U.S. Pump Market to Exceed $7 Billion In 2019
Sales of industrial pumps in the U.S. will exceed $7 billion in 2019. This is the latest forecast from the McIlvaine Company in
Pumps World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)($ Bottom of Form
Millions)
Bottom of Form
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Subject |
2019 |
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Total |
7,102 |
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Centrifugal |
5,168 |
|
Diaphragm |
611 |
|
Reciprocating |
487 |
|
Rotary |
836 |
Centrifugal pumps will garner the lion’s share of the market. They are used to move water, liquids and slurries. Sizes can range from small to very large. The slurry pumps that handle calcium sulfite slurries in power plant scrubber systems are capable of moving more than 60,000 gpm. A large power plant would have four or more of these very large centrifugal pumps.
The growth in the U.S. is partly tied to the attractive cost of natural gas. A number of new chemical plants are under construction. Power companies are investing in gas turbine combined cycle plants. Pumps are required for fogging nozzles, ammonia injection, boiler feedwater, cooling water and wastewater treatment.
Fertilizer manufacturers are also taking advantage of low cost energy. Yara and BASF just announced a joint venture to build a large ammonia plant in the U.S.
The export of gas in one form or another is also driving the pump market. LNG liquefaction plants and even a large gas-to-liquids plant are in the planning stage. Hydraulic fracturing of shale requires pumps which can move slurry to depths of more than one mile under the earth crust. The challenge is also the need to deliver the slurry at pressures suitable for shale fracturing.
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Large Market for Dewatering Sediment
Belt filter presses, recessed chamber filter presses, geo tubes and centrifuges are all used to dewater sediment removed from lakes, harbors and waterways. This large market is identified in two McIlvaine reports,
Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets and Sedimentation and Centrifugation World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)The opportunities fall into two categories:
The sediment is very likely to be contaminated. So the separation processes must not only dewater sediment for disposal, but must treat effluent to remove contaminants.
U.S. waterways contain more than one billion tons of contaminated sediments, according to EPA. Every major harbor bed is polluted. Many other countries around the world are facing even more serious contamination issues.
EPA has announced a massive $1.7 billion cleanup plan, the largest in EPA history, for the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey, running from Belleville to Newark.
That stretch is the most severely contaminated part of the river. It is polluted with high levels of dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other contaminants resulting from a century of industrial activity. The river will be dredged from bank to bank. More than four million cubic yards of toxic sediment will be removed from the river bed. Cleanup of the Passaic has been under study for 25 years.
EPA says that sediment removal will be accompanied by capping of the river bottom. The contaminated sediment will be pressed, dried and shipped out of state for disposal. EPA says it is the largest cleanup in EPA history.
The effluent will undergo a series of additional filtration steps which may also include additional presses or centrifuges. Alternatively cartridges, bag filters and cross-flow membranes may be used. The final flow schematics for Passaic have not yet been determined.
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Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/118-n006For more information on
Sedimentation and Centrifugation World Markets, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/119-n005Headlines for May 9, 2014 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1174 – May 9, 2014
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Stellite Delamination in Power Plant Steam Valves |
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HRSG Issues (Fast Start, Tube Failures) |
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June 26, 2014 |
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