Here are the Headlines for the October 21, 2011 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1047 – October 21, 2011
Table of Contents
COAL – US
House votes to give States Control over Coal Ash
APC at Pawnee could reach more than $300 Million
COAL – WORLD
Foster Wheeler awarded Contract for Four CFB Boilers for Essar Power Salaya in
India
Promac wins Balance of Plant Order for 125 MW Power Plant in Senegal
Ayrshire Power Project in UK Unlikely
Australia seeks to close 2,000 MW of Coal-fired Generation
600 MW Davao del Sur and 135 MW Trans-Asia Oil Power Projects have COEs
Serbia signs Deal with Chinese Consortium for 744 MW Power Plant
GAS / OIL – WORLD
Tokyo Electric to add 500 MW Gas-fired Unit at Kawasaki by Next Summer
Arabian Bemco to convert Riyadh PP 10 to Combined Cycle
BIOMASS
Enviva to supply Wood Chips for Coal-fired Power Plant Conversions to Biomass
Fortum supplies Burners for Biomass Gasification Co-firing at Vaasa Power
Plant in Finland
NUCLEAR
Southern Co. moves closer to Approval for New Nuclear Power Units at Vogtle
Romania, China Guangdong discuss Two New 700 MW Nuclear Power Units
BUSINESS
YARA acquires Petro Miljö
Volta River Authority (Ghana) to develop 200 MW Kpong Power Plant
Gas Turbine Capacity Growth to Exceed Coal but at Far Lower Investment
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“Multi-emissions Control” is the Hot Topic Hour” on Thursday, October 27, 2011
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click
on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.
OCTOBER 2011
Separation and Control are the $100 Billion Segments in the $380 Billion Fluid
Treatment and Control Market
With pump companies buying fan and filter companies, the perception of a broader
fluid treatment and control market is taking hold with suppliers and investors.
The McIlvaine Fluid/Gas Treatment and Control World Markets report forecasts
$380 billion in revenues for this technology in 2011 growing to $400 billion in
2012.
The market can be segmented in many different ways. McIlvaine has generated more
than 300,000 forecasts by product, industry and country. Senior management and
investors have the need to view the market broadly. The McIlvaine
CircularSolution™ displays the forecasts from the top down. There are five
concentric circles representing the market. The 20 radii divide the market more
specifically. The intersections of the circles and radii identify 100 market
segments. The broadest view is with the five technologies for treatment of air,
gases and liquids.
Technology $ Billions 2011
Modify $ 30
Move $ 85
Control $ 100
Monitor $ 55
Separate $ 110
Total $ 380
The market can also be segmented by 10 fluid types and by 10 applications. The
projected revenues for these radii are shown in the following CircularSolution™:
For more information on Fluid/Gas Treatment and Control: World Markets, click
on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71
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Transmission Brings Renewable Energy to Customers
Transmission lines are being built to accommodate the renewable energy being
developed around the world. McIlvaine reports on these activities in Renewable
Energy Updates and Projects.
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The Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) announced that Belgian transmission company,
Elia, is joining the effort to create a new offshore electric transmission
backbone system along the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. east coast. The Elia
Group operates transmission systems in both Belgium and Germany that, among
other things, accommodate large amounts of wind energy.
As an investor and a provider of consulting services to the project, Elia's
participation brings the benefit of their first-hand experience working to
develop and construct the European Super Grid, an initiative of similar
importance, size and scope to the AWC.
The Elia Group began their offshore experience by building the first offshore
HVDC project in Europe. Pulling from this experience, the Elia Group is now
playing a major role in the construction of the North and Baltic Sea portion of
the European Super Grid, a transmission network that will interconnect Europe
and regions around its borders with a high-voltage direct current power grid.
The European grid concept is designed to incorporate considerable renewable
energy resources, particularly wind energy, and reinforce security of supply.
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ABB has won a contract with a Spanish company Isolux Corsan, main contractor for
the Xingu and Macapá power transmission lines, to provide substation automation
and telecommunications systems for six new substations in Brazil.
The project is part of a Brazilian government scheme to connect the Amazon
region in north-eastern Brazil to the power system serving the rest of the
country. This is one of the largest transmission projects to be carried out in
Brazil in recent years.
The Linhão, or “Big Line” project will ultimately connect the cities of Manaus,
the capital of Amazonas state, and Macapá, the capital of Amapá state, with
Tucuruí hydropower plant, Brazil’s second largest hydroelectric plant, which has
a generation capacity of 8,370 MW. The new line will help to reduce local
dependence on thermal power plants and diesel-powered generators in 27 of the
towns and cities along the left bank of the Amazon River.
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ScottishPower has recently submitted proposals to the energy regulator Ofgem
outlining £3 billion of planned investments on its high voltage transmission
electricity network in Scotland over the next 10 years. Projects will include
the connection of up to 5 GW of renewable energy, helping Scotland to achieve
its 2020 carbon reduction targets, and extensive upgrades to the electricity
grid links between England and Scotland.
The company has also said that this investment in Scotland will create around
1500 new jobs.
Under the proposals, the company would be able to connect up to 5 GW of new
renewable energy projects to the grid in the ScottishPower area and around 11 GW
across the whole of Scotland. In total across Scotland this will accommodate
renewable generation capacity equivalent to four times the size of Longannet
power station in Fife, currently the largest electricity generator in Scotland.
Included within the submission are a number of strategically important major
projects that the company plans to deliver in the next decade, including
increasing the transmission capacity between Scotland and England to at least
6.6 GW, allowing the transfer of nearly 3 times more electricity than is
currently possible.
ScottishPower will also invest heavily to maintain the reliability of its
transmission network, which is over 99 percent reliable at present. To ensure
this continued high performance, the company will upgrade nearly a fifth of its
substation equipment and replace or refurbish approximately 800 circuit km of
overhead line.
*****
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved the transmission line route as filed
by Prairie Wind Transmission with modifications based on proposals by some
landowners along and near the route. Prairie Wind proposed its route to the KCC
after extensive consultation with landowners, state and federal environmental
and wildlife agencies and environmental groups. The KCC approved a route that
incorporated the best suggestions proposed by area landowners, some of which
lower the estimated cost of the project.
The 110-mile double-circuit 345 kilovolt high-capacity transmission line, part
of the project commonly referred to as the Y-plan, will begin near Colwich
connecting to Medicine Lodge and then continuing south to the Kansas-Oklahoma
border.
Prairie Wind will begin working with landowners along the route this summer and
fall to obtain rights of way. Construction will begin mid-2012. The line is
scheduled to be in service by the end of 2014.
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
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Try the fruit in the Global Knowledge Orchard
You can enter the Global Knowledge Orchard various ways. One is by application.
Here are relevant links:
• 221111 - Hydroelectric Power Generation
• 221112 - Fossil Fuel
• 221113 - Nuclear Electric Power Generation *
• 221119 - Other Electric Power Generation
You can enter by product. Here is a link to Electrodeionization:
• Electrodeionization
Siemens says electrodeionization could replace RO as the main technology for
desalination. Nalco is working with EDI to separate the sugars in cellulosic
ethanol. There is a link to a very interesting InterWEBview™ with Michael Snow,
President of Snowpure. EDI is replacing ion exchange in many power plants.
Snowpure is selling lots of EDI modules in China.
You can view recordings as follows:
Webinar Recording
YouTube
The YouTube recording on the Wahlco Urea to ammonia system continues to draw
about two views per day in the Chinese version. This is very interesting due to
the lack of access to YouTube in China.
Through the webinar recording link you can view many of our hot topic sessions
which are on subjects other than air quality. Here is one example. Just click on
the “Additional Information” and enter the password: hth 192 in order to view
the session.
Title: Material Handling in Coal Plants - Hot Topic Hour February 10, 2011
Speakers addressed the various material handling systems and equipment available
for all of the materials used in a coal-fired power plant, the advantages or
disadvantages of each, their operating experience with the equipment, potential
problems to avoid during design and operation and new technology available to
improve performance while reducing energy consumed and maintenance requirements.
Password: hth192
Additional Webinar Recording Information
Person Information
Application Sequencing
221112 - Fossil Fuel Coal-Fired 燃煤 Air Quality 空气质量 FGD 烟气脱硫 Reagent Preparation
反应物准备
221112 - Fossil Fuel Coal-Fired 燃煤 Coal Handling
221112 - Fossil Fuel Coal-Fired 燃煤 Flyash
Company Product Process Publication Date Text Descriptor
• Aumund Group
• FLSmidth
• Pennsylvania Crusher
• Semi-Bulk Systems • Conveyor
• Mechanical Conveyor
• Pneumatic Conveyor
• Reagent Preparation
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