A Step Forward In Ways to Sell and Purchase Power and Environmental Products

Digital improvements are opening the door for new ways to sell and buy power and environmental products. The challenge is to harness this new technology to better provide what McIlvaine calls the 4A system (4A’s.).  This system delivers the 4 knowledge needs:  Alerts, Answers, Analysis and Advancement.

Alerts are emailed to the specific beneficiaries.  Focused websites provide a comparison of the all the decision options to facilitate the best choice.  These sites provide instant answers. There is a distinction between information needed for near-term decisions and information which may prove useful in the future.  Advancement or training can embrace both the near-term needs and the education for future responsibility.  Live and recorded webinars play a big role in providing the 4A’s.

Focus is the distinction which makes the 4A’s unique.  A purchaser of filter media for coal-fired boilers needs entirely different information than a purchaser of filter media for coal dust at transfer points. On the other hand, the supplier of filters may need both. He also needs routes to market.  4A’s provides this focus.

Two complete systems are now available for purchasers and specifiers:

Power Plant Systems and Components

Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions

These are free-of-charge to any power plant.  Complete programs for suppliers are also available.

Coal:  42EI Utility Tracking System and 42EIC Chinese Utility Plans

Gas:  59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program

A number of new systems are under construction.  At this time the following sites are accessible at no charge to anyone: Continuous Analyses

For more information on subscriptions and contributions to the 4A’s contact: Bob McIlvaine at 847-784-0012 ext. 112 or email: rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com.

Chinese Air and Water Monitoring Revenues to Exceed $5 Billion By 2019

Rapid growth in the market for air and water monitoring in China will result in supplier revenues exceeding $5 billion by 2019.   This is the latest forecast in Air and Water Monitoring: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.   (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Construction of new Chinese facilities which will potentially harm air and water is greater than the aggregates in any other region of the world.  The existing air and water quality is poor. Smog is a major health problem.  The per capita rain fall in China is only 25 percent of the U.S. 

The Chinese government has recognized the serious nature of the problem and is moving fast to correct it.  Requirements for monitoring have moved from lenient to stringent.

China is starting to mirror Los Angeles in its regulatory framework.  Guangzhou and Shanxi have passed rules which are tougher than the national regulations in the EU and U.S.

The new mercury regulations are as tough as those in the U.S.  This ultra-low emission program sets limits for SO₃. By contrast, no other country has SO₃ limits.  The particulate matter limits are also the lowest.  The U.S. offers the option of using PM as a surrogate for toxic metals.  Plants who want to avoid measuring the individual metals can opt for a particulate limit close to the 5 mg/Nm3.  The very low NO_x and SO₂ limits are closer to the Los Angeles requirements than any of the more lenient national regulations.

Suppliers of air and water monitoring systems will face the same complexity in China which they face in the U.S.  They will need to understand the city and province requirements as well as the national requirements.

For more information on Air and Water Monitoring: World Market, click on:   http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/106-n031

Headlines for Utility E-Alert –December 12, 2014        

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1203 – December 12, 2014

Table of Contents

COAL – US

·       Hoot Lake Power Plant will close in 2020

·       Duke becomes Sole Owner of East Bend to replace Capacity after Miami Fort is retired

COAL – WORLD

·       Head of RWE warns Germany of Problems with Power Supply if Coal-fired Power is cut along with Nuclear

·       EGAT plans Coal-fired Power Plants in Songkhla and Krabi Provinces, Thailand

·       Chinese Power Plants challenged to meet Low Emission Limits

·       PT Indo Tambangraya Mega Tbk to build 100 MW Power Plant in Indonesia

GAS/OIL – US

·       Another Petition filed against Footprint Power’s 647 MW Salem Harbor Project

·       Long-Term Power Purchase Agreement for Kings Mountain Project

GAS/OIL – WORLD

·       Troubled Dabhol Power Plant (Maharashtra, India) to be revived

·       GE’s improved 6F.01 Technology to help meet Energy Needs in Guangxi Province, China

·       500 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant for Qeshm, Iran

·       SANTERRE to build 200 MW Power Plant in Tema, Ghana

·       Alstom to upgrade 320 MW Kwinana Combined Cycle Station in Western Australia

NUCLEAR

·       China set to resume Nuclear Power Plant Licensing

·       Russia may build More Nuclear Power Plants in India than Previously Agreed On

·       Rosatom has Finland’s Approval to build 1200 MW Hanhikivi 1 Nuclear Power Plant

·       Feasibility Study for Nuclear Power Plant in Kazakhstan

·       Twin Buttes Enterprises proposes Nuclear Power Plant in Idaho

·       Atomenergoprom to finish Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary

BUSINESS

·       AUMA provides Actuators for 660 MW Ledvice in the Czech Republic

·       Oil Price Fall Will Boost Gas Turbine Purchases

·       Western Europe Industrial Valve Purchases to Exceed $8.6 Billion Next Year

HOT TOPIC HOUR

·       “Boiler Feedwater Treatment” Thursday, December 18, 2014, at 10 a.m. CST

·       Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects.  These Webinars are free of charge to owner/operators of the plants. They are also free to McIlvaine Subscribers of Power Plant Air Quality Decisions and Utility Tracking System.  The cost for others is $300.00 per webinar.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours.  We welcome your input relative to suggested additions.

Click here for the Subscriber and Power Plant or Cement Plant Owner/Operator Registration Form

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Bob McIlvaine
President
847-784-0012 ext 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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