Upgrade Projects Costing $ Billions Underway At North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants

The 18,000 plants in North America which are extracting water and purifying it for residential, commercial and industrial use have committed to spend $ billions to upgrade their facilities. These projects are tracked bi-weekly in the McIlvaine North American Public Water Plants and People.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Types of expenditures can be classified as new facilities to expand supply, new facilities to replace facilities being retired, upgrading of older facilities and routine maintenance and replacement.  In North America, the upgrades are the leading sector in terms of investment.

Upgrades can be triggered by consumer demand for better quality, new regulations limiting contamination levels, improved reliability or by maintenance reduction.

Representative Upgrade Projects at North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants

City

State

Equipment

Westerville

0H

Pressurized activated carbon filters

Chickasha

OK

$150 million overhaul to improve taste, odor and appearance

Kitanning

PA

Chemical storage and feed

Pulaski

VA

Hydraulic to electric valves, digital controls, chemical feeders – first upgrade since 1989

Salida

CO

Upgrade granular media filter and chemical feed system in this plant built in 1959

Florence

AL

Miex system for dissolved organic carbon removal

Glasgow

KY

20 year upgrade

Nyssa

OR

Reduce arsenic to meet Federal requirement

Bay County

MI

Membrane filtration system

Saratoga Springs

NY

Replace filters which have been operating for 40 years

North Brevard

FL

Reduce TTHMs to below Federal long-term limit

Peace River

Alberta  CA

New fluoridation system

Bethalto

IL

New filters and pumps

Many of the upgrades are taking place at plants which are more than 50 years old. Some operators have scheduled major upgrades every 20 years.

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Liquid and Air Filter Element Sales Will Exceed $34 Billion This Year

Sales of filter element to separate particles from air, gases, water, oil and other liquids will exceed $34 billion in 2013.  This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Filter Element Revenues $ Millions 2013

Application

Liquid

Air

Total

Power Generation

100

1,500

1,600

Fluid Power

2,200

400

2,600

Mobile

5,000

3,000

8,000

Municipal

800

40

840

Residential/Commercial

7,000

5,000

12,000

Oil and Gas

300

400

700

Industrial, Other

5,000

4,000

9,000

Total

20,400

14,340

34,740

The largest single segment is the residential/commercial.  This includes furnace, refrigerator and other air and water filters used in residences, office buildings and other governmental and commercial enterprises. Carbon block, membranes and non-woven filter media are used.

The industrial sector is the next largest.  Filter element used in stack gas purification comprises the bulk of the air applications.  Membrane and non-woven filter element used in pharmaceutical applications account for nearly 40 percent of the liquid portion of the industrial sector.

Mobile includes on-road as well as off-road vehicles, ships, rail locomotives and airplanes.  Applications include filtration of fuel, coolant and intake air. Cabin air and components requiring lubrication. Fluid power includes both pneumatic and hydraulic filters.

The oil and gas sector uses extensive numbers of coalescing filter element to remove entrained droplets from gases. Liquid filter elements are used on a variety of applications.

Clarcor and Donaldson are two companies whose products are available in most of the sectors. Affinia concentrates just on the fluid power and mobile aftermarket.  Cummins is primarily in the mobile sector. Parker Hannifin offers products for many sectors. However, unlike Donaldson and Clarcor, it does not offer the stack gas cartridges.

A number of media companies such as Ahlstrom, Lydall and Hollingsworth & Vose have products in all the sectors.

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Headlines for the September 13, 2013 – Utility E-Alert     

UTILITY E-ALERT   

#1142 – September 13, 2013

Table of Contents

COAL – US

 

§  DOJ wants to add Belle River 1, 2, Monroe 1, 3 and Trenton Channel 9 to NSR Lawsuit

§  Cabot Norit to provide Two ACI Systems

§  Cayuga conversion to Natural Gas is up to $924.3 less Costly than Power Line Upgrades

§  OG&E asks Court to dismiss EPA’s NSR Lawsuit against Muskogee and Sooner

§  Virginia Electric and Power Bremo Power Plant to convert to Natural Gas-firing

COAL – WORLD

 

GAS/OIL – US 

 

GAS/OIL – WORLD 

NUCLEAR 

BUSINESS

HOT TOPIC HOUR 

 

 

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DATE

Non-Subscribers Cost

SUBJECT

 Webinar Type

September 26th and 27th 2013

$125.00

Multi-pollutant Control Technology     

 Power

October 3, 2013

$125.00

Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards      

 Power

October 17, 2013

$125.00

Air Pollution Control in China       

 Power

October 31, 2013

$125.00

Chinese FGD/SCR Program and Impact on the World      

 Power

November 21, 2013

$125.00

Wet vs. Dry ESP      

 Power

December 5, 2013

$125.00

Update on Gasification Projects and Technology      

 Power

December 12, 2013

$125.00

Selecting FGD Scrubber Components      

 Power

December 19, 2013

$125.00

Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries      

 Power

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