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$2.9 Billion Market for Filtration and Separation in the Food Industry
The 2016 world market for food filtration and separation hardware and
consumables will exceed $2.9 billion. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine
Company through iteration of data in a number of its related reports.
The expenditure for consumables will be nearly twice the hardware investment.
One-third of the consumables expenditures will be for replacement cartridges
followed by cross-flow filtration membranes. The third largest purchase will be
for filter cloths, followed next by filter bags. Rounding out the consumables
list are ion exchange resins and filter belts.
Centrifuges head the list of hardware expenditures.
Ranking Hardware Type
1 Centrifuges
2 Cross-flow filtration hardware
3 Filter presses
4 Cartridge hardware e.g. housings
5 Bag hardware e.g. housings
6 Leaf, gravity and drum filters
The largest application segment is dairy, fruits and vegetables, sugar beet,
corn and grain. Dairy represents more than one-third of the total in this
segment. Separation of milk and cream in centrifuges is one of the oldest
applications. Membrane technology is replacing leaf filters with diatomaceous
earth in many plants in this category.
The market is growing at rates slightly above that of GDP as filtration is used
to create new products as well as improve the quality of existing products. Fat
free and non-alcoholic beverages are two examples of new products created by
filtration and separation.
A few centrifuge suppliers dominate this hardware segment. At the other end of
the spectrum, there are thousands of companies sharing the consumable cartridge
market in the food industry.
McIlvaine derives its food filtration and separation forecasts by extracting
information and insights from the following reports:
N024 Cartridge Filters: World Market
N020 RO, UF, MF World Market
N006 Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets
N005 Sedimentation and Centrifugation World Markets
Alternatively to purchasing the individual reports, one can choose to purchase
application focused reports such as Food Filtration and Separation. This is one
of many customized multi-client reports available from McIlvaine. For more
information contact Bob McIlvaine at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
Gas Turbine Intake Filter Sales To Exceed $1 Billion By 2021
Sales of gas turbine intake filters will double over the next six years
according to the McIlvaine Company. The high rate of revenue growth will be a
function of not only robust unit growth but double digit growth in the revenue
per unit.
Gas turbine power generation is increasingly attractive due to the low price of
natural gas, the environmental restrictions on coal-fired power and the ability
for system suppliers to deliver new plants within 24 months. The latest high
performance turbines provide improved efficiency and lower CO2 emissions per
unit of energy produced. However, the rotating equipment is subject to
substantial corrosion and erosion from small particles.
As a result, the industry is moving from lower cost filters to those with HEPA
efficiency. These filters often cost twice that of the lower efficiency filters
and have somewhat shorter lives. This additional cost is more than offset by
lower part replacement and less frequent washing. The specific climactic
conditions vary from the arctic to the desert and from relatively clean air to
air contaminated by hydrocarbons and fine particulate or salt water spray in the
case of turbines on offshore rigs and coastal locations.
There are multiple approaches used to remove the air contaminants. In general
they can be divided into static and pulsed filter systems. In static filter
systems, there is a pre filter which captures most of the dust. It is low in
cost and frequently replaced. The downstream high efficiency filter has a long
life time due to the lower dust concentration to which it is exposed. There is a
significant quantity of microglass media used in the high efficiency filters.
The pulsed filter approach provides filtration of coarse and fine particles in
one device. The filter surface is periodically cleaned with a reverse pulse of
air. Membrane filter media is commonly used with this approach.
The replacement filter market is larger than the new filter market.
NAFTA is the largest regional market with 34 percent of the gas turbine
installed base. Western Europe is the next largest segment but plants are
shutting down there because of the high cost of gas in the region.
McIlvaine offers a customized program for suppliers which include detailed
forecasts as well as information on all the existing and new opportunities. For
more information on this program click on: 59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle
Supplier Program.
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