Total FGD Market Much Bigger Than $3.4 Billion Forecast
Next year coal-fired power plants will spend $3.4 billion for traditional
scrubbing systems to remove SO2. This is a big decrease from the 2010 - 2011
peak concludes the McIlvaine Company in FGD Market and Strategies. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The traditional market involves using limestone as a reagent in wet scrubbers.
Europe and The U.S. will be spending very little in this category because few
new coal-fired power plants are being built. Many of the older ones already have
scrubbers. However, there is another factor which is a regulatory environment
which encourages high operating cost /low capital cost.
A number of older power plants in the U.S. are required to reduce HCl and must
purchase equipment to do so in the next year or two. The traditional limestone
scrubber has a high capital cost and low operating cost. Due to greenhouse gas
initiatives and lower natural gas prices the operators of these power plants are
considering power plant retirement in the next decade. They are, therefore,
looking to lower capital cost options.
Dry lime injection (DSI) is one of the low capital cost options. Annual reagent
costs (lime or sodium) will be quite high but if the power plant is retired in
less than ten years, the life cycle cost of this option will be less.
A big market which is not reflected in the scrubber forecast is the upgrading
and replacement of portions of existing FGD systems. Many FGD systems are more
than 25 years old. Since there are regulatory barriers to building new power
plants, the only option is to upgrade the old ones. The upgrade market has risen
substantially over the decades. The potential in both Europe and the U.S. is
significant. China is also forcing upgrades of nearly 100,000 MW of existing FGD
systems which are not meeting current regulations.
The potential for FGD sales in India and some other parts of Asia is
substantial. At this point regulations do not require FGD but it is likely that
there will be tougher regulations in the foreseeable future.
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FGD and DeNOx
NEWSLETTER
November 2014
No. 439
Table of Contents
HOT TOPICS
• Catalytic Filter is More and More Attractive for Power and Cement - Hot Topic
Hour September 4, 2014
MARKETS
• $30 Billion NOx Control Market Centered in China
• $2.9 Billion Market for Stainless Steel in Flow and Treatment Control
Equipment in 2015
• Mercury Removal Market to Exceed $1 Billion per Year by 2015
INDUSTRY NEWS
• EPA signs off on Revised Plan for San Juan Generating Station
• ANDRITZ to supply Equipment for Two Coal-fired Boilers at Sooner Power Plant
in Oklahoma
• B&W Board of Directors evaluating Separation of Businesses
• Foster Wheeler awarded Contract for Air Quality Control System Upgrade in West
Virginia
• CMS undertaking $1 Billion Program to cut Emissions from Five Coal-fired Power
Plants in Michigan
• Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation to meet MATS
• MET announces Licensee WFGD Awards in China
• Springfield, MO Coal-fired Power Plant will invest $21 Million to meet MATS by
April 2015
• IPL plans to Retrofit Five Units to meet MATS Requirements
• DTE helps Further Development of Mercury Emission Control Technology
• Extension of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Compliance Deadline for
Muskingum River Coal-fired Power Plant
• More than 100 MATS Extensions
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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECTS HEADLINES
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There
are thousands of projects in the database.
New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and
Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World
Power Generation Projects has just the project data.
Revision Date
Revision Date:
Project Title First Entry Date Location Startup date
Vempadu power plant-M/s Yeswanth Industrial Infrastructure Projects 11/1/2014
India Unknown
Tevshiin Gobi power plant-Mogul Power 11/1/2014 Mongolia Unknown
Mariveles power plant-Sithe/Ayala Corp. 11/1/2014 Philippines 2019
Vinh Tan 4 power project-Vietnam Energy 12/1/2013 Vietnam 2018
Vung Ang 3-PetroVietnam 8/1/2013 Vietnam 2022
Kauswagan power plant-Ayala Corp 7/1/2013 Philippines 2018
Cilacap ultra supercritical expansion 4/1/2013 Indonesia 2018
Safaga power plant on Red Sea 1/1/2013 Egypt Unknown
Bhadreshwar power plant-OPG Ltd. 9/1/2010 India 2015
Kamakhyanagar power plant-OdishaThermal Power Corp. 9/1/2010 India Unknown
Muzaffarpur Stage II-NTPC and BSEB 5/1/2010 Pakistan 2014
Cuddalore - Powergen Corp. power project 4/1/2010 India Cancelled?
Sostanj 6 supercritical power plant-Termoelektrarna Sostanj 12/1/2009 Slovenia
2014
Hui'an/Fuqing 2 Units 3-6-CNNC 9/1/2009 China Unknown
Fuqing 1,2 nuclear power plant-China National Nuclear Corp. 6/1/2008 China 2015
Barh II (4,5)-National Thermal Power Corp. (NTPC) 4/1/2008 India 2014
Flamanville 3 nuclear power plant-EDF 6/1/2007 France 2017
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