Insights of the Week
Join us for our Cleanroom IIoT webinar on "Thursday, April 20 at 10:00 AM
Semiconductor, pharmaceutical and other manufacturers need ultraclean
environments. The webinar will cover the opportunity for continuous remote
monitoring of recirculating air and water used in critical processes along with
development of smarter mini environments and better sensors to track personnel
activity and contamination. We will also be covering activities of individual
companies as illustrated from some of the headlines in a recent McIlvaine IIoT
and Remote Monitoring Newsletter:
Vaisala Continuous Monitors Keep Pharma Cleanrooms Audit Ready
Terra has Wireless Control System to Minimize Cleanroom Fan Energy Consumption
Lighthouse Software Provides Tracking of Air Cleanliness and Conditions
Mahindra Remotely Monitors Indian Cleanrooms
ENVIRCO Controls Air Flow in Cleanroom Filtration Systems
ABB Robotics Has Introduced Its Smallest Ever Cleanroom Robot
IIoT Weekly Webinars each week include Ultrapure Water on April 27 and Water and
Wastewater Treatment Chemicals on May 4. Free registration for all these
webinars is linked from Weekly IIoT Webinars
Valve Decisions for gas turbine power plants are critical.
The latest Gas Turbine Decisions Updates chronicles all the problems with valves
and attemperators in gas turbine combined cycle plants 59D Gas Turbine and
Reciprocating Engine Decisions. Solutions to the valve problems are being
discussed and resolved in High Performance Valves and IIoT. Solutions for the
BHE plants are being analyzed in 4S01 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and
Utility Connect.
Lots of Asian coal-fired power plants are under construction in Asia.
Here are a few headlines from 41F Utility E-Alert
Mudajaya Group (Malaysia) reaches deal with GE Power and Alstom Power
NTPC arm ties up $1.6 Billion for Maitree Power Plant in Bangladesh
Chhabra Thermal Power Station 1,320 MW expansion is under construction in India
KSK Mahanadi Power Project under construction in Chhattisgarh, India
Details on all the coal-fired plants are found in 42EI Utility Tracking System
Oil, gas and refining project list is expanding.
Here some headlines over the last few days appearing in N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and
Refining Markets and Projects
Alfa Laval to Provide Packinox Heat Exchangers to West Africa Refinery
MMEX Resources and KP Engineering to design, build crude oil refinery in Permian
Basin (07, T17)
Mediterranean Gas Pipeline Could Be Built by 2025
Shell Plans to Double India's Hazira LNG Plant Capacity
Poland Considers Building Floating LNG Terminal By 2021 (07, T19)
Ultrapure Water IIoT and Remote O&M Market will exceed $800 Million in 2026
Operators of ultrapure water systems in power plants, pharmaceutical,
semiconductor and other industries requiring ultrapure water will invest $5
billion in hardware, consumables and services this year to provide high purity
water for manufacturing processes. This is the forecast in Ultrapure Water World
Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. Seven percent of the total
expenditures ($350 million) will be spent for IIoT and Remote O&M. The IIoT
segment will grow rapidly over the next decade and reach $875 million by 2026.
This will be due to rapid growth in digital process management as outlined in in
N031 Industrial IOT and Remote O&M.
Industry UPW
Total
2017 UPW
IIoT and
Remote
O&M
2017 UPW
IIoT and
Remote
O&M
2026
Coal-Fired Power 900 63 158
Semiconductor 1500 105 262
Other Electronics 850 59 148
Gas Turbines 400 28 70
Nuclear 200 14 35
Industrial Power 450 32 80
Other Industries 200 14 35
Pharmaceutical 500 35 87
Total 5000 350 875
Asia will dominate the market due to its continued expansion of coal-fired
power, electronics manufacturing and its leading role in generic drugs. However,
international companies are dominant in IIoT and in domain expertise, so they
should be able to garner a high Asian market share.
The IIoT & Remote O&M applied to the manufacturing processes will be much larger
but ultrapure water is essential to producing reliable steam, salable chips and
safe drugs. The challenge is to integrate ultrapure water digital process
management with that of the facility.
In the electronics industries, ultrapure water with a very high degree of purity
is used to clean silicon wafers and electronic components. Kurita Water
Industries combines IIoT and remote monitoring with a range of products such as
deionizers, RO (reverse osmosis) membranes, water treatment chemicals, and
ion-exchange resins. Kurita also offers a number of wastewater treatment systems
and wastewater reclamation systems that provide an optimal means for treating
the organic and inorganic wastewater discharged during the various production
processes.
Kurita defines IT sensing technology as the foundation of solutions provided to
customers, and visualizes the water treatment status using its original system
to provide services for the remote monitoring of customers' water treatment
conditions. The purpose of these services is to monitor the water treatment
conditions and effects of treatment on a real-time basis with customers at their
sites, and to share information about water treatment issues that need to be
addressed together so that Kurita can quickly implement more beneficial
solutions to all the issues customers face.
Kurita analyzes the water quality of target facilities on a daily basis and
reports the analysis results to customers. It launched a new water treatment
management service called "S.sensing" with the aim of building higher
value-added systems for customers by visualizing the water treatment effect more
directly.
It will realize optimal water treatment in real time with a system that combines
Kurita's original core technologies for measurement, analysis, control, and
monitoring by installing the sensing equipment in the plant facilities of
customers.
With this system, it controls and optimizes chemicals injected in response to
changes in water quality on a real-time basis at the target facilities where
water treatment chemicals are used, based on the automatic analysis of the
effective density of chemicals and the water treatment effect, along with
conventional services to monitor data such as water quality, the amounts of the
chemicals injected, and the remaining amounts of chemicals. The items of
measured data are instantly transferred to Kurita's server, allowing it to check
the water treatment management status as needed from a computer, a smartphone,
or a tablet terminal connected to the Internet.
Kurita will promote higher-quality solutions, such as the ex ante prediction of
problems, the realization of more efficient water treatment specifications, the
improvement of productivity, and the reduction of the environmental impact by
sharing various kinds of information with customers through the S.sensing
services. This information includes items such as the status and effect of water
treatment management, the operation data of water treatment facilities, and
trends of other temporal changes. The diagram below provides the components in a
system providing ultrapure water for liquid crystal display manufacturing.
Kurita Water Industries
Suez has the opportunity to become the leader in ultrapure water IIoT and Remote
O&M. It is acquiring GE Water who has the ultrapure water technology while Suez
is remotely monitoring facilities around the world from a center in France. For
manufacturers of pharmaceuticals GE Water now offers water treatment, reactor
cleaning, USP/UPW production, process fluids treatment and pharmacopoeia
monitoring instruments. Its purchase of Sievers many years ago makes it a
leading supplier of TOC and other water quality instrumentation.
The former GE Betz, who is a major provider of chemicals for ultrapure water,
will also now be part of Suez. This group has a large staff of sales engineers
who are providing a service as well as sales role. In the future with more IIoT
and Remote O&M onsite service will be diminished.
Veolia combines systems and monitoring with mobile fleets with the following
features:
• Global network at your local service
• Rapid response
• High flow rates capacity solutions
• Zero discharge
• Continuous production
• Preventive service
These capabilities will provide Veolia with the capability in the future to
remotely monitor and control ultrapure water at the plant with a combination of
permanent and mobile systems.
Ultrapure water systems require pumps and valves. The suppliers of these pumps
and valves are the same companies who supply this flow control equipment to
power, semiconductor and pharmaceutical plants. In the future IIoT world the
pump and valve suppliers will all have remote control centers and digital
process management programs for their products. There will be a remote-control
center operating a cloud based open platform system which will integrate and
analyze all the pumps and valves as well as all the other components and
processes. The end users, main digital process manager and the pump and valve
companies will all have real time relevant data.
The treatment chemicals companies will be monitoring chemical usage and
performance. Filter companies will be monitoring filters for ultrapure water,
wastewater, lubrication, hydraulic power and dust collection. All the fans and
compressors will be similarly monitored and controlled.
A webinar to discuss this subject is scheduled for April 27. You can register at
Weekly IIoT Webinars.
Details on the market report for ultrapure water systems and components is
described at Ultrapure Water World Markets.
All markets for IIoT are covered in IIoT And Remote O&M
Bob McIlvaine
President
847 784 0012 ext. 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
www.mcilvainecompany.com