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Here are the Headlines for the December 7, 2012 – Utility E-Alert 

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1103– December 7, 2012

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

• Environmental Groups file Lawsuit against 2400 MW Sherco
• EPA nears release of NAAQS PM_2.5
• NRG Energy drops Plan to build 800 MW Coal-fired Unit in Texas
• Gulf Power Recycles 5 Billion Gallons of Emerald Coast Utility Authority Reclaimed Water

COAL – WORLD 

• Redondo Peninsula Energy receives Amended Environmental Permit for 600 MW Subic Power Plant
• Tambang Batu Bara Bukit Asam seeking Foreign Investor for 3x600 MW Power Project in South Sumatra
• KEPCO, along with Hanjin, still planning 300 MW Power Plant in the Philippines

GAS/OIL / US

• Holland City Council (Michigan) approves 114 MW Natural Gas-fired Power Plant

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• Construction to begin on Globeleq’s Azito Expansion in Ivory Coast
• Samsung C&T wins Combined Cycle Power Plant Order from Malaysia
• ACCIONA will build Mexico’s Baja California II Power Plant
• SNC-Lavalin Consortium awarded 463 MW Power Plant Contract by PKN Orlen in Poland
• Progress Energy Gas-fired Plant to be Upgraded by GE

NUCLEAR

• Enel and EDF end Nuclear Power Cooperation in France
• Rosatom to build 4800 MW Akkuyu Power Plant in Turkey

BUSINESS

• Canadian Pacific Railway cancels Plans for Line Extension into PRB Area in Wyoming
• MET announces Acquisition of Buell APC
• Most of the Dollars but Only 50 Percent of the Projects are Selecting SCR over SNCR and Other NO_x Removal Techniques
• Mercury Capture from Stack Exhausts around the World Will Require Chemicals Totaling $1.5 to $3 Billion/yr
• Improve Your Networking at Power-Gen 2012  
• Water Discussion at Ovivo Stand on Wednesday at 4 p.m. 
• Air Filtration is Important not only for Turbine Protection but also to reduce PM_2.5 Emissions - More at the Pneumafil Stand #4456

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• “Boiler Feed and Cooling Water Treatment issues were discussed in” Hot Topic Hour on Thursday, December 6, 2012
• “Co-firing Biomass, Sewage Sludge and Municipal Waste” is the Hot Topic Hour December 13, 2012
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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$61 Billion Flow Control and Treatment Market in 2016 in the Energy Sector

The power, refining and oil and gas industries will combine to purchase pumps, valves, instrumentation, filters, clarifiers, separators scrubbers, dust collectors and other air and liquid treatment equipment totaling $61 billion in 2013. This is the conclusion in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment & Control: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Purchases of flow control and treatment equipment will rise significantly in the U.S. due to the activity in non-conventional fuels.  Extraction of gas and oil through hydraulic fracturing involves substantial amounts of water as well as fuels. New regulations impacting the release of gases during completion will boost air treatment revenues.

Refineries are being upgraded to produce higher quality lower polluting fuels. In the U.S. investments are being made to handle the liquids generated from the non-conventional gas extraction.  The processing of oil sands in Canada will require substantial new treatment and flow investments.

In the power sector, the biggest markets will be in Asia where an ambitious program to expand electricity generation through construction of coal-fired power plants will continue.  Many of these power plants will use treated municipal wastewater or reclaimed water from other sources. The use of scrubbers to capture the SO₂ from these plants results in substantial movement of slurries and investment in air pollution control equipment.

This forecast includes air pollution control, water pollution control, processing of liquid fuels such as chemicals, and any application where the movement or control of air, gases, liquids or fluids or the treatment of these substances is involved.

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Residential Will Comprise 30 Percent of Liquid Cartridge Market in 2013

Sales of liquid cartridges will exceed $16 billion in 2012. Nearly $5 billion will be consumed for residential point-of-entry and point-of-use filters.  This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine report Cartridge Filters: World Market.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

($ Millions)

Homeowners utilize many nonwoven cartridges as well as those made of carbon block. Cartridges are used to purify drinking water and to remove odors from ice making. Commercial buildings, restaurants vending machine operators and other facilities are also using these types of filters.

Industrial applications require a mix of membrane, nonwoven, carbon and other cartridge types. The membrane cartridges are popular in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. String wound filters are used in the paint industry to purify the product.  Since cartridges are disposable, they are selected where the particulate loadings are light and the service life is therefore relatively long.

In the healthcare industry, cartridges purify blood and a number of liquids in addition to water. The power industry uses cartridges in the ultrapure water systems which provide the boiler-feed water. Cartridges follow other filters which capture most of the contaminants. The task of the cartridges is to remove the fine particles which remain. There are a number of large players in the field.  Pall and Millipore are large suppliers of membrane and nonwoven cartridges.  Kimberly Clark, Fiber Web, 3M, Ahlstrom and Clarcor are all media suppliers. In the case of 3M and Clarcor, they also supply the finished filters.

For more information on Cartridge Filters: World Market, click on:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/water.html#nO24.

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