$2 Billion Market for Cross-flow Membranes and Equipment to Purify Drinking Water

Next year municipal drinking water plants around the world will spend just under $2 billion for cross-flow membrane equipment and systems. This is in addition to an expenditure of $3 billion to desalinate seawater. These are the conclusions reached in RO, UF, MF World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Cross-flow Membrane Sales for Drinking Water

($ Millions)

Prior to 1990 most drinking water plants used sand filters to purify drinking water. However, since that time there has been a trend toward use of microfiltration and ultrafiltration membrane systems. The reason is that the cross flow membranes can remove more of the disease causing organisms than can the sand filters.

The most efficient selection would be reverse osmosis (RO). However, the capital cost and energy consumption is considerably greater than ultrafiltration, so the use of RO is confined to situations where there is significant contamination of the water to be consumed.

East Asia is the largest market. It is also growing the fastest. The migration of the rural population to the cities has increased drinking water demand. Since the source water is likely to be more contaminated than in other regions, cross-flow membrane filtration with its higher efficiency is the best choice.

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$7 Billion Market for Corrosion Resistant Materials in the Flow and Treatment Markets

In 2014, suppliers of corrosion resistant materials including FRP, resin-lined steel and stainless steel will generate revenues of just under $7 billion for applications in flow control and treatment. That is the conclusion reached in the McIlvaine online report, Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Corrosion Resistant Materials Revenues 2014 

The biggest segment will be valves.  Stainless and FRP valves are widely used in the chemical industry. Oil and gas applications where H2S is present also require corrosion resistant materials. New supercritical coal-fired boilers require expensive alloy stainless valves for the steam loop.

Power plant FGD is another big application. There is widespread use of FRP, resin lined steel and various alloys including the expensive C-276.

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Headlines for the July 5, 2013 – Utility E-Alert   

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1132 – July 5, 2013

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

• Start-up and Shut-Down Particulate Controls needed at Bonanza
• Xcel Energy Sherco 1 and 2 will keep Firing Coal
• Lamar Power Plant to Shut Down in Colorado

COAL – WORLD

• 135 MW Fluidized Bed Boiler Expansion in Calaca, Batangas, Philippines
• Alstom to Modernize Belchatow 2 in Poland
• Multiple Coal-fired Projects expected to be pushed forward in India
• DVC completes Financial Closure of 1,320 MW Raghunathpur Power Plant
• Ncondezi Coal focused on Commercial Contracts for 300 MW Tete Power Plant in Mozambique
• India allocates 14 Coal Blocks
• Toyo Ink proposing 2000 MW Song Hau 2 in Vietnam
• Alstom to deliver Equipment for Concepcion CFB Power Plant in the Philippines
• Alstom to Supply Components for 2x660 MW Suratgarh Supercritical Power Project in Rajasthan, India
• Shenzhen Energy to build 700 MW Power Plant in Ghana
• Harbin Power Group to build 275 MW Barapukuria III in Bangladesh

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• METKA to build 1,642 MW Al-Anbar Combined Cycle Power Plant in Iraq
• E.ON to build 60 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant for Marl Chemical Park
• 428 MW Be’er Tuvia Combined Cycle Power Plant in Israel

BIOMASS

• Tilbury will not be converted to Biomass-firing

NUCLEAR

• Pakistan to seek Chinese Help with Nuclear Power Plant

BUSINESS

• Billion Dollars per Year CO₂ Mitigation Market
• Sales of New  Precipitators will exceed $7.6 Billion Next Year

HOT TOPIC HOUR

§  “New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology” is the subject of the Hot Topic Hour on July 11, 2013

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