Thousands of North American Water Treatment Projects are for Replacement
Rather than Growth
Thousands of projects to purify drinking water for municipalities are in
planning and construction. Most of these projects are to replace plants as old
as one hundred years. The number of projects generated by demand growth is
comparatively small. Changing environmental and regulatory requirements are a
third driver. All these projects are tracked in North American Public Water
Plants and People published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
A prime example of replacement of ancient systems is in Sacramento, California
where $240 million has been appropriated to rehabilitate the city’s two major
water treatment plants. Most of the renovation will occur at the 90-year-old
Sacramento River Water Treatment Plant, but work also will be done on the
Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant on the American River in east Sacramento.
The Sacramento River Treatment Plant was built in the 1920s and, officials say,
has outlasted its useful life. It can treat 135 MGD, but utility officials said
they want to increase that capacity to 160 MGD to meet future demands.
Ithaca, New York is finally moving ahead to rebuild a 110 year old plant. The
city began evaluating its options for water service in 1996. In 2005, the
rebuilding of the city’s system or purchasing water from Bolton Point were
identified as the two alternatives for evaluation by the city, and in 2009,
Common Council approved the rebuild option. Site plan review for the $37 million
project was completed last year. The project will put the city in a good
position for the next one hundred years. The plant will use advanced technology
as the first large plant in the area to use membranes for water filtration, a
technology that is becoming more mainstream.
The Southern Delivery System (SDS) will break ground this year for a $125
million facility to treat the raw water that will be pumped from the Pueblo
Reservoir to Colorado Springs.
The SDS water treatment plant, which is being built near Pikes Peak, will be
able to clean 50 MGD of water. Discussion of a regional water delivery system
began more than a decade ago to address the water needs of a growing population
in the Pikes Peak region. The project is estimated to cost $1 billion, but could
come in under budget because of favorable financing conditions.
SDS is expected to be operational in early 2016, and it could take nearly that
long to complete the water treatment plant.
Recently, representatives from HDR, Inc. outlined for the Yankton City, S.D.
Commission approximately $28.7 million in upgrades it believes are necessary for
the community’s water treatment system.
The improvements include:
• decommissioning Water Treatment Plant No. 1 as a treatment facility due to its
74 years of service,
• making improvements to aging equipment in Water Treatment Plant No. 2, which
was built in Riverside Park in 1972,
• adding a new treatment plant adjacent to Treatment Plant No. 2 that would have
the capacity to treat 5 MGD and would become the primary treatment facility, and
• adding a new water source, likely a collector well at Paddle Wheel Point that
could deliver at least 5.8 MGD.
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Desalination Cross-flow Membrane Revenues will rise 50 Percent by 2017
In the next four years, sales of cross-flow membranes and equipment to
desalinate seawater will rise by 50 percent to $4.3 billion/yr. This is the
conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in its RO, UF, MF World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Millions)
Industry 2017
Total 12,651
Chemical 490
Desalination 4,330
Food 300
Metals 389
Mining 141
Oil & Gas 143
Other Industries 842
Pharmaceutical 1,020
Power 780
Pulp & Paper 278
Refining 133
Residential/Commercial 773
Semiconductor 283
Wastewater 370
Water 2,379
Desalination will account for 34 percent of total cross-flow sales of $12.6
billion. This includes the replacement membranes and modules as well as the new
equipment using microfiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. The salt
is removed in the reverse osmosis system but either microfiltration or
ultrafiltration are used to pre-filter the seawater.
The U.S. market is poised to accelerate as cities want a more secure water
supply. San Diego has purchased a system from IDE which will be the largest in
North America. It will process more than 100 million gpd of seawater and produce
more than 50 million gpd of drinking water. Desalination became attractive to
San Diego based on reduced operating cost.
Early desalination membranes removed about 98.4 percent of the salt and required
an extra pass through a second array of filters. According to IDE, they cost
about $500 each and lasted three years. Today’s filters extract 99.8 percent of
salt, cost $350 and can last seven to eight years, making large-scale
desalination feasible. Power-saving devices employ leftover brine to spin
turbines which in turn run pumps, cutting energy use by 45 percent.
There are potentially other technologies in the wings which reduce desalination
costs. Lockheed Martin has developed a special material that may not need as
much energy for filtration as the present polymeric membranes.
Graphene is a substance made of pure carbon. Carbon atoms are arranged in a
regular hexagonal or honeycomb pattern in a one-atom thick sheet. Graphene
researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for developing the
wonder-material.
Lockheed anticipates that their Perforene filters will be able to provide clean
drinking water "at a fraction of the cost of industry-standard reverse osmosis
systems." Perforene is one thousand times stronger than steel, but still has a
permeability that is about one hundred times greater than the best competitive
membrane out in the market according to Lockheed. The company is targeting to
have a prototype to test in a reverse osmosis plant by 2014 or 2015.
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The Big Get Bigger in the $38 Billion Global Pump Industry
The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump
business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each.
According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of
the industry has again accelerated. There have been a number of recent
acquisitions and geographic expansions.
GE, the nineteenth largest pump company, will move several rungs up the ladder
as it acquires Lufkin Industries, Inc., a leading provider of artificial lift
technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of industrial
gears, for approximately $3.3 billion. Artificial lift, used in 94 percent of
the roughly one million oil-producing wells around the world, helps lift
hydrocarbons to the surface in reservoirs with low pressure and improves the
efficiency of naturally flowing wells. Lufkin will broaden GE oil and gas
artificial lift capabilities beyond electric submersible pumps (ESPs) to include
rod lift, gas lift, plunger lift, hydraulic lift, progressive cavity pumps and a
sophisticated array of well automation and production optimization controls and
software. The ESP category of artificial lift is the only lift segment in which
Lufkin does not currently compete.
The world’s fifth largest pump company, Weir, has acquired the R Wales group of
companies (“R Wales”), a Canadian based manufacturer of specialist rubber and
wear resistant linings for the mining, minerals processing and oil sands
industries. The acquisition, which was completed on February 15, 2013, with
Canadian facilities in British Columbia and Ontario and a U.S. facility in
Arizona, R Wales designs and manufactures rubber lining for pipes, tanks, chutes
and hoses and specializes in custom rubber and urethane moulded products,
including slurry pump wear parts and mill liners. In 2012, the Wales Group
generated revenues in excess of C$30m. The acquisition extends Weir’s
aftermarket position in the production and servicing of a wide range of rubber
lined wear components for the North American oil sands and mining sectors and
complements the existing customer base and product portfolio.
Weir has also advanced its global foundry supply chain strategy, completing the
acquisition of the business and assets of the Cheong Foundry in Malaysia on
February 6, 2013. Based near Kuala Lumpur, the facility supplies castings to a
number of industries, including mining and power. The acquisition enables Weir
to add foundry capacity to serve the Asia-Pacific region with high quality
products from a best cost sourcing region. In addition, agreement has been
reached to acquire the plant, equipment and buildings of Xmeco Foundry Pty. Ltd,
a specialist large casting foundry in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Xmeco
expands Weir’s capacity and capability on the African continent, enabling the
full product range to be locally produced.
The third largest pump company, Grundfos, will expand its Indian production
capacity by setting up an additional unit. As part of the expansion plans, with
an initiative of making India as the second home, the company plans to invest Rs.
230 crores in the next five years. Grundfos India has been growing at 30-35
percent since its inception in 1998. With the turnover of Rs. 318 crores in
2012, Grundfos is looking at Rs. 1000 crores turnover in the next five years.
Number twenty-two in the rankings, Pentair, is planning to invest $50 million in
expanding its operations in the UAE. Pentair wants to increase its $400 million
current turnover in the UAE to $1 billion. In particular, the company is looking
to invest in a new pump manufacturing facility in the region.
Number twenty-eight in world ranking, Gorman-Rupp Africa, has purchased the
business of Pumptron with cash generated from operations. Pumptron has been an
international value-added distributor for Gorman-Rupp for over twenty-five years
and will further enhance the company’s continuing international expansion.
Founded in 1986, Pumptron is a provider of water-related pumping solutions
primarily serving the construction, mining, agricultural and municipal markets
in South Africa and, increasingly, throughout other sub-Sahara African
countries. Pumptron is headquartered in Johannesburg with operating locations in
Cape Town and Durban and had approximately $10 million in revenue during its
fiscal year 2012, which includes sales of Gorman-Rupp products.
The Gorman-Rupp subsidiary, National Pump Company, purchased American Turbine
Pump Companies (“ATP”). Founded in 1975, ATP is a group of companies that
collectively are a leading manufacturer and distributor of energy-efficient
vertical turbine and submersible pumps primarily serving agricultural, municipal
and industrial markets both domestically and globally. During 2011, ATP had
approximately $15 million in revenue from sales of its products through its
Lubbock, Texas headquarters and two other locations in Houston, Texas and
Fresno, California.
ITT Corporation has dropped from the top of the leader board when it divested
its Xylem companies. But it is growing again. It has signed an agreement to
acquire Joh. Heinr Bornemann GmbH. Bornemann Pumps is a global provider of
highly engineered pumps and systems for the oil and gas industry. Headquartered
in Germany, Bornemann Pumps has a strong international installed base of
multiphase pumping systems for the oil and gas market. The company also serves
the industrial, food and pharmaceutical sectors. Founded in 1853, Bornemann has
a solid record of growth with estimated fiscal 2012 revenue of €115 million and
employs more than 550 employees globally.
Taco, Inc., of Cranston, RI, has purchased Hydroflo Pumps of Fairview, Tenn.
Taco recently dedicated a $20-million addition to its headquarters in Cranston.
The company, which has sales of $200 million a year, employs about 500 people,
the vast majority at the facility in Cranston, with other workers in Fall River,
Mass. and Ontario, Canada. It makes valves, pumps, tanks and electronics for
heating and cooling. Hydroflo is a manufacturer of vertical and submersible
turbine driven pumps. Hydroflo also operations in Culver, Ind., Marion, Ark.,
Grand Island, Neb, Brownfield, Texas and Fresno, Calif.
CRI Pumps, a Coimbatore, India-based manufacturer and exporter of pumps,
recently signed a business transfer agreement with Pumps & Process Systems of
the U.K. Chief Executive Officer of CRI Chaitanya Koranne said that CRI would
shift the industrial pumping solutions manufacturing facility of Pumps & Process
Systems in the U.K. to Coimbatore soon. CRI Pumps’ annual turnover in 2011-2012
was Rs. 850 crore ($160 million), which was expected to increase to Rs. 1,000
crore this year. Nearly 20 percent of the turnover last year was from exports,
and it was expected to go up substantially with the acquisition of the U.K.
company. Pumps and Process Systems had a strong presence in sectors such as
mining and CRI would be able to tap the opportunities in these areas.
Xylem, the current # l pump supplier has acquired privately held Heartland Pump
Rental & Sales, Inc. for approximately $29 million. Heartland Pump,
headquartered in Carterville, Illinois, has been a strong business partner with
Godwin in dewatering pump rental, services and systems design since 1995. Godwin
is part of the Xylem portfolio. Heartland Pump employs approximately one hundred
people with branches in Evansville, Indiana; Horn Lake, Mississippi; and
Nashville, Tennessee.
The Liebherr Group has acquired concrete pump manufacturer Waitzinger, which is
based in Neu-Ulm, Germany. Waitzinger Baumaschinen was founded in 1991 and
employs a staff of nearly sixty. It specializes in the development and
production of truck-mounted concrete pumps, trailer concrete pumps and truck
mixer concrete pumps. These products will now also be distributed via Liebherr's
international sales and service organization.
There is likely to be a continuation of globalization and consolidation of the
international pump industry in the coming years.
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Headlines for the May 24, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1126 – May 24, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
Allegheny Energy Supply to sell Harrison to Mon Power
NSR Case against Homer City in Appeals Court
PSO proposes Alternate Regional Haze Plan—Retire One Unit at Northeastern in
2016
COAL – WORLD
Formosa Heavy to build 600 MW Leyte and 300 MW Davao Power Plants in
Philippines
Hamon to rebuild ESPs and supply ESPs and FGD to New Power Projects
Chubu could build 600 MW Power Plant in Japan and sell Electricity in TEPCO
Area
GAS/OIL – WORLD
Saudi Aramco invited Bids for 2,400 MW IGCC Power Plant at Refinery in Saudi
Arabia
EDF building Combined Cycle Power Plants in France
Genrent do Brasil to build 70-MW Iquitos in Brazil
Siemens to provide Gas Turbines to Saudi Electricity Co
Wärtsilä to build 110 MW Gas-fired Power Plant in Russia
NUCLEAR
Visaginas Project in Lithuania not Economically Feasible
Algeria plans Nuclear Power Plant by 2025
BUSINESS
G. Edison Holland New Head of Mississippi Power
MHI completes acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Power Systems
MET Licensee has Wet FGD Award in China
Coal regains Some Electric Generation Market Share from Natural Gas
GE Competing with Ecolab, Flowserve, Xylem and Pentair for Top Spot in Fluid
Treatment Market
Market to Remove Mercury from Air is Complex
HOT TOPIC HOUR
“Power Plant Cooling Towers and Cooling Water Issues” was the Hot Topic Hour
on May 23, 2013
“Air Pollution Control Market Opportunities” is the Hot Topic for Thursday,
May 30, 2013
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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“Power Generation in Europe” is the Hot Topic for Thursday, June 6, 2013
At 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 6, the Power-Gen Europe show will have ended and,
since it will be 5 p.m. in Vienna, most participants will be traveling home.
Last year we conducted a webinar from Cologne. This year we will be coordinating
activities from our offices. Bob McIlvaine will be reporting and will invite
contributions from speakers and exhibitors.
There will only be four presentations on air pollution control at the
conference. One will be on SNCR for coal-fired power plants. Another will be on
SCR and a third on fluid bed scrubbers. One presentation will cover FGD design
for coal-fired boilers. There will be a water treatment paper by Nalco.
There are more than 20 exhibitors with an air pollution focus, so we will be
reviewing some of their products. There will be a few water treatment
exhibitors. Ovivo, who was a presenter last week in our hot topic hour, will be
displaying its water intake products.
Much of the focus will be on the future of coal in Europe. There has been a real
turnaround recently as the cost of coal-fired power has proven to be
considerably less than gas. A number of the conference papers are devoted to
carbon capture. On the other hand, there is little evidence that many commercial
power plants will be built in the foreseeable future. So what is the outlook?
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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 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.
2013
DATE SUBJECT
June 6 Report from Power-Gen Europe (update on regulations, speaker and
exhibitor highlights) Power
June 13 Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers
Power
June 20 Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC Power
June 27 Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables Market
Intelligence
July 11 New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control Power
July 18 Measurement and Control of HCl Power
July 25 GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement Power
August 1 Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards Power
August 8 Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation Power
August 15 Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater Power
August 22 Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology Power
August 29 Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications
Power
Sept. 5 Fabric Selection for Particulate Control
Power
Sept. 19 Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines Power
Sept. 26 Multi-Pollutant Control Technology
Power
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