Liquid Macrofiltration Market to Exceed $7 Billion By 2017
The market for filters in the macrofiltration category will rise from $6 billion
last year to over $7 billion in 2017. This is the latest forecast in Liquid
Filtration and Media World Markets, published by the McIlvaine Company.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Millions)
Continent 2017
Total 7,128
Africa 236
America 1,778
Asia 3,848
Europe 1,266
The growth will be fueled by Asian demand. By 2017, well over 50 percent of the
sales will be for use in China and other Asian countries. Macrofilters are
widely used by municipal water treatment plants, municipal sewage treatment
operators, power generators, steel mills, chemical plants and pulp mills. There
is much more construction of these facilities in Asia than on other continents.
Macrofiltration needs to be distinguished from cartridge filtration and from
cross-flow filtration. McIlvaine has a separate cartridge report and another on
reverse osmosis and other cross-flow membranes. Cartridge filtration involves
disposable filters. Cross-flow filtration utilizes membranes, but is
distinguished primarily by the fact that only a portion of the incoming liquid
is filtered and the balance moves across the filtration surface and remains
unfiltered.
Macrofiltration includes those filters not part of the other two categories.
Gravity media filters, filter presses, automatic backwash filters, belt filter
presses and bag filters are all included in the macrofiltration category. The
filter presses, gravity belt filters and bag filters can be used to separate
products from liquids and are, therefore, used in food and chemical processing.
Belt filter presses are widely used to dewater sewage sludge. Gravity belt
filters are typically used to separate gypsum in flue gas desulfurization
systems. Gravity media filters including those with sand and synthetic media are
used in water treatment. Automatic backwash filters are increasingly used an
alternative to cartridges. The efficiency is limited to particles in excess of 1
microns. The advantage is the fact that the units are self cleaning.
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$425 Million Will Be Spent To Monitor Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Plants This
Year
In 2014, the total market for air and water monitoring including field and
laboratory instruments will exceed $22 billion. Of this total, $2.6 billion will
be spent by the power industry. In this segment, more than $350 million will be
spent for air, water, liquid and gas measurement at gas turbine and combined
cycle plants. Industrial gas turbine operators provide an additional market.
Seventy-five million will be spent by the oil and gas extraction and processing,
refining and other industrial operators of gas turbines for their monitoring
needs. These forecasts segmented for each country are displayed in Air and Water
Monitoring World Market, published by the McIlvaine Company.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
This year, 75,000 MW of new utility electrical generating turbines will be added
to a world base of 1,100,000 MW already installed. In addition, a large number
of smaller turbines will be purchased by industrial plants which are generating
electricity and steam or are compressing gases and use gas turbines to provide
the compression power.
One of the fastest growing industrial sectors is the application of gas turbines
for landfill and sewage plant biogas. These plants require the measurement of
formaldehyde or other organic compounds. Measurement of H2S is also required.
Some utility and industrial operators burn oil. Those units burning fuel oil as
a secondary fuel typically need to install SO2 monitors.
Nearly all the turbines regardless of the application must measure NOx
continuously. In some cases this can be done with predictive systems, but more
typically is accomplished with continuous emissions monitoring systems. It is
also often necessary to install selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems
which use ammonia as a reagent. Continuous measurement of the ammonia slip is
necessary for both control and regulatory goals. It is also necessary to install
a second set of NOx analyzers to determine both the raw NOx as well as the NOx
in the stack.
In the simple cycle mode, it is often necessary to add tempering air prior to
the selective catalytic reduction systems. Measurement of gas flow and
temperature is, therefore, required at multiple locations.
Some turbines are operated in the simple cycle mode, so no water is necessary
for cooling condensate. However, even these units require fogging or inlet air
cooling systems using deionized water. Hence, monitoring water quality is
necessary. For combined cycle operation, dry cooling is becoming more popular.
However, the vast majority of systems use wet cooling towers. Companies such as
Nalco and GE have automated chemistry systems to measure the parameters and add
chemicals to maximize the number of times the water can be recycled.
The cooling water blowdown requires measurement of pollutant levels before and
after final purification. Zero liquid discharge systems are becoming popular.
These require various filtration and evaporation steps, all with air and water
monitoring requirements.
Monitoring the feedwater and the condensate where heat recovery steam generators
are utilized requires very accurate monitors for dissolved oxygen, flow, pH and
other parameters.
For more information on Air and Water Monitoring World Market, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/106-n031.
$700 Million Will Be Spent For Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals in Gas
Turbine and Combined Cycle Power Plants This Year
In 2014, the total market for water and wastewater treatment chemicals will
exceed $25 billion. Of this total, $4.9 billion will be spent by the power
industry. The biggest segment will be coal-fired power. The nuclear segment will
also be significant. The gas-fired segment will be close in size to nuclear.
More than $700 million will be spent for treatment chemicals in gas turbine and
combined cycle power plants. This includes the generators in the large utility
plants, but also those used in oil and gas extraction and processing, refining
and by other industrial operators. These forecasts segmented by region and then
by 80 countries and sub regions are displayed and updated continually in Water
and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market, published by the McIlvaine
Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Seventy-five thousand MW of new utility electrical generating turbines will be
added this year to a world base of 1,100,000 MW already installed. In addition,
a large number of smaller turbines will be purchased by industrial plants which
are generating electricity and steam or are compressing gases and use gas
turbines to provide the compression power.
Many gas turbines are operated in conjunction with a steam turbine in the
combined cycle mode. Treatment chemicals are used to purify the water which will
be used to make steam, to prevent corrosion and scaling in the steam cycle and
to treat the raw water which will be used for cooling. The blowdown from the
cooling cycle must also be treated.
Some turbines are operated in the simple cycle mode, so no water is necessary
for cooling. However, even these units require fogging or inlet air cooling
systems using deionized water. Hence, water treatment is necessary. For combined
cycle operation dry cooling is becoming more popular. However, the vast majority
of systems use wet cooling towers. Companies such as Nalco and GE have automated
chemistry systems to measure the parameters and add chemicals to maximize the
number of times the water can be recycled.
The cooling water blowdown requires treatment chemicals. Zero liquid discharge
systems are becoming popular. These require various filtration and evaporation
steps all with water treatment chemical requirements.
For more information on Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market,
click on:
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Headlines for the December 20, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1155– December 20, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
Hitachi signs SCR Catalyst Supply Agreement with AEP
Court of Appeals upholds State Permits for Emission Controls at Monroe
Wolverine drops Plans for Coal-fired CFB Power Plant in Michigan
Dunkirk to Repower with Gas
We Energies, Wolverine to end Joint Venture at Presque Isle Power Plant
COAL – WORLD
GSECL to build 800 MW Wanakbori Unit in Gujarat, India
Trombay 6 (Maharashtra, India) to burn Coal
Dominican Republic building 2x385 MW Power Plant
MicroCoal® Technologies building Coal Upgrading Facility at Power Plant in
Kalimantan, Indonesia
Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company to build 2x300 MW Coal-fired Power Plant using
Thar Coal (Pakistan)
Alstom to supply Equipment for 500 MW Neyveli Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India
SEPCOIII to build 1320 MW Power Plant in Chittagong, Bangladesh
GAS/OIL - US
Bayles Energy proposes Power Plant in Greene County, PA
WPS chooses Fox Energy Center as Preferred Site for Possible 500 MW Power
Plant
Siemens to provide H Class Gas Turbines for Patriot
Black Hills Colorado to build 40 MW Power Plant at Pueblo Airport
GAS/OIL – WORLD
Siemens to build 414 MW San Gabriel Power Plant in Philippines
Metito to provide Water System for Suez Power Plant in Egypt
Azura Power to build 950 MW Power Plant in Edo State, Nigeria
2x25 MW Korangi to be converted to Combined Cycle Operation (Pakistan)
Wood Group completes Maintenance and Optimization for Jamaican Power Station
Stellar Energy supplies TIAC System for 540 MW Mexico City Power Plant
APR to build 40 MW Mobile Gas Turbine Project in Angola
PSG to Supply Steam Cycle Equipment for 280 MW Combined Cycle Addition at
Erbil Power Plant in Iraq
BIOMASS
Eggborough will not convert to Biomass-firing after denied Government
Subsidies
NUCLEAR
Indonesia Plans Sites for Nuclear Power Plant
India to lay Foundation Stone for Gorakhpur Nuclear Reactor in Early January
BUSINESS
Clean Coal Solutions to begin Operations of Five Additional Refined Coal
Facilities in Early 2014
100,000 Companies Supply or Specify Flow and Treatment Products and Services
Gas Turbine Expenditures to Exceed $106 Billion In 2014
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“Selecting FGD Scrubber Materials” was the Hot Topic on December 19, 2013
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relative to suggested additions.
DATE SUBJECT
January 9, 2014 Air Pre-heaters & Heat Exchangers More information
January 16, 2014 Corrosion Issues and Materials for APC Systems More information
February 6, 2014 Review of EUEC
February 13, 2014 Impact of Ambient Air Quality Rules on Fossil-fueled Boilers
and Gas Turbines More information
February 27, 2014
NOx Catalyst Performance on Mercury and SO3
More information
March 13, 2014 Industrial Boiler Fuel Options: Coal, biomass or gas? More
information
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