Market for Particle Separation from Liquids Will Exceed $46 Billion This Year
Revenues from the sales of filters and gravity separation equipment and media will exceed $46 billion this year. Nearly half the total will be generated in the cartridge segment. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company by aggregating its forecasts in four of its market reports.
2012 World Revenues for Particle Separation Equipment and Media
|
Product |
$ Billions |
|
Cartridge |
21 |
|
Sedimentation/Centrifugation |
8 |
|
Cross-flow Membranes |
10 |
|
Macrofiltration |
7 |
|
Subtotal |
46 |
The cartridge market is split between hydraulic fluid and mobile at $7 billion and stationary at $14 billion. A substantial portion of the stationary market is residential and includes the carbon block filters in purification of water used in ice making as well as the cartridges used in pitchers.
A substantial portion of the sedimentation and centrifugation market is in the municipal sector. Clarifiers and thickeners are used to purify drinking water and to separate sewage in wastewater plans. The decanter centrifuges are widely used for dewatering sewage sludge. The pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries are the biggest users of the disc type centrifuge which owes it evolution to the original milk separator.
Cross-flow membrane revenues are growing at higher rates than revenues in the other segments. Desalination of seawater is the biggest application. However, the combination of membranes and biological treatment in the membrane bioreactor is proving to be a cost effective way to treat municipal wastewater. It has been widely used in the food industry as well.
Macrofiltration is a category which includes belt filter presses, sand filters, bag filters and drum filters. It also includes automatic backwashing filters. The rapidly increasing popularity of this design is due to the small unit size and ability to compete with cartridges and bag filters. The advantage is that the filters are self cleaning.
Asia is the leading purchaser of particle separation equipment. China is rapidly becoming a major producer both of equipment and media.
For more information on the individual reports comprising these totals, click on:
Cartridge Filters: World Market
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/water.html#nO24Liquid Filtration and Media World Market:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n006RO, UF, MF World Market
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#no20Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets,
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n005Air and Water Monitoring Terms - Decisive Classification Needed
Analyzers to measure constituents in various gases and fluids are each designed for specific chemicals or physical properties. Since there are hundreds of different chemicals and many physical properties, there are many unique instrument designs. Laboratory instruments vary considerably from those used by field testers or those used for continuous measurement in processes. There are many different operating principles employed. Instruments used for stack gas measurement differ from those used at the fence line or those used for water or process fluids. The end result is that there are thousands of unique instruments.
There are more than 5,000 suppliers of instruments to measure gases and fluids worldwide. There are 3,000 instrument makers in China alone. Given the language inconsistencies, it is a real challenge to determine which of these companies make an instrument which fits the specific needed criteria.
The McIlvaine Company (
www.mcilvainecompany.com) is developing a system which it will make available free of charge to anyone. In return, it is asking for input to make the system better. Associations, suppliers and research institutions all have niche expertise which can be applied both to the technology and the languages. Here are the details:A decisive classification system in Chinese, English and other languages will allow monitor purchasers in developing countries to efficiently utilize the world’s existing knowledge. Monitoring products need to be classified by the way decisions are made. For example, the new U.S. MATS rule utilizes PM mass monitors as a surrogate for measuring toxic metals. However, Pall was able to convince EPA that their multi-metals analyzer was a cost effective alternative. Scientific classification does not typically list PM mass monitors and multi-metals analyzers as siblings but Decisive Classification does in this instance.
The system identifies monitoring products by application (there is a big difference between shale oil and oil shale), function (analyzer, sample system, etc.) medium (ambient air, stack gas), properties measured, (ammonia, arsenic), measurement parameters (ppb, ppm, count) operating principle (optical, electrochemical) and mode of use (handheld, portable, etc.).
It is also necessary to identify financial entities and their subsidiaries with unique numbers. Each subsidiary with unique products should have its own unique number. It is further necessary to provide the listings in Chinese, English and other languages.
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Entity |
Identification Number |
Entity Name in Chinese |
|
Andritz |
963 |
佛山安德里茨技 术有限公 |
|
Andritz KMPT |
963-01 |
? |
|
Andritz Pulp & Paper |
963-02 |
? |
|
Andritz Separation |
963-03 |
? |
|
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Details on this initiative and instructions for participating are found at:
Decisive Classification Initiative for Monitoring products and services.AIR & WATER POLLUTION
MONITORING NEWSLETTER
May 2012
No. 391
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