Multi-Billion Dollar Zero Liquid Discharge Opportunity in China
The per capita rainfall in China is only 25 percent that of the U.S. Large scale
industrialization has necessitated major expenditures to reduce water use. The
Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) concept is now viewed as an attractive solution for
coal-fired power plants, coal-to-chemicals, refineries and other heavy industry.
China does need international technology. Several U.S., Japanese, and European
companies are pursuing this market.
Veolia Water: As part of the Veolia Water group of companies, HPD Veolia Water
Solutions and Technologies has built more than 700 ZLD systems to date. HPD has
85 years of experience in ZLD technology and has in recent years widened its
American base with projects worldwide including a system for a coal-fired power
plant in China.
GE: ZLD systems combine GE membranes and ultra-filtration systems to improve
water recovery efficiency. The company has supplied a number of ZLD systems
around the world. It is also a major supplier of coal-to-chemicals plants in
China. These plants use very large amounts of water. There has been
international environmental pressure to reduce water consumption from
coal-to-chemical projects in China.
Aquatech: The U.S. based company has developed a ZLD technology for shale gas
water, as well as power plants and coal-to-chemicals facilities. Its technology
was chosen for the Yunnan Yuntianhua’s coal-to-chemical facility located in
China's Inner Mongolia province.
The main sources of contaminants are from the raw water reverse osmosis (RO)
plant and the cooling tower blowdown streams. These effluents are first mixed in
an equalization tank before further treatment (Figure 1).
Combined wastewater is rich in contaminants like oil and grease, volatile
organic compounds and has a relatively high Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) of about 16,000 mg/l.
McWong: Mengda New Energy Chemical Co. Ltd contracted with McWong for a
coal-to-chemicals ZLD system. The overall capacity of this project is 13,200
m3/d including water from the project's own wastewater equipment and discharged
wastewater from water pumping stations and desalination stations. McWong
utilized its own patented zero-discharge process package (UF + RO + vibrating
membrane + multi-effect evaporation concentration) technology to achieve zero
discharge and recycle coal chemical industry wastewater.
IDE: The company is involved in desalination but can provide ZLD plants. A
hybrid system has been installed at the Tianjin power plant, 200 km northeast of
Beijing. The plant provides high quality drinking water for the local
population, as well as industrial boiler makeup and process water for the power
plant. The system is powered by waste heat from the power plant, thereby
reducing the net greenhouse gas emission and reducing energy costs.
MHPS: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has a spray drier which uses the hot flue
gas to dry the power plant sludge. This results in dry disposal instead of ponds
and potential contamination. It is a low cost approach for coal-fired power
plants. There are 1,000 boiler systems in China operating wet flue gas
desulfurization systems. The spray dryer approach can be combined with the use
of treated municipal wastewater as the raw water source. This results in a net
reduction in water contamination rather than just avoidance of additional
contamination.
Information on various ZLD projects in China is found in:
42EIC Chinese Utility Plans
N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects
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GDP UPDATE
July 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMERICAS
• United States
• Canada
ASIA
• China
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
• Morocco
• Turkey
• Romania
• United Kingdom
AMERICAS
United States
Real gross domestic product (GDP) edged down 0.2% at an annual rate in the first
quarter of 2015, according to the third estimate from the Bureau of Economic
Analysis. This report reflects an upward revision of 0.5 percentage point to
overall GDP growth. The slower first quarter follows a solid increase of 3.6% at
an annual rate during the second half of 2014. Over the past four quarters, GDP
rose 2.9%. First-quarter growth was likely affected by a number of transitory
factors including unusually severe weather, the West Coast ports dispute, and
various measurement issues. A decline in net exports was another important
contributor to weak GDP growth. Indeed, net exports subtracted nearly 2 full
percentage points from quarterly GDP growth. Furthermore, structures investment
subtracted about 0.6 percentage point from GDP, reflecting reduced oil drilling
in the wake of last year’s decline in oil prices. Despite the decrease in GDP,
real gross domestic income—an alternate measure of economic output—increased
1.9% at an annual rate in the first quarter.
The upward revision to first-quarter GDP was spread across many components of
economic output. Personal consumption expenditures contributed 0.2 percentage
point to the upward revision with improvements in estimates of both goods and
services consumption. Private investment contributed another 0.3 percentage
point with a mix of small upward revisions to structures investment,
intellectual property investment, inventories, and residential investment. State
and local government investment contributed the remaining 0.1 percentage point
to the upward revision. Exports and imports saw offsetting revisions, leaving
net exports essentially unrevised on balance. (The remaining text is not
included in this sample.)
ASIA
Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong has downgraded its estimate for the city's economic
growth to 2% in the second quarter of this year from 2.4% previously because of
poor external demand and economic turmoil overseas.
The Apec studies program of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business
Strategy at the university also blamed the city's possible slower growth on the
long-lasting effects of a stronger US dollar, to which the Hong Kong dollar is
pegged.
With the uncertainty of mainland China's slowdown, the delayed resolution of
Greece's debt crisis and the uncertain timing of a much talked about rise in
interest rates in the United States, Hong Kong's economy is expected to grow
moderately this year, the university said.
It predicted economic growth would taper off further to 1.7% in the three months
to September 30, from the same period last year.
For the full year, it expected the city's real gross domestic product to grow
2%- below the 2.5% for last year but within the government's prediction of a 1
to 3% rise. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
United Kingdom
The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has revised downwards its forecast of
UK gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2015 to 2.4%.
This is slightly lower than the OBR's previous forecast, made in March, of 2.5%
GDP growth in 2015. Chancellor George Osborne blamed lower forecasts on slower
global growth, in his Budget statement.
The OBR's forecast for 2016 was unchanged at 2.3%.
'The UK is growing faster than any other advanced economy,' he said, in the
first wholly Conservative Budget since 1996.
He also said that current budget deficit as a percentage of GDP is expected to
be reduced to 3.7% this year and 2.2% in 2016/17. It was 10.2% of national
income in 2010.
'Britain has turned the corner and left the age of irresponsibility behind,' he
said.
He predicted that a current budget deficit surplus would be reached by 2019/20.
(The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES
July 9, 2015
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Markets subscribers.
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Access to details on worldwide oil and gas projects is provided at a substantial
discount to RO, UF, MF World Markets subscribers.
(Listed by most current date)
ExxonMobil Begins Oil Production Ahead of Schedule at Kizomba Satellites Phase 2
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Enterprise and Occidental Petroleum to Build Natural Gas Processing Facility in
Delaware Basin
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Keppel FELS Delivers Newbuild Jackup Kukulkan to Pemex
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Petroceltic Awarded Rig Contract for the Ain Tsila Project
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
EMC Signs $15 Mln Maintenance Contract with Zubair Field
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Wood Group Secures EnQuest North Sea Contract
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
EMAS AMC Clinches Several Global Projects Totaling $55 Mln
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Companies Collaborate on Exploration Project in the Barents Sea
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
BP to Sell UK Gas Pipeline Stake to Infrastructure Fund
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
NY Paper Mill, NG Advantage to Get Natural Gas by Truck after Scrapping Pipeline
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
ExxonMobil Subsidiaries to Pay Nearly $5 Mln for Arkansas Oil Spill
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Technip Awarded FEED Contract for Liuhua Fields in China
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Repsol Makes New Gas Discovery in Algeria
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Eni Doubles Output in Egypt’s Western Desert
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Fluor Awarded $1 Bln Contract by Dominion Virginia Power to Build Natural
Gas-Fired Power Station
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Pipeline Survey Approved in Part of West Virginia National Forest
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Oil and Gas Pipeline Company Caliber Midstream Partners Seeks Sale
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
South Dakota April Hearing on Keystone XL Pipeline Delayed
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
EU Gas under Pressure as Ukraine Signals Russian Return
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
TransCanada Seeks U.S. Permit on Upland Line as Keystone Waits
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
French Gas Giant GDF Suez Changes Name to "Engie"
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Africa’s Aliko Dangote Courts Blackstone Group to Boost Nigerian Gas
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Italy Approves TAP Gas Pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Eminent Domain Legislation Advances in Iowa Legislature
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Energy Recovery Commences Field Trials of Hydraulic Fracturing VorTeq™ Pump
Protection System
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Technip Subsidiary, Tipiel Awarded Contract for Gas Pipeline in Peru
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Ovivo Awarded $9 Mln Contract to Supply High Specification Water Equipment for
Offshore Platform
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Howard Energy Partners Expands in Brownsville, TX with New Bulk Liquid Terminal
Facility
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
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World Municipal Wastewater Project News Provided Monthly –
June 2015
This monthly update is devoted to wastewater infrastructure news around the
world, outside of the United States and Canada, and is meant to complement
McIlvaine's RO, UF, MF World Markets Updates.
AFRICA
Algeria: Water Minister Announces Plan to Build Over 100 New WWTPs by 2019
ASIA
China: SIIC Environment Awarded US$10 Million WWTP Project in Wuhan
India: Pune Approves Plan to Build 11 New Sewage Treatment Plants
India: Delhi Initiates Pilot Project to Turn Sewage into Drinking Water
Malaysia: Salcon Awarded US$6.4 Million WWTP Upgrade Contract
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Seeks US$900 Million to Build 4 WWTPs
Vietnam: Hanshin E&C Awarded US$35 Million WWTP Project in Hue
EUROPE
Finland: EIB backs €100 Million State-of-the-Art WWTP near Helsinki
France: Veolia Subsidiary Awarded €79 Million Contract to Upgrade WWTP in Paris
LATIN AMERICA
Colombia: Veolia to Build WWTP in Monteria under Renewed Service Contract
MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain: VA Tech Wabag Awarded US$92 Million Wastewater Treatment Project
Jordan: As Samra WWTP to Generate Power from Wastewater Sludge
Oman: Doosan Awarded Contract for Phase 2 of Al Ansab STP
Saudi Arabia: FCC Aqualia Awarded O&M Contract for Two Largest WWTPs in Mecca
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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES
July 2015
AMERICAS
Chemical
• Albemarle Begins Commissioning of New Lithium Carbonate Production Plant in
Chile
• Honeywell Resins and Chemicals Breaks Ground on New Resin Manufacturing Line
in Virginia
Iron/steel/metalworking
Permits
• Alcoa Massena Operations Title V Air Permit Renewal
• Alcoa Wenatchee Works Air Operating Permit
• Alcoa Davenport Works PSD Construction Permit
• Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products Air Permit Renewal and Revision
• AZZ Incorporated Announces Plan to Build New "Greenfield" Galvanizing Services
Plant in Reno, Nevada
Mining
• Capstone Mining Receives Approval of Environmental Impact Assessment for Santo
Domingo Project in Chile
Waste to Energy
• $4.9 Million Grant from California Energy Commission Awarded for Forest
Biomass Gasification Plant in North Fork, CA
• Viaspace Signs EPC Supervision Agreement for 12 MW Giant King Grass Power
Plant in Nicaragua
Other Industries
Permits
• Amphenol Printed Circuits Existing Permit Renewal
• Thomas & Betts Electrical Fittings Plating Permit Modification
• Henkel to Double Detergents Production Capacity in Mexico
ASIA
Chemical
• Sumitomo Announces Battery-Separator Capacity Expansion, New Plant in Korea
• Messer Commissions Second Krypton and Xenon Production Unit in China
• Linde to Install World’s Largest Onsite Fluorine Plant in South Korea
• BASF Inaugurates New Plant for High Performance Ultramid® in China
• Celanese to Construct VAE Emulsions Unit in Singapore
• Solvay Launches Silica Plant Construction in South Korea to Meet Energy Saving
Tire Demand
• Showa Denko to Build Hydrogen Fluoride Facility in China; Doubled Japan
Capacity
Waste to Energy
• ANDRITZ to Supply New Power Boiler for the Pohang Waste-to-Energy Plant, South
Korea
EMEA
Chemical
• WACKER Starts up New Production Plant for Specialty Monomers at Burghausen
• Air Liquide Starts Up Large Hydrogen Production Unit in Germany
• Sasol’s Wax Expansion Project Phase I Successfully Commissioned
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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There
are thousands of projects in the database.
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.
FUEL: Oil
Startup Date Location Fuel Comment Project Title
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Chapainawabganj power plant-Bangladesh Power
Development Board
Unknown Bangladesh Madanganj-Summit Power
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Sedpur power project
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Dohar power plant
Unknown Bangladesh Barisal power plant-Summit Industrial
Unknown Kenya Rabai power plant-Kenya Power and Lighting Co.
Unknown Panama heavy fuel oil, 3% S Miraflores expansion
Unknown Saudi Arabia heavy fuel, light crude as backup Yanbu power plant
Unknown Uganda heavy fuel Tororo power plant-Albatross Energy
Online Kenya diesel Nairobi diesel plant
Online NC Buxton 1-5-North Carolina Elec. Mem. Corp.
Cancelled IL Elwood CFB-Indeck Energy
2017 Saudi Arabia Jeddah South supercritical power plant-Saudi Electricity Co.
2015 Estonia shale Narva oil shale CFB power plants-Eesti Energia
2015 Niger diesel Goroubanda diesel power plant
2015 Saudi Arabia Heavy fuel oil Rabigh 6 - Saudi Electricity Co
2015 Vietnam O Mon 2 power plant-Can Tho Thermal Power Co.
2014 Jordan heavy and light fuel oil Al Manakher power plant-Amman Asia Electric
Power
2014 Jordan heavy fuel oil, distillate IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant-AES Corp.
2012 Bangladesh PowerPacMutiara Jamalpur power plant
2012 Bangladesh Kodda-BPDB-RPCL Powergen
2011 Bangladesh furnace Gopalganj peaking power plant
2011 Bangladesh Ghorasal rental power plant-Aggreko
2011 Bangladesh HFO Dohazari power plant
2011 Bangladesh Desh Energy power plant in northern region
2011 Bangladesh HFO Hathazari peaking power plant
2010 Bangladesh diesel Khulna project-Aggreko
2010 Brazil Campina Grande power plant-Borborema Energetica
2010 Brazil heavy fuel oil Geramar 1,2-Geradora de Energia do Maranhao
2010 Brazil heavy fuel oil Termeletrica Viana SA power project
2010 Pakistan furnace Lilian Town power project-Private Power and Infrastructure
Board
2010 Pakistan heavy fuel oil Lahore power project-Nishat Power
2010 Saudi Arabia crude Shuqaiq Water and Desalination Project
2009 Cameroon heavy fuel oil Dibamba power project-AES (Kribi Power)
2009 Pakistan Lahore diesel cogen plant
2009 Sudan Kosti power project-National Electricity Corp.
2008 Brazil diesel Salvador-Energetica Camacari Muricy ISA power plant
2008 Greece Sitia-Public Power Corp.
2008 Pakistan Residual fuel oil Morgah-Attock Oil Group
2007 Saudi Arabia crude Shutata
2007 Uganda Heavy oil Namanve
2006 El Salvador diesel Colon diesel engine power plant-Comision Hidroelectrica
del Rio Lempa
2005 Cuba crude Santa Cruz
2004 Estonia shale Eesti CFB repower
2004 Honduras heavy fuel oil Pavana III-Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo
2004 Sudan diesel Khartoum diesel engine plant
2004 Thailand Krabi-EGAT
2003 Dominican Republic Azua-Paliza-Viyella Group and Caterpillar Inc.
2003 Saudi Arabia Enelpower SpA plant
2002 Guatemala heavy fuel oil or emulsified fuel San Jose-Duke Energy
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