potential. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in N008 Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets.

The scope of the report includes both wet and dry scrubbers as well as carbon adsorbers and biofilters. More than 40 percent of the market totaling $3 billion is concentrated in a few industries. Of a total scrubber market of $500 million in oil and gas, $300 million can be identified with 40 companies and projects.

There are thousands of purchases of scrubbers. Many of the projects are quite small. However, 60 large companies and projects will address 20 percent of the chemical industry market of $80 million. Average purchases for the 50 will be $2.7 million creating an opportunity of $160 million.
In the “other industry” sector, 205 companies/projects have been identified whose purchases will average more than $9 million each. This includes large mining projects and steel complexes as well as the companies who own them.
There is a concentration among purchasers. For example, BASF will account for 1.8 percent of the scrubber purchases in the chemical sector. The top 10 chemical companies will account for 10 percent of the purchases. In the electronics sector, Samsung will be the leading purchaser. In the metals sector, ArcelorMittal which produces 6 percent of the world’s steel will be the leader.
In the oil and gas sector, five companies will account for 50 percent of the scrubber purchases. Ten engineering companies will be specifying or buying 30 percent of the scrubbers. There are some very large gas-to-liquids and refinery projects which will account for 20 percent of the scrubbers purchased for the sector. In many cases, the large purchasers are using the engineering firms who are designing the large projects, so there is an overlap. The result is that 40 companies and projects will account for scrubber purchases of $300 million.
Large prospects, OEMs and large projects comprise a big share of the market. It varies by industry. In the oil and gas industry, the large purchasers account for 50 percent of the market. The large OEMs are addressing 30 percent. The large projects also address 30 percent. There is overlap with some large projects also involving large OEMs and large purchasers. The result is that the combination addresses an adjusted 60 percent of the total. By contrast, pulp and paper is 40 percent.

It is recommended that scrubber suppliers create specific programs to address this combination of companies and projects. The relatively small number of large opportunities makes a proactive approach possible. McIlvaine has created a unique route to market by combining the detailed forecasting in N008 Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets with McIlvaine project tracking services.
For more information on contact Bob McIlvaine at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com.

Installation of Biogas Technology will Create Renewable Natural Gas at Smithfield Foods’ Ruckman Farm by 2016
Roeslein Alternative Energy recently announced the turnkey facility to create and inject large quantities of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) into the national grid system, created from one of the largest concentrations of finishing hogs in the Midwest, will be operational by mid-2016. Ruckman Farm is one of the nine Smithfield Foods Missouri hog production facilities involved in the largest livestock manure-to-energy project of its kind.
Phase One, which is nearly 50 percent complete, involves installation of impermeable covers and flare systems on the 88 existing manure lagoons at Smithfield Foods hog finishing farms in Northern Missouri.
Phase Two involves fabricating and installing technology to purify the biogas captured by the impermeable covers and developing an inter-connection to a natural gas pipeline operated by ANR, which transverses Ruckman Farm. RNG is projected to enter the pipeline in the summer of 2016.
Duke Energy in North Carolina has agreed to purchase a portion of the RNG to help meet clean energy requirements for power generation.
The hog manure from the project will produce approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet of pipeline quality RNG, or the equivalent of 17 million gallons of diesel fuel annually.
Details of biogas projects are included in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Projects and Update.
For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/Renewable_Energy_Projects_Brochure/renewable_energy_projects_brochure.htm
“Hot Topic Hour” November 12, 2015 to Focus on Latest Issues and Innovations in Dry Scrubbing
This will be a free webinar to recommend updates to a power point presentation of 60 slides covering a range of options and issues related to dry scrubbing. The revised presentation and recording will be subsequently available to McIlvaine subscribers and to any end user.
The dry scrubbing option is being taken by many operators of power plants, incinerators, kilns and furnaces. There are many issues and innovations that need to be addressed by decision makers. These will be summarized and discussed in a 90 minute recorded webinar.
One of the decisions is the type of dry scrubber that is best. Originally SDA was the main option. Now CDS is popular. DSI with the more reactive sorbents has become an option even when higher efficiency is required. The catalytic filter with DSI promises one stop shopping. Combinations such as DSI and SDA are also an option.
The dry scrubber is necessarily part of a multi pollutant removal system that addresses particulate, acid gases and toxic metals. As a result, the evaluation of the impact of the dry scrubber on the removal pollutants such as mercury is important. The changing regulations in the U.S., China and the EU all need to be addressed.
Solid waste is an issue. Can the sorbent/acid/ash combination be used as construction materials? What about leaching of toxic metals? The loss of flyash and gypsum revenues need to be evaluated. The benefits of lower water use and elimination of wastewater are also important
There are many process factors. One is the sulfur content of the fuel versus the required efficiency. Another is the temperature of the air leaving the heat exchanger and the potential for DSI ahead of the air heater to allow greater heat recovery.
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McIlvaine Hot Topic Hours and Recordings
McIlvaine webinars offer the opportunity to view the latest presentations and join discussions while sitting at your desk. Hot Topic Hours cater to the end users as well as suppliers while the Market Updates cater to the suppliers and investors. Since McIlvaine records and provides streaming media access to these webinars there is a treasure trove of value only a click away. McIlvaine webinars are free to certain McIlvaine service subscribers. There is a charge for others. Hot Topic Hours are free to owner/operators. Sponsored webinars provide insights to particular products and services. They are free. Recordings can be immediately viewed from the list provided below.
DATE UPCOMING HOT TOPIC HOUR UPCOMING MARKET UPDATES
November 12, 2015 Dry Scrubbing
Expansion of the dry scrubber decision guide for power plants,
incinerators, and other applications involving SDA, CFB and DSI.
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December 3, 2015
NOx Reduction
Decision guide to selection of SCR and SCR systems,
ammonia injection, reagents, catalysts for power plants
refineries, incinerators, chemical plants and other applications.
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