$5 Billion 2015 Desalination Market for Pumps, Valves, Filters and Chemicals
The market for pumps, valves, filters and chemicals for use in desalination will exceed $5 billion in 2015. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in aggregating forecasts in a number of its reports. (
www.mcilvainecompany.com)California with its drought crisis is at the epi-center of the desalination activity. Seventeen plants are in planning stages along the coast to convert saltwater from the ocean or bays, including one near Concord that would convert 20 million gallons a day of drinkable water.
A plant under construction near San Diego will be biggest desalination facility in the Western Hemisphere when it begins operations in 2016. The $1 billion plant will produce 50 million gallons of potable water daily. A $400 million plant could begin construction in Monterey County by 2018.
Activity in the Middle East will also be high although other areas of the world are gaining market share. The biggest hardware investment will be in cross-flow membrane equipment. Consumable expenditures with the highest revenue generation will be replacement membrane modules and treatment chemicals.
Desalination Component Revenues
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Product |
2015 Revenue ($ Millions) |
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Water Treatment Chemicals |
800 |
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Pumps |
500 |
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Valves |
400 |
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Liquid Macrofiltration |
100 |
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Cartridges |
80 |
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Sedimentation and Centrifugation |
60 |
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Cross-flow Membrane Equipment and Replacement Modules |
3,060 |
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Total |
5,000 |
Treatment chemical cost averages 0.03 $/m3 of capacity in seawater, reverse osmosis (RO) systems and 0.02/ $/m3 in thermal systems. There is substantial use of scale inhibitors in thermal systems. Acids and antifoams are used in MSF systems. Cleaning chemicals are a substantial investment where RO is employed.
The amount of water being pumped in desalination systems is presently only about one percent of the amount being pumped for all the world’s drinking supplies. On the other hand, the high pressure pumps needed for reverse osmosis are an order of magnitude more expensive than those used for drinking water transport.
Thermal systems require pumps for a number of processes:
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Seawater intake pumps·
Brine recirculation pumps·
Brine blow-down pumps·
Distillate extraction pumps·
Condensate extraction pumps·
Product forwarding pumpsThermal systems require substantial numbers of valves. The high pressure membrane desalination systems require expensive valves to deal with the corrosive conditions as well as the pressures.
Pre-filtration for the reverse osmosis (RO) systems and initial purification of water which will be evaporated in thermal systems is accomplished with liquid macrofiltration and cartridges. Automatic backwash filters and sand filters are frequently used. Liquid wastes are dewatered in filter presses.
Cartridges are used to remove particles which are too small to be captured in liquid macrofiltration equipment, but too large and plentiful to be handled by cross-flow membranes. There has been a high replacement frequency on cartridges.
An alternative to liquid macrofiltration is sedimentation. Clarifiers and dissolved air flotation systems are selected for a number of systems. The desalting takes place in either thermal systems where the water is evaporated or by separation with cross-flow membranes. RO does the final separation. Macro or ultrafilters are often used to pre-filter and protect the RO membranes.
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Cartridge Filters: World Market:
Industrial Valves: World Markets:
Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/118-n006Pumps World Markets:
RO, UF, MF World Market:
Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/119-n005Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/27-water/449-n026-water-and-wastewater-treatment-chemicalsIn order to achieve such large capacity, the plant needs equally large centrifugal pumps taking water directly from the sea and through the various processes in the evaporator. Such applications are:
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Seawater intake pumps·
Brine recirculation pumps·
Brine blow-down pumps·
Distillate extraction pumps·
Condensate extraction pumps·
Product forwarding pumps
Asian Remediation Market to Exceed $5.4 Billion Next Year
Asia will spend $2.4 billion for groundwater remediation next year and $3 billion for soil cleanup, according to the McIlvaine Company in its most recent update of Site Remediation World Markets. Eighty-three percent of the total will be spent in East Asia. (
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2015 Asian Remediation Market ($ Millions) |
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Region |
Groundwater |
Soil |
Total |
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Metals and VOCs |
Other Contaminants |
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East Asia |
1,500 |
500 |
2,500 |
4,500 |
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West Asia |
300 |
100 |
500 |
900 |
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Total |
1,800 |
600 |
3,000 |
5,400 |
The market for site remediation in China is growing at double-digit rates due to a number of factors. The country contains 20 percent of the world’s population, but covers only 9 percent of the landmass on earth. The demand for food is increasing. The focus on industrialization has led to more and more contamination of the soil and water. Crops in some instances are cultivated on contaminated soil and irrigated with contaminated water.
China is the major producer of rare earth metals in the world. However, rare earth mining and refining have caused serious pollution across the country. For twenty years, the industry has been regulated only marginally. Groundwater contaminated by radionuclides at rare earth refinery sites in northern China, near the Mongolian border, has been migrating toward the Yellow River, which supplies drinking water for 150 million people.
High cancer rates and other health problems linked to the refining of rare earths have forced the evacuation of entire villages between the city of Baotou and the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia. The Chinese government is spending billions of dollars to clean up the pollution.
The market in Japan is significantly affected by just one remediation site (Fukushima) and Japan plans to spend $970 million to build a special facility to store tens of thousands of tons of soil contaminated by radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Hundreds of millions per year is being spent on chemicals and other methods for treating contaminants in the water.
India and other West Asian countries have problems equal to those in East Asia but not the political will or funds to make as large an effort as is being made in Eat Asia.
For more information on Site Remediation World Markets, click on:
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Headlines for the March 7, 2014 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1165 – March 7, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL – US
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EPA taking Final Action to approve Revisions to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan§
Five More Duke Energy Plants cited for Violations§
B&W sued by ARPA over alleged faulty Coal-fired Boiler§
Construction begins on Rockaway Lateral and Northeast Connector expansions in NYC
COAL – WORLD
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Two More Thermal Power Projects planned in Karnataka, India§
Eemshaven (Netherlands) Site for New 1600 MW Coal/Biomass Power Plant§
ANC Dubai to set up Two 660 MW Coal-fired Power Plants at Gaddani§
Novinda awarded Three Contracts to supply Amended Silicates HgX for the removal of Mercury from Ten Coal-fired Power Plants
GAS/OIL – US
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Three New Gas Utility Projects planned for Ohio due to Natural Gas from Utica Shale§
EPA awards Pollution Permit to Pio Pico Gas-fired Power Plant in San Diego, CA
GAS/OIL – WORLD
CO2
NUCLEAR
BIOMASS
BUSINESS
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GDF Suez sells 24.5 Percent Stake in Hungarian Dunamenti Gas-fired Combined Cycle Power Plant to MET Group§
Tanzanian Energy Regulator Considering Two Bids for Power Plants§
U.S. Coal upgrades will improve European Energy Security and Reduce Equivalent CO2 by Five Billion Tons/Yr§
China will spend $34 Billion/Yr for Air Pollution Control
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SUBJECT |
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March 20, 2014 |
China Air Pollution Control |
World’s Largest Market |
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March 27, 2014 |
Analysis Of Dry Scrubber Options |
Top notch third party expert panelists and lots of background info |
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April 10, 2014 |
Mercury Chemicals In Fuel, Flue Gas and Scrubbing Liquor |
Important alternative to sorbents |
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April 17, 2014 |
Measurement Of Gas Turbine Emissions Including NH3 |
Six different options |
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May 1, 2014 |
850oF Particulate Removal With Ceramic Filter Media |
Could change the whole back end |
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May 8, 2014 |
Sorbent Traps vs. Mercury CEMS |
Sorbent traps are competitive |
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May 15, 2014 |
Gas Intake Filters: HEPA or Medium Efficiency |
More information |
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May 29, 2014 |
Stellite Delamination in Power Plant Steam Valves |
More information |
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June 5, 2014 |
Dry vs. Wet Cooling |
Surprising number of ACC’S. Why? |
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June 12, 2014 |
HRSG Issues (Fast Start, Tube Failures) |
Lots of challenges to cycle 200 X/yr |
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June 26, 2014 |
CCR |
$ billions Needed |
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July/August 2014 |
Boiler Feedwater Treatment Condensate Polishing for Peaking Turbines 316 B Water Issues Gas Turbine Permitting Issues Give us your opinion about topics we should consider |
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