$5 Billion 2015 Desalination Market for Pumps, Valves, Filters and Chemicals
The market for pumps, valves, filters and chemicals for use in desalination will
exceed $5 billion in 2015. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine
Company in aggregating forecasts in a number of its reports.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
California with its drought crisis is at the epi-center of the desalination
activity. Seventeen plants are in planning stages along the coast to convert
saltwater from the ocean or bays, including one near Concord that would convert
20 million gallons a day of drinkable water.
A plant under construction near San Diego will be biggest desalination facility
in the Western Hemisphere when it begins operations in 2016. The $1 billion
plant will produce 50 million gallons of potable water daily. A $400 million
plant could begin construction in Monterey County by 2018.
Activity in the Middle East will also be high although other areas of the world
are gaining market share. The biggest hardware investment will be in cross-flow
membrane equipment. Consumable expenditures with the highest revenue generation
will be replacement membrane modules and treatment chemicals.
Desalination Component Revenues
Product 2015 Revenue
($ Millions)
Water Treatment Chemicals 800
Pumps 500
Valves 400
Liquid Macrofiltration 100
Cartridges 80
Sedimentation and Centrifugation 60
Cross-flow Membrane Equipment and Replacement Modules 3,060
Total 5,000
Treatment chemical cost averages 0.03 $/m3 of capacity in seawater, reverse
osmosis (RO) systems and 0.02/ $/m3 in thermal systems. There is substantial use
of scale inhibitors in thermal systems. Acids and antifoams are used in MSF
systems. Cleaning chemicals are a substantial investment where RO is employed.
The amount of water being pumped in desalination systems is presently only about
one percent of the amount being pumped for all the world’s drinking supplies. On
the other hand, the high pressure pumps needed for reverse osmosis are an order
of magnitude more expensive than those used for drinking water transport.
Thermal systems require pumps for a number of processes:
• Seawater intake pumps
• Brine recirculation pumps
• Brine blow-down pumps
• Distillate extraction pumps
• Condensate extraction pumps
• Product forwarding pumps
Thermal systems require substantial numbers of valves. The high pressure
membrane desalination systems require expensive valves to deal with the
corrosive conditions as well as the pressures.
Pre-filtration for the reverse osmosis (RO) systems and initial purification of
water which will be evaporated in thermal systems is accomplished with liquid
macrofiltration and cartridges. Automatic backwash filters and sand filters are
frequently used. Liquid wastes are dewatered in filter presses.
Cartridges are used to remove particles which are too small to be captured in
liquid macrofiltration equipment, but too large and plentiful to be handled by
cross-flow membranes. There has been a high replacement frequency on cartridges.
An alternative to liquid macrofiltration is sedimentation. Clarifiers and
dissolved air flotation systems are selected for a number of systems. The
desalting takes place in either thermal systems where the water is evaporated or
by separation with cross-flow membranes. RO does the final separation. Macro or
ultrafilters are often used to pre-filter and protect the RO membranes.
For more information, click on:
Cartridge Filters: World Market:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/117-n024
Industrial Valves: World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/115-n028
Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/118-n006
Pumps World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/116-n019
RO, UF, MF World Market:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/120-n020
Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/119-n005
Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/27-water/449-n026-water-and-wastewater-treatment-chemicals
In order to achieve such large capacity, the plant needs equally large
centrifugal pumps taking water directly from the sea and through the various
processes in the evaporator. Such applications are:
• Seawater intake pumps
• Brine recirculation pumps
• Brine blow-down pumps
• Distillate extraction pumps
• Condensate extraction pumps
• Product forwarding pumps
Asian Remediation Market to Exceed $5.4 Billion Next Year
Asia will spend $2.4 billion for groundwater remediation next year and $3
billion for soil cleanup, according to the McIlvaine Company in its most recent
update of Site Remediation World Markets. Eighty-three percent of the total will
be spent in East Asia. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
2015 Asian Remediation Market ($ Millions)
Region Groundwater Soil Total
Metals and VOCs Other Contaminants
East Asia 1,500 500 2,500 4,500
West Asia 300 100 500 900
Total 1,800 600 3,000 5,400
The market for site remediation in China is growing at double-digit rates due to
a number of factors. The country contains 20 percent of the world’s population,
but covers only 9 percent of the landmass on earth. The demand for food is
increasing. The focus on industrialization has led to more and more
contamination of the soil and water. Crops in some instances are cultivated on
contaminated soil and irrigated with contaminated water.
China is the major producer of rare earth metals in the world. However, rare
earth mining and refining have caused serious pollution across the country. For
twenty years, the industry has been regulated only marginally. Groundwater
contaminated by radionuclides at rare earth refinery sites in northern China,
near the Mongolian border, has been migrating toward the Yellow River, which
supplies drinking water for 150 million people.
High cancer rates and other health problems linked to the refining of rare
earths have forced the evacuation of entire villages between the city of Baotou
and the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia. The Chinese government is spending
billions of dollars to clean up the pollution.
The market in Japan is significantly affected by just one remediation site
(Fukushima) and Japan plans to spend $970 million to build a special facility to
store tens of thousands of tons of soil contaminated by radioactive water from
the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Hundreds of millions per year is
being spent on chemicals and other methods for treating contaminants in the
water.
India and other West Asian countries have problems equal to those in East Asia
but not the political will or funds to make as large an effort as is being made
in Eat Asia.
For more information on Site Remediation World Markets, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/remediation
Headlines for the March 7, 2014 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1165 – March 7, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL – US
EPA taking Final Action to approve Revisions to the Oklahoma State
Implementation Plan
Five More Duke Energy Plants cited for Violations
B&W sued by ARPA over alleged faulty Coal-fired Boiler
Construction begins on Rockaway Lateral and Northeast Connector expansions in
NYC
COAL – WORLD
Two More Thermal Power Projects planned in Karnataka, India
Eemshaven (Netherlands) Site for New 1600 MW Coal/Biomass Power Plant
ANC Dubai to set up Two 660 MW Coal-fired Power Plants at Gaddani
Novinda awarded Three Contracts to supply Amended Silicates HgX for the
removal of Mercury from Ten Coal-fired Power Plants
GAS/OIL – US
Three New Gas Utility Projects planned for Ohio due to Natural Gas from Utica
Shale
EPA awards Pollution Permit to Pio Pico Gas-fired Power Plant in San Diego, CA
GAS/OIL – WORLD
Alstom starting erection and commissioning for the first of its GT13E2 Gas
Turbines the Urals Region of Russia
AsiaTech Energy secures Funding from UOB for Gas-fired Power Plant n Mon
State, Myanmar
CO2
First Carbon Capture Project at Peterhead Gas-fired Power Plant in Scotland
NUCLEAR
India and Russia in talks regarding Third and Fourth Reactors at Kudankulam,
India
Nuclear Waste must be stored above Ground at WIPP in New Mexico
BIOMASS
Foster Wheeler Subsidiary awarded Contract for Two 60 MWe Grate Boilers for
Fatima Sugar Mill, Pakistan
BUSINESS
GDF Suez sells 24.5 Percent Stake in Hungarian Dunamenti Gas-fired Combined
Cycle Power Plant to MET Group
Tanzanian Energy Regulator Considering Two Bids for Power Plants
U.S. Coal upgrades will improve European Energy Security and Reduce Equivalent
CO2 by Five Billion Tons/Yr
China will spend $34 Billion/Yr for Air Pollution Control
HOT TOPIC HOUR
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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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 Tracking
System. The cost is $300.00 for non-subscribers.
See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input
relative to suggested additions.
DATE SUBJECT
March 20, 2014
China Air Pollution Control World’s Largest Market
March 27, 2014 Analysis Of Dry Scrubber Options Top notch third party expert
panelists and lots of background info
April 10, 2014 Mercury Chemicals In Fuel, Flue Gas and Scrubbing Liquor
Important alternative to sorbents
April 17, 2014 Measurement Of Gas Turbine Emissions Including NH3 Six different
options
May 1, 2014 850oF Particulate Removal With Ceramic Filter Media Could change the
whole back end
May 8, 2014 Sorbent Traps vs. Mercury CEMS Sorbent traps are competitive
May 15, 2014 Gas Intake Filters: HEPA or Medium Efficiency More information
May 29, 2014 Stellite Delamination in Power Plant Steam Valves More information
June 5, 2014 Dry vs. Wet Cooling Surprising number of ACC’S. Why?
June 12, 2014 HRSG Issues (Fast Start, Tube Failures) Lots of challenges to
cycle 200 X/yr
June 26, 2014 CCR $ billions Needed
July/August 2014
Boiler Feedwater Treatment
Condensate Polishing for Peaking Turbines
316 B Water Issues
Gas Turbine Permitting Issues
Give us your opinion about topics we should consider
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