Review of the Utility MACT Rule Status and Comments is Hot Topic on Oct. 4,
2011
Unless EPA requests and receives an extension from the Federal District Court,
the Utility MACT will take effect 90 days after the date of promulgation,
presently scheduled for November 16, 2011, giving utilities three to four years
(if a utility is granted an extension) to comply. During the public comment
period that ended August 4th, many groups weighed in with strong opinions both
pro and con.
Utilities and their associations such as the Edison Electric Institute and
American Public Power Association predicted dire consequences and urged EPA to
delay or at least weaken the rule. Others such as the nuclear power industry and
those invested heavily in gas-fired power generation hail the rule as giving the
certainty needed to finally make correct investment decisions.
Some say that the MACT will really only impact those Electric Generating Units
(EGUs) over 40 years old that have so far escaped any significant control.
Others see a much broader impact leading to many more closures of coal-fired
EGUs that will cost jobs and directly impact manufacturers. The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) reported in a letter to the Senate that 81
gigawatts of generating capacity (8 percent of total current generation) is
very likely or likely to be subtracted by 2018 amid coal plant retirements
and downgrades. Along with the Cross State Air Pollution (transport) Rule
(CSAPR), the Utility MACT is projected to cause nearly 1.4 million job losses
and cost the utility industry up to 18 billion dollars a year for the next ten
years.
There has also been extensive discussion about errors in the methods that EPA
used to establish the emission limits and the approach EPA used. The proposed
Utility MACT used what is commonly called the Franken-MACT approach whereby
the final limits are the best achieved individually for each specific pollutant
at any source and not the best achieved at a single source considering all
pollutants. The industry claims that this has resulted in final emission limits
that no single EGU in existence can meet without extensive additional pollution
controls.
The big question now is how EPA will react to all of the comments that have been
submitted and what will be in the final rule making.
The following speakers will address the issues related to the impact of the
Utility MACT on fossil fueled power plant operators, the current status of the
MACT rule making, the worst case scenario of emissions limits and required
controls under the MACT. They will also discuss the key issues to be considered
when developing a strategy to achieve compliance with the MACT, control
technologies and equipment that can be utilized to achieve the expected
emissions limits imposed by the MACT and various other strategies that an
operator could adopt.
Carl V. Weilert, Principal Process Engineer at Burns & McDonnell
Brian Higgins, Vice-President for Technology at Nalco Mobotec, Inc., will
present Nalco Mobotec's View on the Proposed Utility MACT Rule". He will
discuss the proposed Utility MACT Rule, complicating factors, CSAPR coordination
and possible changes that may end up in the final rule. Dr. Higgins will also
discuss a compliance strategy that takes these issues into consideration.
Kasi Dubbs, Managing Consultant at Trinity Consultants, will summarize the
processes and methods that EPA used to set the emission limits for the Utility
MACT, with an emphasis on the processes and methods used to establish the MACT
floors. The presentation will review the data that serves as the basis for the
limits and describe EPAs analysis of the data. Potential shortcomings in EPAs
data analysis, as identified by a number of stakeholders during the public
comment period for the rule making, will be highlighted.
To register for this Hot Topic Hour on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
CDT, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.
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Top Notch Speakers at Air Quality Conference - Arlington, Virginia, October 24,
2011
More than 1000 years of air quality experience is represented in the speakers at
this biannual conference. They will be exchanging their ideas over various
topics which are challenging the industry. Because of the format there will be
ample time to engage them in direct conversations. If you need any contacts
ahead of time just call us.
Additional Exhibition Information
Aburn, Jr., George (Tad) - Maryland Department of the Environment
Adams, Patton - Norit Americas
Allen, Paul - Constellation Energy
Almond, James - Norit Americas
Anderson, Allyson - Office of U.S. Senator Bingham
Bachu, Stefan - Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Baer, Mitchell - U.S. DOE
Bailey, Marianne - U.S. EPA
Berndt, Michael - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Biermann, Joep - MinPlus-CDEM Group BV
Bissell, Jacob - CPS Energy
Bland, Alan - Western Research Institute
Blythe, Gary - URS Corp.
Brennan, Sean - U.S. Geological Survey
Bustard, Jean - ADA Environmental
Chang, Ramsay - Integrated Environmental Control
Chow, Judith - Desert Research Institute
Chu, P. - EPRI
Ciferno, Jared - DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL)
Coddington, Kipp - Mowrey Meezan Coddington Cloud, LLP
Cover, John - Southern Research Institute
Crynack, Robert - FMC Corporation
Culligan, Kevin - U.S. EPA
Currie, John - URS Corp.
Dene, C. - EPRI
Dickerman, Jim - Lhoist
Elliott, Philip - STEAG Energy Services
Finley, Robert - Advanced Energy Technology Initiative
Fisher, Kevin - Apogee Scientific
Fout, Timothy - DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL)
Goodman, Angela - DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL)
Gorecki, Charles - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Groenewold, Gerald - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Guthrie, George - DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL)
Harju, John - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Holton, Steve - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Honjo, Shintaro - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Johnson, Dennis - Fluor Enterprises
Johnson, Michael - GE Energy
Keiser, Bruce - Nalco Company
Kempka, Dick - The Climate Trust
Kietzer, Dan - SICK Process Automation
Kong, Yougen - Solvay Chemicals
Labatt, L. - CPS Energy
Lentz, Nick - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Lockert, Charles - Breen Energy Solutions
Machalek, Thomas - URS Corp.
Madsen, Karin - Haldor Topsoe
Marano, John - JM Energy Consulting
Martin, Christopher - Energy & Environmental Research Center
McCain, Joseph - Southern Research Institute
McCarthy, Gina - U.S. EPA
McLarnon, Christopher - Powerspan Corporation
McManus, John - American Electric Power Company
Melzer, Steve - Melzer Consulting
Moss, Steve - Nooter/Eriksen Environmental Technologies
Myers, Greg - Consumers Energy
Nelson, Tom - Sage Environmental Consulting
Niksa, Stephen - Niksa Energy Associates
Owens II, Fred - Babcock & Wilcox
Paine, Robert - AECOM
Paradis, Jennifer - URS Corp.
Pavlish, Brandon - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Pavlish, John - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Pearson, Thomas - Alstom Power
Pekney, Natalie - DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL)
Reddy, Satish - Fluor Enterprises
Richardson, M. - URS Corp.
Rossler, Michael - Edison Electric Institute
Searcy, Katherine - Trimeric Corporation
Senior, Connie - ADA Environmental
Serne, Jim - TRC Environmental
Silva, Anthony - Babcock & Wilcox
Siperstein, Joseph - Ohio Lumex
Sjostrom, Sharon - ADA Environmental
Sloss, Lesley - IEA Clean Coal Centre
Stanislowski, Joshua - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Starns, Travis - ADA Environmental
Steadman, Ed - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Teng, Xinjun (Jason) - Southern Company
Thompson, Jeffrey - Energy & Environmental Research Center
Tomescu, Claudia - Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Tyree, Corey - Southern Company
Van Otten, Brydger - Reaction Engineering International
Wallschlaeger, D. - Trent University
Wilson, Malcolm - Petroleum Technology Research Centre
Wyzga, Ron - EPRI
Zhuang, Ye - Energy & Environmental Research Center
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Here are the Headlines for the September 23, 2011 Utility E Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1043 - September 23, 2011
Table of Contents
COAL US
Hitachi signs Fabric Filter License Agreement with Balcke-Dόrr GmbH for US
Market
Texas and Kansas sue EPA over Emissions Control Rule
Duke Energys Gibson Station converting to Dry Ash Ponds
PNA files Appeal regarding EPA Mandate for installation of SCR at 1,800 MW San
Juan (New Mexico)
COAL WORLD
Therma South gets Environment Clearance for 300 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in
Davao City, Philippines
Guinea in negotiations with CPI to build 340 MW Power Plant
New Standards Will Add $40 Billion in Air Pollution Investment in China
GAS / OIL - US
Final Permit issued to Sandusky-Clyde Energy Solutions for Gas-fired Power
Plant
Burns & McDonnell chosen to help build Natural Gas-fired Power Plant in Warren
County, Virginia
GAS / OIL WORLD
RWE cancels 1,000 MW Gas-fired Power Plant in Czech Republic
ERMs 330 MW Gas Turbine Power Project at Three Springs (Western Australia)
Approved
Saudi Electricity Co. to sign $2.85 Billion Qurayyah Power Plant Deal
GE signs Energy Deals in Russia
GE awarded US$300 million in Contracts for Egyptian Power Projects
GE Gas Turbine Technology selected for New IPP Power Plant in Indonesia
SaskPower to increase Capacity of Canadian Gas-fired Power Station
BIOMASS
GDF SUEZ unveils the Rodenhuize 100 Percent Biomass Power Station in Belgium
NUCLEAR
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan shut down after Leak is discovered
Westinghouse Awarded Contract to Provide Reactor Vessel Heads and Related
Services to Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland
BUSINESS
GE signs Long-Term Service Agreement with Northern Iraqs Mass Global
FMC, Church & Dwight and TATA Chemicals announce Air Pollution Control Joint
Venture
HOT TOPIC HOUR
DSI and CFB have a Future - Hot Topic Hour September 22
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click
on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.
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$5 Billion Air Monitoring Market in 2012
The market for products and services to measure ambient and stack air pollutants
will exceed $5 billion in 2012. There is another $3.6 billion which will be
indirectly generated from these activities resulting in a total market of $8.6
billion. This is the latest forecast in Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling:
World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company.
Category Revenues ($ Millions) for 2012
CEM systems $1,100
CEM parts, service, certification $1,000
Intermittent stack testing $1,800
Ambient monitoring systems and support $1,200
Total direct air monitoring $5,100
Regulatory compliance and permitting $1,500
Air related process optimization $2,000
Total direct and indirect air $8,600
Other Industrial IT $126,000
Total broader market $135,000
Sales of new continuous emission monitoring systems and the services, parts and
support for these systems will generate revenues of $2.1 billion. The largest
purchasers of these systems will be power plants, followed by cement, refining,
chemicals, pulp and paper.
Sales of ambient monitoring systems are booming in Asia as the region tries to
come to grips with serious pollution problems. Most of the ambient system sales
are to governmental organizations, but a number of large industrial plants use a
system of ambient fence line monitors.
Emission control increasingly trumps operating cost optimization in the plant
automation and control systems. Therefore, incorporation of pollutant analyzers
in the total automation systems is becoming critical. Thus air monitoring can be
viewed as a small but important segment of industrial information technology.
This larger market is $135 billion/yr.
Automation Systems $ 90,000
Field Devices $ 27,000
External Interface $ 9,000
Plant Design $ 9,000
$135,000
For more information on Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling World Markets,
click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#no31.
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Wind Energy Technology Advances
McIlvaine Renewable Energy Update and Projects reports on all facets of the
renewable energy field from technology to markets. Just a few of the recent
technology developments in the wind industry follow.
With the wind industry moving toward larger wind turbine platforms in the
future, GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General
Electric Company, announced it has begun work on the first phase of a 2-year, $3
million project from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a next generation
wind turbine generator that could support large-scale wind applications in the
10-15 MW range. This project is one of many in GEs wind research portfolio
focused on scaling up wind power in the most economically feasible way.
*****
Vestas, announced that it has taken a major step forward in solving a critical
wind energy challenge: It has successfully tested a full-scale stealth rotor
on a turbine, paving the way for wind power plants to be located near many
military, airport and other radar systems without interfering in their
operations.
The stealth turbine test, which was conducted at a UK customer site with
technology partner QinetiQ, is part of an ongoing research collaboration that
began in 2006. Preliminary test results, announced at the International Wind and
Radar Forum in Ottawa, Canada, showed that a Vestas V90 turbine with stealth
rotor achieved a targeted reduction in radar cross-section of approximately 99
percent, or 20 decibels, compared with standard turbines.
*****
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced that it will invest £25
million into a state-of-the art, open access, wind turbine drive train test rig
seen as crucial for the continued success and further expansion of the UKs
offshore wind industry.
The indoor rig will be sited at Narec in Blyth, Northumberland and will be
capable of testing complete drive trains and nacelles up to 15 MW. It should be
available for commercial testing from June 2013.
The test rig is capable of providing 15 MW of power, as well as creating the
dynamic conditions that wind turbines would expect to see when installed
offshore. It will be larger and more complex than anything currently available
and will help manufacturers increase the reliability of their new turbines, with
the benefit to consumers of reduced energy costs.
The rig has been designed to allow the whole turbine nacelle to be tested, in a
purpose built, onshore test facility before being exposed to the challenging
offshore conditions. This will help reduce the technical and commercial risks of
mass production and deployment.
*****
The Timken Company, Stark State College and the Stark County Port Authority
officially broke ground on a Wind Energy Research and Development Center, the
first of its kind in America. At the facility, Timken will develop ultra-large
bearings and seals on sophisticated equipment that replicates the operating
environment of large multi-megawatt wind turbines.
The 18,000-square-foot center will secure 65 jobs directly, while creating a
unique research practicum and technical certification program for Stark State
College students, offering them critical experience conducting research,
developing new designs and testing large wind-turbine bearing systems. It also
will provide critical training for current and future technicians across the
spectrum of operating services required by today's wind turbine manufacturers
and operators.
*****
Sandia is moving its wind energy test facility to a new location near the campus
of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Sandia, Texas Tech and Group NIRE are pursuing a three-way research agreement
under which this facility will operate. The Department of Energy's Wind & Water
Power program is funding Sandia's work.
The site will perform primarily experimental work in turbine-to-turbine
interactions and will evaluate innovative rotor technologies. It will also
investigate such areas as aero-acoustics, aero-elasticity and structural health
monitoring using embedded sensor systems.
*****
Vattenfall has been participating in a EU project on challenges to up scaling
wind power technology. The project came to an end in March 2011, which resulted
in reliability modeling and design criteria of future wind turbines/wind farms
and improvements on the grid integration issues.
One of the concrete deliverables that Vattenfall has contributed is a report
entitled Up-scaling trends for electrical design of wind farms. The main
conclusions were that the transmission system on HVDC (high voltage direct
current) is the suitable solution for next generation of wind farms that will be
placed at long distances from the shore.
For more information on Renewable Energy Projects and Update please visit:
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