Instrumentation for Air, Gas, Water, Liquids (forecasts, market shares and
growth segments) is Hot Topic Hour on October 25,
2012
Markets for air and water instrumentation in the power industry is the hot topic
for October 25, 2012. The $1.7 billion annual market for air and water
monitoring and control instrumentation in power plants will be analyzed and
opportunities discussed in the McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour at 10:00 a.m. (Central
time) on October 25th.
Air and water monitoring revenues include sales of laboratory, continuous and
portable instruments and systems. These include process gases and liquids as
well as exhaust gases and liquid waste streams. The values reported include
physical properties such as flow and temperature as well as chemical
constituents such as ammonia or cadmium.
Power is the largest industrial user of air and water monitoring equipment.
These plants extract more water than any other industry and discharge more gases
to the atmosphere than all the other industries combined. Process gas
instrumentation includes measurement of oxygen, carbon monoxide, temperature and
flow. It also includes related measurements such as fuel flow.
Laboratory equipment is also included. Often a solid e.g. filter catch is
measured to determine the constituents in the air or gas. Where the analysis of
the raw material is necessary for pollution control purposes, this is also
included. Many regulations affecting pollution control in coal-fired power
plants require measuring the sulfur or mercury in the coal being burned.
In the cement industry, the metals are measured in the limestone feed as well as
in the stack gas.
The power industry in Asia is investing more than the rest of the world combined
in boosting electrical capacity. The trend is away from laboratory testing and
towards continuous monitoring.
Market shares and strength of major players will be also reviewed. Thermo Fisher
is the largest supplier of air and water monitoring instrumentation to power
plants. The company has aggressively expanded into the developing markets and
even has its international air research center in China.
This session is free for subscribers, but is $400 for non-subscribers. However,
this fee can then be applied to the Air and Water Monitoring Market
report subscription.
For more information on the session,
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 Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is
$125.00 for non-subscribers.
Market Intelligence
webinars are free to McIlvaine market report.
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2012 |
|
DATE |
SUBJECT |
|
October 25 |
Instrumentation for air, gas,
water, liquids (forecasts,
market shares, growth segments). |
Market Intelligence |
November 1 |
Cooling Towers and Cooling Water
Issues |
Power |
November 8 |
FGD Scrubber Components |
Power |
November 15 |
Dampers and Expansion Joints for
Coal-fired and Gas Turbine Power
Plants |
Power |
November 29 |
Catalyst Selection for NOx
and Other Gases |
Power |
December 6 |
Boiler Feed and Cooling Water
Treatment |
Power |
December 13 |
Co-firing Sewage Sludge, Biomass
and Municipal Waste |
Power |
|
2013 |
|
January 10 |
Update on Oxy-fuel Combustion |
Power |
January 17 |
Production of Fertilizer and
Sulfuric Acid at Coal-fired
Power Plants
|
Power |
January 24 |
Gypsum Dewatering |
Power |
January 31 |
Filter media (forecasts and
market drivers for media used in
air, gas, liquid, fluid
applications, both mobile and
stationary). |
Market Intelligence |
February 7 |
Valves for Power Plants, Boilers
and Water Treatment Facilities |
Power |
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Here are the Headlines for the October 12, 2012 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1096 – October 12, 2012
Table of Contents
COAL – US
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Hoot Lake Coal-fired Power Plant will stay in operation through 2020
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Ottumwa 726 MW Power Plant will be upgraded by B&W and Burns & McDonnell
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EPA approves Texas' Air Permitting Program
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Breen Energy Solutions wins Sorbent Injection Contracts
COAL – WORLD
GAS/OIL / US
GAS/OIL WORLD
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Myanmar and South Korean Companies to build Gas-fired Power Plant
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Siemens to upgrade Two Gas-fired Power Plants in Argentina
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Tokyo Gas and Showa Shell to add Gas-fired Unit at Ohgishima Power Plant
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TNB wins Bid to develop Combined Cycle Power Plant in Prai, Penang, Malaysia
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Wärtsilä-led Consortium awarded Contract to build 573 MW Tri-fuel Power Plant in
Jordan
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ABB wins $65 Million in Orders in support of Gas-fired Power Plants in Iraq
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Shell (Philippines) to supply Meralco’s 1,200 Gas-fired Power Plant with
Liquefied Natural Gas
CO2
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
HOT TOPIC HOUR
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click on:
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Billion Dollar Annual Market for Mercury Reduction
Suppliers of hardware and consumables to reduce mercury from stack gases will
benefit from a world market which will grow over the next decade from less than
$200 million/yr to over $1 billion/yr. This is the prediction in the McIlvaine
Mercury Air Reduction Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The market for mercury control for waste-to-energy plants is growing steadily
and there are few variables which could drastically alter the forecasts.
However, the waste-to-energy market is small in comparison to the power plant
market. This market is much more difficult to predict.
The market for mercury control in coal-fired power plants is subject to major
variables including:
·
Timing
·
Approach
Timing:
Some U.S. power plants are already reducing mercury emissions based on state
regulations and on a federal subsidy for refined coal. Regulations
requiring mercury reduction by all power plants has been promulgated, but there
are some delays in implementation. Similar regulations have also been
promulgated for industrial boilers and cement plants. But they are also subject
to some uncertainties.
Regulations in other countries are under consideration, but none have as yet
promulgated regulations which would require extensive mercury reduction.
Approach:
The technology envisioned by U.S. EPA is primarily activated carbon injection
combined with fabric filters. This would entail a capital investment for
U.S. utilities, industrial boilers and cement plants of over $1 billion. It
would also require annual activated carbon purchases of more than $600 million.
In anticipation of this large market for activated carbon a number of suppliers
have increased capacity.
An alternative to this approach is the use of halogenated compounds to convert
the mercury to a soluble form which can be captured in downstream scrubbers.
This approach now appears to be sufficiently efficient and economical to be
applied to many of the eastern bituminous coal-fired boilers.
Bromine has proven to be a better halogen than chorine for this application.
There is now competition among three large bromine companies to capture a share
of the market. The companies are ICl, Albemarle and Chemtura.
Chemtura has invested more than $22 million in recent years to optimize its
bromine facilities in Arkansas. Chemtura also obtains bromine from a site near
the Dead Sea in the Middle East.
Longer term, China could become the largest market for mercury reduction
chemicals. This will create an import opportunity.The
supply of bromine in China has declined significantly of late due to the faster
than expected decline in manufacturing by Chinese companies.
Bromine manufacturing in China borders on economically unfeasible levels because
the concentration of bromine fell from 0.3 grams per liter to 0.2-0.18 grams per
liter, compared to 10-12 grams per liter in the Dead Sea.
For more information on Mercury Air Reduction Markets, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n056.
World Market for Dust Collector Bags to Exceed $2.7 Billion Next Year
Operators of dust collectors will spend $2.7 billion for bags and cartridges in
2013. Industries in East Asia will account for 44 percent of the total.
This is the latest finding in World Fabric Filter and Element Market
published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Millions)
World Region |
2013 |
Africa |
67
|
CIS |
91 |
East Asia |
1,233
|
Eastern Europe |
63 |
Middle East |
91 |
NAFTA |
448
|
South & Central America |
171
|
West Asia |
182
|
Western Europe |
361
|
Total |
2,707 |
China will be a major purchaser of bags due to its large cement production.
Cement plants are presently the largest users of bags. This is likely to change
over the next few years as power plants switch from electrostatic precipitation
to fabric filtration. Presently less than five percent of the coal-fired power
plants in the world utilize fabric filters.
New power plant regulations in the U.S. will force many operators to switch to
fabric filters to obtain the very low emission levels dictated by regulations to
reduce air toxics such as cadmium and lead.
There are a number of developing technologies which will also impact the market.
The trend toward cartridges instead of tubular bags will accelerate. The
development of nano fibers will increasingly result in higher efficiencies for a
given energy input. The use of membrane composites (membrane film on a non-woven
substrate) will increase due to efficiency and cake release benefits.
The biggest potential change could come from the development of ceramic filter
media which will allow dust separation at temperatures of 850oF. The
typical power plant uses an inefficient rotary heat exchanger in the dirty gas
stream due to the lack of an option to reliably remove the dust at this high
temperature. The ceramic filter will allow much more efficient heat
exchange. Several companies are now offering ceramic filter media. Clear
Edge has taken this development a step further with the introduction of a
ceramic filter with imbedded catalyst to both remove dust and reduce NOx.
This combination device promises to substantially change the approach to air
pollution control in power plants.
For more information on World Fabric Filter and Element Market, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n021
Large Scale Solar Projects Create Jobs
Large scale solar projects bring lots of jobs. McIlvaine’s Renewable
Energy Projects and Update provides information on these projects.
CPS Energy and OCI Solar Power Launch Largest Municipality Owned Mega Solar
Project in San Antonio, Bringing at Least 800 Jobs
A landmark deal signed in July by CPS Energy and OCI Solar Power will result in
the construction of 400 MW of solar energy, bring several manufacturing
facilities that produce solar panel components, and create 805 jobs in San
Antonio.
CPS Energy President and CEO Doyle Beneby inked the contract with Tony Dorazio,
president of OCI Solar Power, making the 25-year power purchase and economic
development agreement official. This unique, first-of-its kind,
manufacturing-to-generation contract follows several months of talks between
negotiation teams with the utility and its most recent New Energy Economy
partners. The 400 MW San Antonio project is the largest in the nation among
municipal utilities, and will catapult Texas into the top five U.S. solar
producing states.
Providing enough electricity for nearly 70,000 local households – or about 10
percent of San Antonio’s customers – the final deal also will deliver:
OCI Solar Power created a consortium of partners to deliver 400 MW of solar to
CPS Energy throughout the 25-year life of the agreement. According to the
contract, members of the OCI Solar Power consortium will build facilities in San
Antonio to produce components for solar power generation such as modules,
trackers and inverters used to supply the North American market. The anchor
manufacturer in the consortium is Nexolon American LLC, a subsidiary of Nexolon,
an established global leader in manufacturing components used in solar panels.
Nexolon America LLC played a pivotal role in making the deal a success through
its commitment to investing $100 million in building a high-tech manufacturing
facility and locating its North American headquarters in San Antonio, in total
creating over 400 jobs. All combined, the consortium’s efforts on this project
will result in more than 800 long-term jobs in addition to the jobs that will be
necessary to construct the manufacturing facilities and the solar energy plants.
Aqua Caliente Reaches 200 MW Milestone
NRG Energy, Inc., MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, Inc. announced that the 290
MWAC Agua Caliente solar project, currently under construction in
Yuma County, AZ, is more than two-thirds complete and delivering more than 200
MW to the electric grid. The Agua Caliente project is the world’s largest
operating photovoltaic power plant.
The facility, which is owned by NRG and MidAmerican Solar, employs a daily
average of 400 to 450 workers during the construction period. Expected to be
completed in 2014, the project uses industry-leading solar plant controls and
forecasting capabilities to integrate its output with the power grid. The Agua
Caliente project is being financed with support from a loan guarantee from the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office.
First Solar designed and is constructing the project using its advanced
thin-film photovoltaic modules and will operate and maintain the facility for
NRG and MidAmerican Solar. Pacific Gas and Electric Company has a long-term
power purchase agreement for the project’s generation.
First Solar to Develop 139 MW Campo Verde Solar Project
First Solar, Inc. announced it is developing the 139 MWAC Campo Verde
Solar Project, located near El Centro in Imperial County, CA.
Campo Verde is expected to start construction in the third quarter of 2012 and
be completed in 2013, creating about 250 construction jobs. San Diego Gas &
Electric Company (SDG&E) will purchase the project’s output under a 20-year
power purchase agreement, which was approved on May 24, 2012 by the California
Public Utilities Commission.
First Solar will construct the project using its advanced thin film PV modules
that generate clean, renewable energy with no emissions, waste or water
consumption during operation. The project will generate enough electricity to
power approximately 50,000 average California homes, displacing 80,000 metric
tons of CO2 per year, the equivalent of taking 15,000 cars off the
road.
The Campo Verde project is jointly owned by First Solar and U.S. Solar Holdings
LLC, but First Solar has contractual rights to acquire 100 percent ownership
interest and is in the process of completing its acquisition.
For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update
please visit
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