10 Percent of Cartridge Sales Will Be For Petroleum and Chemical Applications
The market for cartridges used in liquid filtration will grow to $18 billion in
2015. The chemical, oil and gas and refining portion will be approximately 10
percent of the total. This is the latest finding reached by the McIlvaine
Company in N024 Cartridge Filters: World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Cartridge Revenues $ Millions
Segment 2015 2019
Total Market 15,300 18,100
Chemical, Oil and Gas, Refining 1,500 1,800
The growth of the petroleum and chemical sector will be greater in the U.S. than
in Europe. One of the higher growth products will be coalescing cartridges to
remove droplets from gas. The continuing lower cost of shale gas will drive this
market. Coalescing filters compete with lower efficiency options.
High efficiency cartridges can remove particles down to 0.1 µm. A
high-efficiency vertical liquid/gas coalescer such as Pall’s product is designed
for inlet gas with liquid aerosol contamination to enter at the bottom of the
housing into a first-stage knockout section. Here any slugs or large droplets
are removed by gravitational settling. The gas then travels upward through a
tube sheet and flows radically from the inside of the cartridges through the
coalescer medium to the annulus. The inlet aerosol distribution ranges from 0.1
to 300 μm, and after passing through the coalescer medium, is transformed into
enlarged coalesced droplets ranging from 0.5 to 2.2 mm.
Cartridges are most advantageous for smaller applications, used for inlet
aerosol concentrations of a few thousand ppmw (parts per million weight) and are
placed downstream of other bulk removal separators.
Media for high efficiency cartridge coalescers is typically glass fibers for
higher efficiency, treated with oleophobic/hydrophobic finish. Two of the
largest media companies are Lydall and Hollingsworth and Vose.
Lydall Filtration/Separation, Inc. offers their LyPore® Unity™ liquid/liquid and
liquid/gas coalescing media grades for efficient separation of both water from
other liquids and oil and water from air streams. All grades are constructed
with borosilicate microfiberglass that offers the highest level of coalescence
at the lowest pressure drop. Lydall's fluoropolymer oil and water repellency
treatment processes ensure exacting separation of target compounds and long
element life. LyPore® Unity™ grades can be pleated or wrapped and are available
in a wide range of efficiencies, repellency levels, and binders.
Hollingsworth & Vose (H&V) manufactures a comprehensive line of coalescer media
solutions for applications that require gas/liquid and liquid/liquid separation.
H&V offers a choice of fiberglass, cellulose and synthetic media combined with
specialized organic binders. For applications requiring additional structural
integrity, these media are also available with lamination. Microfiberglass
provides superior coalescence of the smallest contamination droplets. Cellulose
media are rugged and economical. Carded nonwovens are suitable as coarse layers
and protective wraps.
For more information on N024 Cartridge Filters: World Market, click on:
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OEMs, EPCs and Consultants Will Account For Flow Control and Treatment Purchases
of $68 Billion In 2015
End users will defer to OEMs, EPCs and consultants to make the purchasing
decision for 17 percent of the flow control and treatment purchases. The total
purchases determined by these companies will exceed $68 billion in 2015. This is
the latest forecast in N064 Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World
Market. The 20,000 companies responsible for these purchases are identified in
the McIlvaine OEM networking directory.
The average annual purchase per company will be in excess of $3 million. The
largest category will be valves where the non-users will purchase or direct
purchase of valves totaling $20 billion. OEMs and EPCs are direct purchasers of
the products. Consultants and engineering firms are specifiers but leave the
actual purchase to the end user or OEM. The largest EPCs and consultants such as
Fluor and Bechtel will each account for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth
of flow control and treatment equipment.
Large OEMS such as Mitsubishi, Babcock &Wilcox, Veolia and others providing
complete power, wastewater, or industrial systems are purchasers rather than
manufacturers. Large coal-fired power plant suppliers purchase entire sub
systems as well as proprietary products. In cases where they supply proprietary
products, they are typically purchasing castings and fabrications.
Gas/Water/Fluid OEM, EPC and Consultant Driven Revenues 2015 ($ Billions)
Product
Revenue
Pumps 15
Valves 20
Cartridge 2
Sedimentation/ Centrifugation 3
Cross-Flow Membranes 4
Macrofiltration 2
Biological/Oxidation/Destruction 3
Water/Wastewater Chemicals 2
Filtration/Purification 2
Fabric Filter 2
Scrubber 1
Precipitator 2
FGD 1
DeNOx 2
Thermal/Catalytic 2
Fans and Compressors 5
Total 68
The critical decisions on smaller products such as valves and pumps are usually
made on a local level. Some of the consulting and engineering companies have
hundreds of offices worldwide. For larger system decisions the local offices
will often defer to a specialist who is assisting the local offices globally.
McIlvaine has identified each OEM and consultant with a financial entity number.
This is critical in identifying the subsidiaries of conglomerates and for
Chinese companies where there are a variety of English names for the same
entity.
Information on N064 Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Market
Information on 53DI OEM Networking Directory
Headlines for Utility E-Alert – July 31, 2015
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1234– July 31, 2015
Table of Contents
COAL – US
• Court orders EPA to redo some Air Pollution Limits in 13 States
COAL – WORLD
• Meralco to invest in Three Coal-fired Power Plants in the Next Five Years
• China Group to build Zimbabwe Coal-fired Power Plant
• Flowserve is delivering Pumps to PGE in Poland for Two 900 MW
Ultra-supercritical Boilers
• Amec Foster Wheeler wins Second CFB Combined Heat and Power Plant Contract in
Poland
GAS/OIL – US
• Unanimous support at Hearing for Gas-fired Power Plant in Lordstown, Ohio
• Construction starts on Kings Mountain, North Carolina Gas-fired Power Plant
• NRG Energy Update on Coal to Gas conversion in Lawrence County, PA
• SNC-Lavalin to develop 755 MW PSEG Keys Energy Center in Maryland
• Carty 440 MW Gas-fired Power Plant in Oregon Sixty Percent Complete
GAS/OIL – WORLD
• Samsung C&T wins $1.8 Billion Qatar Combined Cycle Power Plant Deal
• GE to supply Gas Turbines to GS Power, Korea
NUCLEAR
• EDF to buy Majority Stake in Areva Nuclear Reactor Business
• New Power Rules may save Two Exelon Nuclear Power Plants in Illinois
BUSINESS
• GE may sell Alstom’s Gas Turbine Assets to gain EU Anti-trust approval
• EPA will ease Deadlines on Pollution Rule to help States comply
• FirstEnergy wants Ohio to end Deregulation, return to State-controlled Rates
• SSE buys stake in new Shetland Gas Plant from Total
• Environmental and Energy Knowledge Gap
HOT TOPIC HOUR
• “Gas Turbine Emission Control and Exhaust Systems” is the Subject for the Hot
Topic Hour on August 6, 2015 at 10 a.m. CDT
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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Subscribers of Power Plant Air Quality Decisions and Utility Tracking System.
The cost for others is $300.00 per webinar.
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relative to suggested additions.
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