Chinese Will Buy Power Plant Pumps to Move 34 Million Gallons Per Minute This
Year
This year China will buy pumps for its power plants which will move more than 34
million gallons per minute of water, fuel oil, and various slurries. The biggest
application will be cooling water at coal-fired power plants. Boiler feedwater
pump purchases will be small in terms of flow but substantial in price due to
the high pressures needed. Forecasts by specific pump application have just been
added to Pumps: World Markets, an online publication of the McIlvaine Company,
www.mcilvainecompany.com.
From the perspective of the purchaser concerned about future supply and the
manufacturer who needs to anticipate demand, it is essential to determine the
markets for specific pump types. No pump supplier makes the complete range of
pumps. Therefore, segmentation of the market is necessary. For the last two
decades McIlvaine has forecast the market for four pump types in ten
applications for 80 countries and sub regions resulting in 20,000 individual
forecasts. Now this number has been greatly expanded.
In the power sector, in addition to revenues McIlvaine is forecasting pump units
and flow for many different pump applications. Separate forecasts are made by
fuel type (nuclear, coal, oil and gas).
In China the coal-fired boiler market is growing rapidly. By 2020 China will be
operating three times as much coal-fired capacity as the U.S. The number of
combined cycle gas plants is relatively small. The nuclear base is low, but
there are ambitious long-term plans. China is also investing heavily in wind and
solar where lubrication pumps for wind turbine gear boxes and solar panel
rotation are needed.
Boiler feed pumps and condensate handling pumps operate at high pressures and
medium flows, and result in major expenditures for plant owners. Pump life is 20
years. The replacement market is not large in comparison to the new boiler
market in China, but replacement is the bigger share of the market in Europe.
Power plant cooling water requirements are so large they exceed the combined
requirements of all industrial and municipal applications combined. In China,
there is some movement toward dry cooling which reduces the potential market. In
the U.S., the trend away from once through cooling toward recirculation has been
a boost to the market.
The big slurry pumps used in flue gas desulfurization have generated a $100
million dollar market which has been served by a few international companies.
Now several Chinese pump companies have also entered this market.
McIlvaine plans to expand pump forecasting to cover hundreds of additional
specific applications and to provide segmentation for many different pump types.
The number of continually updated forecasts now exceeds 40,000 and it is
expected that this number will rise rapidly.
For more information on Pumps: World Markets, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#N019
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Bob McIlvaine
847-784-0012 ext. 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com