Consolidation in the World’s Sedimentation and Centrifugation Market
Sales of sedimentation and centrifugation equipment will rise to $7.3 billion in
2015. A small but growing percentage of the sales will be achieved by
international companies. There have been many acquisitions over the years.
Evoqua Water Technologies, formerly Siemens Water Technologies is the prime
example. This company includes more than one hundred acquisitions over the
years. Most recently, Siemens sold its water and waste group to AEA Investors
LP, New York, USA, for 640 million Euros.
In their continuing analysis in Sedimentation and Centrifugation World Markets,
McIlvaine predicts that the international companies who will be most successful
will be those who become leaders in the Chinese market. Asia will account for 55
percent of the market next year.
China will account for more than 50 percent of the Asian market and more than 25
percent of the total market.
International companies have made the most progress in gaining market share in
the centrifuge segment which will exceed $500 million next year.
Andritz is an example of an international company which has expanded through a
combination of organic and acquisition growth. An early acquisition of a belt
filter press manufacturer was complimented by acquisitions of centrifuge
companies. The corporation saw the potential in China many years ago and has
positioned itself well in that country. As of the end of the first quarter 2014
Andritz had achieved.
Subject Meur
Order Backlog 370
First Quarter Sales 124
Ebita 2.5
Employees 2,843
First quarter orders included:
• Three high performance centrifuges for a Texas municipal wastewater plant,
• Gypsum centrifuges for FGD system in Chinese power plant,
• Decanter centrifuge orders from a bisphenol A (BPA) producer in China,
• Decanter centrifuges for polyoxymethylene (PCM) manufacturer in Saudi Arabia,
• Separators for tea manufacturing facility in China.
It is significant that three of five major orders in the first quarter were for
Chinese plants.
Andritz is showing the way for international sedimentation and centrifugation
suppliers.
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Upgrading Coal Plants around the World Is the Best and Quickest Way to Reduce
CO2
The reality is that coal will remain a major fuel source for electricity
generation for the next several decades. Coal generators will continue to be the
leading source of CO2 emissions. Making these plants more efficient is the
easiest way to reduce not only CO2 but all the pollutants. The cost and benefits
of an efficiency improvement program are provided in the McIlvaine report,
Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis and Forecast. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
A new study from IEA released in July 2014, cites the Chinese example as the
model. The Chinese are now anticipating an economic plant life of 25 years as
opposed to 40 years used as the EU model and even longer in the U.S. China is
replacing small old plants with new ultrasupercritical designs. These designs
all have the latest air pollution control equipment. China realizes that
technological improvements make existing plants obsolete after 2.5 decades. Who
would argue that the economic life of an automobile is more than 25 years?
IEA points out that a 25-year economic life model completely changes the
priorities for CO2 reduction in many countries of the world. This is
particularly true for the U.S. which has the oldest coal fleet.
The “Clean Power Plan” just announced by U.S. EPA relies on improving energy
efficiency at old coal-fired power plants. That is the equivalent of trying to
make a sixty year old gas guzzler as efficient as a 2014 model hybrid. The clear
choice is to scrap the gas guzzler and buy a new car. This is also the obvious
way to meet the EPA goals relative to coal-fired power. In fact, the new
coal-fired power plant solution is a win-win situation for all sides because:
• The environmental goals are exceeded,
• There is a big stimulus to the U.S. economy,
• Electricity rates are lower than with any other plan,
• Because of the twenty-five year optimum life of a coal-fired power plant,
there will be a whole new set of options in 2045.
• Use of vertical space. The average power plant already has stacks many
hundreds of feet high. Kiewit has an innovative use of the grain tower design to
build 80 foot diameter modules which are 400 feet high. So innovations such as
this will result in cost effective upgrades.
• Upgrades/replacements are more efficient and, therefore, produce more
electricity for a given footprint.
• Use of new technology such as catalytic filters. This filter combines
particulate filtration and NOx reduction in one unit greatly reducing space
requirements and retrofit costs.
• Use of treated municipal wastewater for cooling and other purposes. Nearly all
existing power plants are within 70 miles of enough treated municipal wastewater
to supply their water needs.
• Zero liquid discharge systems. Upgraded power plants will not have water
discharges.
• Co-generation and reduction of emissions from other sources. Great Rivers
Energy has Blue Flint ethanol plant on-site. The ethanol plant has no boiler and
no emissions since it uses waste heat from the power plant.
• Supplementing coal with other fuels for optimum cost and environmental
improvements. Gasified municipal waste and biomass can be used as re-burn fuels
to reduce NOx.
Since all sides benefit, there is every reason for agreement, fast track siting
of new power plants and simultaneous retirement of old power plants.
The “Clean Power Plan” proposed by the Obama Administration seeks to achieve a
30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from existing electric generating units by
2030 based on a 2005 baseline. States must show “meaningful progress” by 2020.
With a strategy of coal-fired power plant replacement, this progress and
compliance with the timelines will be assured.
The air pollution impact of upgrading the old fleet to supercritical efficiency
would be a reduction equivalent to 2.4 billion tons of CO2. The validity of this
calculation is easily determined by using the EPA cost justification values.
CO2, various air toxics and each criteria pollutant is assigned a monetary
value, so this creates a common metric. There are other environmental benefits.
The upgraded coal-fired power plants would not generate the water and solid
waste caused by the old power plants, so total environmental impact would be the
equivalent of 5 billion tons of CO2.
For more information on Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis and
Forecast, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/113-n043
Headlines for Utility E-Alert – July 25, 2014
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1184 – July 25, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL – US
• Missouri Town Passes Proposed Resolution to end Coal use at Two Power Plants
• Sierra Club presses IPL to retire Coal-fired Power Plant
COAL – WORLD
• Beijing closes Coal-fired Power Plant to cut Pollution
• ACWA to build Coal-fired Power Plant in Mozambique
BIOMASS
• B&W Vølund awarded $80 Million Contract for Biomass Boiler System in Denmark
GAS/OIL – US
• NTE Energy secures investment for Three Natural Gas-fired Generation Projects
Totaling up to 1,470 MW
• Texas Commission to issue permits to Invenergy for Ector County Energy Center
• FGE, Starwood to build two 747 MW CCGT facilities in Texas
GAS/OIL – WORLD
• GE to supply Gas Turbine for CHP Power Plant in Russia
• Conversion of Bataan (Philippines) Nuclear Power Plant to Natural Gas
• MHPS and HCH jointly receive Order for H-25 Gas Turbine for Ningbo Kefeng
Thermal Power Co. in China
• Saudi Electricity signs Four Contracts for Gas-fired Power Projects worth
SR4.361 Billion
• Eesti Energia orders 30,000 Filter Bags from BWF Envirotec for Oil Shale-fired
Power Plant
• Mexico's CFE to tender $2.8 Billion in Power Plant, Pipeline Projects
CO2
• $19.5 Million Carbon Capture Pilot Project to be located at Kentucky
Coal-fired Power Plant
• FutureGen Clean Coal Power Project wins Appeals Court ruling
• Utilities to host proposed Carbon Lab at Wyoming Coal-fired Power Plant
NUCLEAR
• US Senate Panel approves Vietnam Nuclear Agreement
• Egypt plans Tender for First Nuclear Power Plant
BUSINESS
• Potential $200 Billion Market to convert Simple Cycle Gas Turbines to Combined
Cycle Operation
• Commercial Air Filter Sales to Approach $2 Billion in 2015
HOT TOPIC HOUR
• Wet Calcium FGD was the Hot Topic on July 24
• “Mercury Sorbent Options” Hot Topic Hour on July 31 will focus on the Dry
Sorbents Used to Capture Mercury
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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