See You Next Week at EUEC

McIlvaine will have a stand next week at EUEC.  We encourage you to provide us with insights relative to environmental and energy challenges. We are trying to clarify all the options to help power plants make the best environmental decisions.  Here are some areas where options need to be analyzed:

·       Wet or dry cooling for the combined cycle plant.

·       EDI or ion-exchange for ultrapure water system.

·       Are membrane contactors the right choice for degasification?

·       Can variable speed drives and flow control meet 316B?

·       How to solve valve stellite delamination problem.

·       Pinch or knife gate valves for FGD slurry.

·       Should zero liquid discharge be employed?

·       Use municipal wastewater rather than river.

·       Should selenium be removed by DSI ahead of the wet scrubber to avoid expensive wastewater treatment?

These are just some of the many issues.  If you have insights on these or have identified other issues which need to be addressed, please come to our stand #2824 and discuss them with us.

More Than 2,000 Major Industrial Air Pollution Projects In the Americas in Each
of The Next Five Years

More than 2,000 projects with investments exceeding $4 million will be initiated each year over the next five years by industrial plant operators in North and South America. Each of these projects is tracked in Industrial Emitters, a publication of the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

These major investments are being made by refineries, mining companies and manufacturers of steel, pulp and paper, chemicals, petrochemicals and food.  The sources include industrial boilers, dryers, kilns, furnaces, grinding plants and other processes.  Sewage sludge incinerators are another source.

The U.S. will be the leading purchaser followed by Canada and Mexico.  Brazil, Chile and Argentina are the other countries in the top six.  The immediate market in the U.S. is generated by new air toxic standards which affect cement plants, solid waste combustors and industrial boiler operators.  The U.S. alone has thousands of industrial boilers.  However, only 2,000 will have to make changes to meet the air toxic rules. The largest expenditures will be made by the operators of 532 large electrostatic precipitators now operating in conjunction with coal-fired cogeneration plants.  In order to reduce discrete toxic metals, mercury and hydrogen chloride, there will need to be sizable investments.

The number of projects related to new plants and expansions has been growing thanks to the low oil and gas prices in the region.  In the U.S., there are new petrochemical and steel projects underway. Mining projects in Canada and Chile will need substantial investments in precipitators, scrubbers and fabric filters.  Refining and sugar are two significant segments in Brazil.

The potential to supply upgrades, repair parts and consumables is substantial.  There are more than 300 cement plants in the Americas.  They operate more than 10,000 fabric filters.  All of them require replacement bags.  There are more than 200 waste-to-energy facilities which require ammonia, activated carbon, lime and other consumables.

The 200 refineries in the region are also embarking on new and upgrade air pollution projects.  The typical catalytic cracker project has cyclones to capture the large catalyst particles and return them to the process.  The cyclones are followed by an electrostatic precipitator for the smaller particles, then a scrubber to capture the SO₂.  This scrubber is often preceded by an ozone generator which converts the NO_x to a soluble form. An alternative for NO_x control is selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR).  Forced heaters and other refinery sources are also fitted with SNCR.

Industrial Emitters has details on more than 20,000 plants. There are monthly updates which add the new projects, as well as revising and adding email addresses and phone numbers of the plant operators. Recent air permit renewals are also incorporated.  Case histories and industry news are supplied in three monthly newsletters (Fabric Filter, Precipitator and Scrubber/Adsorber). 

For more information on Industrial Emitters, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/93-n032.

Headlines for Utility E-Alert –February 6, 2015

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1209 – February 6, 2015

Table of Contents

COAL – US

·       Missouri Justices send Coal Ash Case back to Circuit Court

·       Two Oregon Lawmakers introduce Legislation to ban Coal-fired Power and limit Gas-fired Power Expansion   

·       Kemper Power Plant overruns climb another $45 Million

COAL – WORLD

·       China already has 550 GW of SCR

·       1,320 MW Khulna Project may go out for Bids soon

GAS/OIL – US

·       Wärtsilä to supply more Peaking Power Capacity to the Bakken Area, Montana

GAS/OIL – WORLD

·       Consulting and Site Assessment Studies undertaken for Gas-fired Power Plant at Severn Beach, UK

·       Gazpromenergoholding Subsidiary offers Equipment for Grozny Thermal Power Plant

·       Jamaica Public Service plans 190 MW Gas-fired Power Plant

CO₂

·       FutureGen financing terminated by DOE

·       DOE and Shell Canada to Collaborate on CO₂ Storage Project

NUCLEAR

·       China, Argentina agree on Work for New Nuclear Power Plants

BUSINESS

·       Advanced Emissions Solutions is delisted by NASDAQ

·       Porvair wins Chinese Gasification Project

·       Lots of Mergers in the Gas and Liquids Flow, Control and Treatment Market

HOT TOPIC HOUR

·       “Gas Turbine Regulatory Drivers” Hot Topic Hour on February 5 addressed Permitting and Compliance Issues for Gas Turbine Operators

·       “Gasification Air Pollution Control” is the Hot Topic on February 12, 2015

·       Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects.  These webinars are free of charge to owner/operators of the plants. They are also free to McIlvaine Subscribers of Power Plant Air Quality Decisions and Utility Tracking System.  The cost for others is $300.00 per webinar.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours.  We welcome your input relative to suggested additions.

Click here for the Subscriber and Power Plant or Cement Plant Owner/Operator Registration Form

Click here for the Non-Subscribers Registration Form           

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Bob McIlvaine
President
847-784-0012 ext 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
www.mcilvainecompany.com