Cleanroom Hardware Sales to Exceed $4.3 Billion Next Year
Sales of modular cleanrooms, walls, floors, filters, devices and other cleanroom
hardware will exceed $4.3 billion in 2014. This is the most recent forecast
appearing in World Cleanroom Markets published by the McIlvaine Company.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Millions)
Subject |
2014 |
Total |
4,349
|
Devices |
756 |
Engineering & Design |
449
|
Floors |
318
|
HVAC |
1,587
|
Monitoring |
290
|
New & Prefilters |
289
|
Replacement Filters |
372
|
Walls |
288
|
The market for devices is growing faster than the other segments. The reason is
that mini-environments are continuing to take market share away from the
ballroom cleanrooms. There is considerable penetration in the semiconductor
industry and a growing interest for this concept in the pharmaceutical industry.
The minienvironment encloses the product. The cleanroom workers are
outside the enclosure and, therefore, are not a source of contamination.
The result is a much cleaner space and the use of less air and energy.
The limitations of this approach are the requirements to automate the process,
so that the worker does not have to be in contact with the product during
processing.
For more information on World Cleanroom Markets, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73
Thirty New Municipal Wastewater Projects Per Week in North America
There are more than 30 new municipal wastewater projects initiated per week in
the U.S. and Canada according to the McIlvaine Company who tracks these projects
in North America Municipal Wastewater
Treatment Facilities and People. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Many of these projects are active for five years or more. This results in
thousands of active projects at any one point in time. These projects
range from modifications to small plants to construction of new large 400 mgd
facilities. The new facilities are generally located in the south
and west and are to meet the population expansion. However, new plants are
being slated to replace older plants in regions where the population is not
growing.
One major project is to replace a plant which is more than 100 years old and has
only been modified to extend its life. In general, replacing old plants with
new ones results in the lowest overall cost. Many old plants do not have the
modern digital controls which can provide greater efficiency. Newer
equipment designs such as membrane contactors have only been available for the
last twenty years.
Odor control is another aspect which is much more cost effectively accomplished
with a new plant. The cost of odor control is more a function of the air volume
treated than the concentration of contaminant. Older plants require
much more capture air than new ones which are designed with air minimization as
a goal.
In the future there will be more projects directed at reusing municipal treated
wastewater. There are at least ten current projects where combined cycle
power plants are being built with the intention of using the discharge from the
local MWTP.
One area where the projects are mostly at a small scale is the analysis and
removal of contaminant of emerging concern (CEC). There is work going on to
evaluate pharmaceuticals and personal care products.
Southern California is concerned about the environmental impact of more than one
billion gallons of treated wastewater which is discharged daily into the ocean
from municipalities.
For more information on North
America Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People:
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71#62ei.
China Can Remove Mercury at Low Cost Thanks to U.S. Developments
In order to meet tough regulations in the U.S. technology developers have made
great strides in creating low cost routes to achieve mercury removal from power
plant exhausts. The cost is especially low if the plant already has a scrubber.
China is installing scrubbers on nearly all its plants. As a result China can
remove mercury with just a tiny percent increase in its air pollution control
investment and operating cost.
There have been some very significant recent breakthroughs which need to be
communicated to the Chinese policy makers. To this end, McIlvaine conducted a
webinar last week in Mandarin Chinese with two FGD experts. A presentation on
removal technology was made by Bobby Chen of CBI Shaw. Questions and discussion
were provided by Shiaw Tseng of Graymont. This presentation in Mandarin is
available as a recording in the McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard and on
YouTube.
McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=573
YouTube:
http://youtu.be/ldq33k5UWTs
U.S. power plants emitted 100,000 lbs of mercury per year prior to the
regulations. By 2016 emissions will have been reduced by more than 80,000 lbs
per year. China operates four times as many coal-fired boilers as the U.S., and
five times as many cement plants. The potential Chinese reductions are much more
significant than those in the U.S. Mercury is a world traveler. Gold mines in
Brazil are emitting mercury which has been tracked to the arctic, so this is a
global problem and needs a global solution. China has demonstrated a willingness
to spend a great deal to improve the environment, so it is likely that they will
take advantage of this opportunity when the low cost and ease of achieving the
reduction are made clear.
For more information on other breakthroughs in power plant air quality
improvement, click on: Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=48#n44i
Oil & Gas Sales Lead – August 20, 2013
(Listed by most current date)
These sales leads are part of Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and
Projects and are issued bi-weekly. As a subscriber to World Cleanroom
Markets or Ultrapure Water World Markets you receive a 30 percent
discount for this service.
For more information on Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects,
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=72#n049
For more information on World Cleanroom Markets, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73
For more information on Ultrapure Water World Markets click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=71#n029
WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECTS
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There
are thousands of projects in the database.
Revision Date: August 1, 2013
Project Title |
First Entry Date |
Location |
Startup date |
Harford County gas turbine
power plant-Exelon |
8/1/2013
|
MD
|
Unknown
|
Chouteau power plant-Grand
River Authority |
8/1/2013
|
OK
|
2017
|
Jessup possible power
plant-Invenergy |
8/1/2013
|
PA
|
Unknown
|
Wisconsin Public Service power
plant |
8/1/2013
|
WI
|
2019
|
Jazan IGCC power plant-Saudi
Aramco |
11/1/2012
|
Saudi Arabia |
2016
|
Brunswick County power
plant-Dominion Virginia Power |
2/1/2012
|
VA
|
2016
|
Jamaica Public Service Co.
combined cycle power project |
12/1/2011
|
Jamaica
|
Unknown
|
6/1/2009
|
Iran
|
Unknown
|
|
Fangchenggang
1,2 (Hongsha)-China Guangdong
Nuclear Power Corp. |
2/1/2009
|
China
|
2016
|
Opole expansion-Polska Grupa
Energetyczna |
2/1/2009
|
Poland
|
2018
|
Ostrovetsky district--Belarus
nuclear power plant |
6/1/2007
|
Belarus
|
2018
|
Delimara combined cycle
expansion-Malta Resources
Authority |
1/1/2007
|
Malta
|
2015
|
Los Esteros Phase II-Calpine
|
5/1/2004
|
CA
|
2013
|
Russell City Energy Center
combined cycle plant-Calpine |
2/1/2001
|
CA
|
2013
|
Southaven combined
cycle-Southaven Power |
|
MS
|
2002
|
New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and
Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data.
World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.
For more information on World Power Generation Projects, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/28-energy/486-40ai
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