Control Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities is Hot Topic Hour on February 7, 2013

At 10 a.m. on February 7, 2013, McIlvaine will conduct a "Hot Topic Hour" on control valves for power applications. This will be an interactive discussion, so we encourage those of you with questions and perspective to join us. The basic structure will be:

Specific power plant types:

Coal, nuclear, combined cycle, concentrated solar, and geothermal

Processes:

Combustion, heat exchange, water treatment, boiler feedwater, wastewater treatment, air pollution control, solids handling

Technologies:

Valve types, automation and optimization (smart valves), valve materials

Markets:

Size by region and combustion type

 

Tom Tschanz and Bob McIlvaine will be leading the discussion and displaying diagrams and other material to facilitate the discussion.

This service is free to our Power Plant Decisions, Valve World Markets, Utility Upgrade Tracking and Fossil and Nuclear World Markets and certain other subscribers. There is a $125 charge for others.

To register for the February 7, 2013 "Hot Topic Hour" at 10 a.m. Central time, click on:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

 

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursday at 10 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System. The cost is $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for non-subscribers.

 DATE

Non-Subscribers Cost

SUBJECT

 Webinar Type

February 1, 2013

No charge

Shale Markets & Instrumentation      

 Free

February 7, 2013

$125.00

Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities      

 Power

February 14, 2013

$125.00

NOx Control for Gas Turbines      

 Power

February 21, 2013

$125.00

Monitoring  and Controlling Boiler Steam Cycle Chemistry      

 Power

February 28, 2013

$125.00

Implementation of the Utility MACT Rule      

 Power

March 7, 2013

$125.00

HRSG Design, Operation and Maintenance Considerations      

 Power

March 14, 2013

$125.00

Inlet Air Pretreatment for Gas Turbines      

 Power

March 21, 2013

$125.00

Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options      

 Power

March 28, 2013

$125.00

Mercury Measurement and Control      

 Power

April 4, 2013

$125.00

Fabric Selection for Particulate Control      

 Power

April 11, 2013

$125.00

Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines     

 Power

April 18, 2013

$125.00

Multi-pollutant Control Technology      

 Power

April 25, 2013

$125.00

Control Technologies for Fine Particulate Matter     

 Power

May 2, 2013

$125.00

Flyash Pond and Wastewater Treatment Issues     

 Power

May 9, 2013

$125.00

Clean Coal Technologies     

 Power

May 16, 2013

$125.00

Power Plant Automation and Control     

 Power

May 23, 2013

$125.00

Cooling Towers      

 Power

May 30, 2013

$400.00

Air Pollution Control Markets (geographic trends, regulatory developments, competition, technology developments)     

   Market Intelligence

June 6, 2013

$125.00

Report from Power-Gen Europe (update on regulations, speaker and exhibitor highlights)     

 Power

June 13, 2013

$125.00

Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers     

 Power

June 20, 2013

$125.00

Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC     

 Power

June 27, 2013

$400.00

Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables      

   Market Intelligence

July 11, 2013

$125.00

New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control     

 Power

July 18, 2013

$125.00

Measurement and Control of HCl     

 Power

July 25, 2013

$125.00

GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement

 Power

August 1, 2013

$125.00

Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards     

 Power

August 8, 2013

$125.00

Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation      

 Power

August 15, 2013

$125.00

Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater     

 Power

August 22, 2013

$125.00

Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology     

 Power

August 29, 2013

$125.00

Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications     

 Power

To register for the Hot Topic Hour, click on:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

 

Headlines for the January 25, 2013 – Utility E-Alert 

 UTILITY E-ALERT

#1109– January 25, 2013  

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

COAL – WORLD 

GAS/OIL – WORLD

 

NUCLEAR 

BUSINESS

HOT TOPIC HOUR 

For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72

 

Desalination Flow Control and Treatment Revenues to Exceed $9 Billion by 2020

Desalination plant flow control and treatment expenditures are now just 1.5 percent of the $340 billion dollar flow control and treatment market. While the market as a whole will increase at 5.5 percent, the growth in the desalination sector will be nearly twice as high. These are the conclusions reached by the McIlvaine   Company in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Cumulative desalination treatment capacity will double by 2020:

 

Year

Cumulative Capacity 

Million m3/day

2005

  40

2010

  65

2015

100

2020

160

Flow control and treatment revenues will grow from $4 billion in 2013 to $9 billion/yr by 2020. The substantial revenue increases are a function of repairs and upgrades as well as new capacity. When the installed base is growing so rapidly, there is a corresponding growth in repair parts and consumables.

Another reason that the flow control and treatment revenues will grow rapidly is the increasing preference for reverse osmosis vs. thermal treatment.  The filtration and pre-filtration steps represent a significant portion of the total expenditure when desalination is accomplished with RO.

There are substantial repair part revenues associated with the primary and energy recovery pumps.  Valve part revenues are also significant. Dow Chemical benefits with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue generated by replacement of existing RO modules. The company is also replacing alternative pre-treatment filters with UF.  Chemical cleaning of the RO system is reduced. The result is a reduction in life cycle costs. 

Upgrades to existing thermal systems will generate substantial revenues. Yokogawa Electric completed a project in 2012 to replace the control systems for the boilers, distillation unit and auxiliary facilities at the Shuwaikh seawater desalination plant. The Centum series integrated production control system which makes this plant operation more efficient and reliable. It replaced the aging control systems for three boilers, three distillation units and auxiliary facilities. The Yokogawa Centum series integrated production system controls all plant facilities. Also included were a Prosafe-RS safety instrumented system for the burner management systems on the boilers, a PRM integrated device management software package to monitor plant facilities and predict when maintenance is necessary.

At the Perth Seawater Desalination Plant at Kwinana, Australia Siemens automation technology provided the opportunity to greatly reduce the enormous quantity of copper cabling and connections normally required for a plant of this scale. The quantity of copper has been reduced by using intelligent communications and fibre-optic cable. Much less cable in the plant results in lower capital costs and improved reliability. Using a combination of leading-edge software, hardware and diagnostics, plant operators can predict maintenance needs more efficiently.

For more information on Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71.

 

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rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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