Chinese Valve Purchases to Exceed $10 Billion Next Year

Industrial valve purchases for use in China next year will again grow robustly and surpass $10 billion for the first time. This is the conclusion in Industrial Valves: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Chinese Industrial Valve Revenues ($ Millions)

Bottom of Form

Industry

Classification

2014

 Chemical

 Control

 233

 Chemical

 OnOff

 768

 Electronics

 Control

 6

 Electronics

 OnOff

 25

 Food

 Control

 46

 Food

 OnOff

 183

 Iron & Steel

 Control

 274

 Iron & Steel

 OnOff

 819

 Metals

 Control

 53

 Metals

 OnOff

 161

 Mining

 Control

 108

 Mining

 OnOff

 363

 Oil & Gas

 Control

 81

 Oil & Gas

 OnOff

 473

 Other Electronics

 Control

 3

 Other Electronics

 OnOff

 13

 Other Industries

 Control

 270

 Other Industries

 OnOff

 759

 Pharmaceutical

 Control

 30

 Pharmaceutical

 OnOff

 84

 Power

 Control

 807

 Power

 OnOff

 2,050

 Pulp & Paper

 Control

 205

 Pulp & Paper

 OnOff

 531

 Refining

 Control

 88

 Refining

 OnOff

 252

 Wastewater

 Control

 174

 Wastewater

 OnOff

 515

 Water

 Control

 232

 Water

 OnOff

 578

Total

 

10,184

On/Off valves for the power industry will be the biggest segment. Control valves for the power industry will be the third largest segment and nearly equal to On/Off valves for the iron and steel industry.

The Chinese five-year plan, which will add nearly 45,000 MW/yr of new coal-fired power plants supplemented by an ambitious nuclear program, will result in this very large power segment market.

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Pump Companies Are Expecting a Strong Year In 2013

Industrial pump company revenue growth is predicted to be 3.7 percent this year according to the latest forecasts in the continuously updated McIlvaine report, Pumps World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

 

Continent

2012

2013

%

Total

 37,012

 38,423

3.7

Africa

 1,440

 1,519

4.9

America

 9,965

 10,219

2.5

Asia

 16,932

 17,905

5.9

Europe

 8,675

 8,780

1.2

Growth in Asia will exceed that of other continents. The lowest growth will be in Europe.  However, it should be noted that this is growth in consumption and not production. The pump companies exporting from Europe are expecting higher growth.

In general, the larger pump companies are expecting growth considerably above the mean.

Rankings

Company

2013 Growth %

1

Xylem

11

2

Flowserve

7

3

Grundfos A/S

?

4

Sulzer Ltd.

8

5

Weir Group

5

6

KSB

11

Two of the top six pump companies are expecting double-digit growth. Analysts expect Xylem sales to increase 11 percent this year.  Last year sales were flat but were up 18 percent in 2011 and 12 percent in 2010. However, sales were down 13 percent in 2009.  Flowserve sales are expected to rise over 7 percent this year following sales increases over 5 percent last year and 12 percent in 2011.  Sales were down over 7 percent in 2010.

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$700 Million Market to Measure Particles in Air

Sales of devices to measure particles in the air exceed $700 million. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in its continuously updated Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

The market is very fractured. There are many applications and many types of measurement instruments.

 

Category

Recent Annual

Revenues

$ Millions

Opacity monitors-stack

150  (optical measurement)

Mass monitors-stack

100  with  $300 million bubble coming

Process gas particulate continuous monitors

40  (measure mass)

Broken bag detectors

30  (determine particulate escaping due to  broken filter bags)

Portable method 5 particulate sampler trains

40  (measure weight by collecting sample)

Ambient particulate monitoring stations

50  (measure weight)

Cleanroom  particulate network systems

60  (count particles)

Cleanroom  portable particle counters

40  (count particles)

Continuous indoor air particulate monitoring

50  (count particles)

Printer and other device particulate monitoring

20  (count particles)

Portable particulate monitors-indoor air

60  (count particles)

Biological viable particulate monitors-portable

50  (capture particles for later culture)

Engine test centers (particulate segment)

70  (particulate segment)

Total

760  (plus mass CEM surge)

The biggest segment is a more sophisticated version of the London smoke chart developed over 900 years ago.  The smoke inspector determined whether the stack plume was black, some shade of grey or white.  The digital version of the device today is the opacity monitor.

Many applications need more accurate measurement. Mass monitors determine the weight of particulate in the gas stream. New U.S. EPA requirements for power plants, cement plants and industrial boilers are requiring mass measurement. This will create a several hundred million dollar surge in sales.

A very clean exhaust gas stream still contains millions of particles. In fact, clean normal ambient air contains about 500,000 particles per cubic foot. Semiconductor cleanrooms must maintain an air quality of less than one particle per cubic foot.  There is no mass measurement method that is of sufficient sensitivity. So particle counting is the only option in cleanrooms and indoor work spaces.

There is a great deal of complexity relative to the definitions.   The reported measurements are based on particles of a certain size (generally 0.5 to as low as 0.1 micrometers).  This means that particles below 100 nanometers are not measured.  Generally these small particles are not sufficient in quantity to be considered. However, with nano technology gaining in popularity, there is the potential for the number of nano particles to be significant.

Another problem is the distinction between discrete and total particulate.  New EPA and State rules take into account  condensible as well as discrete particles and call the aggregate "total particulate." There are challenges in making the measurements and challenges in supplying air pollution control equipment to reduce total particulate to the required levels.

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Headlines for the August 2, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1136 – August 2, 2013 

Table of Contents

COAL – US

•                                    Power Plants Requesting MATS Extensions

•                                    Southern committed to 582 MW IGCC Kemper Power Plant

•                                    Navajo wants to shut One Unit, add SCR to Other Two by 2030

•                                    Sixteen States Cited for High SO2 Levels

COAL – WORLD

•                                    Toyo Ink Group to develop 2000 MW Song Hau 2 in Vietnam

•                                    China to build Four Power Plants in the Gadani Power Park, Pakistan

•                                    Pakistan to convert Diesel-fired Power Plants to Coal-firing

•                                    Poyry is Owner’s Engineer for 1,320 MW Phong 1 Power Plant

•                                    Botswana’s African Energy Resources proposes 300 MW Power Plant associated with Coal Mine

•                                    MHI to supply Boilers and Steam Turbines for 1320 MW Chhabra Power Plant in India

•                                    Meralco proposes 50-80 MW Power Plant for Philex Mining Corp. in Philippines

•                                    Sri Lanka exploring Locations for 50 MW Power Plant

•                                    Sepco to build 318 MW Power Plant in Jerada, Morocco

•                                    Ultra Mega Power Projects at Cheyyar and Bedabahal in India should be Awarded in Early 2014

•                                    Ayala to build 3x135 MW Power Plant at Lanao de Norte, Philippines

GAS / OIL – US

•                                    Gemma Power Systems enters into an EPC Agreement with Moxie Patriot LLC for a Gas-fired Power Plant

•                                    Genesee Power Plant in Thetford Township, MI gets Air Permit

•                                    Mitsubishi Gas Turbines for 1000 MW Wildcat Point

GAS / OIL – WORLD

•                                    100 MW Power Plant for Purcellsinch, Ireland

•                                    Drax could Invest in Gas-fired Power Plants

CO2

•                                    U.S. Appeals Court Rejects States’ Challenge of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules

NUCLEAR

•                                    Duke cancels Crystal River (Levy County) Nuclear Project

•                                    4,800 MW Akkuyu Nuclear Power Project in Turkey Delayed

•                                    India Railways could turn to Nuclear Power Plants to Supply Power for Electric Locomotives

•                                    Belarus, Russia negotiate on new Nuclear Power Plant Project

•                                    NRC Decision on Duke Nuclear Power Project Delayed

BUSINESS

•                                    MPSA’S Large Scale SCR System at 800 MW Marsh Landing Simple Cycle Power Plant

•                                    Virginia SCC approves APCo Purchase of Amos 3

•                                    Cogeneration, Fuel Switching, and Upgrades Are All Choices for U.S. Industrial Boiler Operators

•                                    Stationary NOx Catalyst market to Reach $2 Billion in Next 4 Years

HOT TOPIC HOUR

•                                    "New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology - Part 2" – Hot Topic Hour on August 1, 2013

•                                    "Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation" is the Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, August 8, 2013

•                                    Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

 

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"Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater" will be the Hot Topic on August 15, 2013

On April 19, 2013, EPA proposed revisions to the effluent limitations, guidelines and standards that would strengthen the existing controls on water discharges from steam electric power plants. The rules would require power plants to install pollution control technology and implement waste-treatment procedures in a phased approach between 2017 and 2022. The EPA must finalize the rules by May 22, 2014. The rules apply to all water discharged from steam power plants, but a particular concern is FGD wastewater. The pollutants of concern include mercury, arsenic, selenium, nitrogen and total dissolved solids.

Over the next few years, plant operators will be upgrading their existing SO2 control systems and installing new systems to meet the new emission limits posed by the utility MATS and CASPR (when finalized).  The great majority of existing systems are wet FGDs and it is likely that most new FGDs will be wet because it is difficult for a dry system to meet the new emission limits. These wet FGDs utilize large quantities of water with limestone to remove the SO2.  The proposed water discharge rules as well as increasing regulations limiting the availability and use of water will be of great concern to operators of existing wet FGDs and those power plants considering installation of new FGDs.

It is not an easy task to design an FGD wastewater treatment system that meets or exceeds discharge regulations because the quantity and composition of FGD discharge water varies widely based on the boiler rating, scrubber type, the efficiency of flyash removal, the efficiency of the dewatering system and the composition of the coal, limestone and make-up water used.  Most FGDs discharge purge or wastewater that is a slurry of water, dissolved solids and suspended solids laden with heavy metals and salts.

The following speakers will describe the options available to plant operators utilizing or considering wet FGDs to achieve the discharge limits and reduce water usage and discuss their experience with developing, testing, designing and troubleshooting treatment technologies for FGD wastewaters, the advantages and disadvantages of the currently available options including capital and operating costs and the latest state-of-the-art technologies for treating, minimizing or eliminating the wastewater that is generated by wet FGD systems.

Paul Chu, Project Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute, will present the work EPRI has been doing to evaluate wastewater treatment options. EPA recently proposed numeric limits for selenium, mercury, arsenic and nitrate/nitrite for FGD wastewaters. As power plants require cost-effective and reliable treatment options, EPRI has been conducting treatment evaluation studies in the laboratory, pilot and full-scale.  EPRI’s work has focused upon physical/chemical precipitation and adsorption based technologies as well as biological reduction approaches.

Norikazu Inaba, Manager of Process Engineering at MHIA /Advatech (A URS & MHIA Company), will discuss "Simple Zero Liquid Discharge System for FGD Wastewater."  MHI has developed low CAPEX/OPEX technology for truly achieving zero liquid discharge (ZLD) from wet FGD to meet the stringent effluent limits. The Wastewater Spray Dryer (WSD) that eliminates a purge stream from the wet FGD process is easy to retrofit and requires no chemicals and significantly less energy than the conventional brine evaporator.

Gordon Maller, Principal Project Manager and Business Development Manager for URS Corporation – Process Technologies Office, will present "Wastewater Treatment and Zero Liquid Discharge Technologies – Overview and New Technology." New effluent limitation guidelines (ELG) have been proposed by the EPA which will require utilities to provide significantly higher levels of treatment prior to discharge for a number of wastewater streams in contact with coal combustion residuals (CCR) including FGD wastewater. This presentation will provide an overview of the new rules as well as an overview of existing and emerging WWT and ZLD technology to comply with the new rules. New technology and strategies for plants to operate as ZLD at a much lower cost, optimize water usage, and accomplish necessary improvements such as closing waste impoundments will also be discussed.

William A. Shaw, Senior Process Engineer for HPD Evaporators and Crystallizers at Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America, will present "Zero Liquid Discharge Systems for FGD Wastewater."   In light of proposed EPA Effluent Limit Guidelines, many coal-fired power plants are considering ways to reduce their water discharges. Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) processes are being studied in anticipation of even more restrictions on water discharges in the future. Closing the loop by adopting a ZLD treatment scheme will usually involve consideration of evaporation and crystallization technologies as these have had and will continue to play an important role in the recovery and re-use of water from industrial wastewater streams.  However, ZLD systems can be very expensive from both a capital and operational perspective.  New approaches to evaporator system design, especially the recently patented CoLD crystallization technology, provide additional options to power plants which are looking for methods to effectively and economically reduce or eliminate their water discharges from FGD scrubbers.   

To register for the August 15 "Hot Topic Hour" on "Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater" at 10 a.m. DST, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/hot_topic_hour_registration.htm.

 

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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

 

August 15

Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater     

Power

August 22

Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications     

Power

August 29

Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology     

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

Oct. 3

Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards     

Power

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