July 2015 - Filtration and Centrifugation Insights 50

Billion Dollar Flow Control and Treatment Market to Reduce Coal Flyash Contamination and To Make Valuable By-products

Coal-fired power plants are being forced to give up their traditional ash ponds to prevent repetition of recent ash spill incidents in Tennessee and the Carolinas. In the U.S. and elsewhere, the discharge limits on effluents are becoming more stringent. As a result, this is generating a new opportunity for suppliers of pumps, valves, filters and centrifuges. This opportunity is being continually analyzed in a number of McIlvaine publications.

Zero liquid discharge systems are one solution. Wastewater is purified and reused or evaporated. A number of systems have recently been installed in the U.S., Italy and China.

The flyash formerly residing in ponds will be removed and placed in dry landfills or made into useful products. The Chinese have a large program to extract rare earths from the flyash.

Centrifuges, clarifiers, hydrocyclones and other sedimentation equipment will play a major role in both process separation and wastewater purification as these flyash landfills are processed. There is a major opportunity to extract the rare earths at the time of coal combustion or gasification.

The largest gasification program is in China where more than one billion tons of coal per year are slated for conversion. Other Asian countries are moving ahead with coal-to-chemicals plants. The Ukraine has five plants underway to reduce dependence on Russian gas.

Direct coal liquefaction uses grinding, hydrogenation and separation. Centrifuges and clarifiers provide process separation. Indirect liquefaction and coal-to-gas utilize gasification. The big uses of centrifuges and clarifiers are in water and wastewater treatment.

The economics and environmental impact of coal conversion can be greatly enhanced by rare earth recovery. In the past, an outside source of acid to leach the rare earths has been needed. McIlvaine Company believes this expenditure can be avoided.

By using the chlorine in coal, the rare earths can be extracted in what the McIlvaine Company believes to be simply the marriage of two proven systems.

Making hydrochloric acid from coal is not a new idea. Using this technology for rare earth leaching is new. The particulate and HCl emanating from the gasifer are captured in a venturi scrubber. This is already the scheme used for the GE gasifier. However, the proposed design recirculates acid to achieve a 30 percent dirty acid concentration. A bleed stream with the flyash and acid is then sent to a tank for further leaching. A number of additional separation steps are then needed to produce the rare earths from the flyash. So this separation is another opportunity for centrifuge and clarifier suppliers.

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Borealis and Agrifos Announce Major Milestone for U.S. Ammonia Production Project

Asahi Kasei Opens New Production Lines for Duranol and Duranate at Chinese Plant

Mitsubishi and Subsidiaries to Construct Methanol & Dimethyl Ether Plant in Trinidad & Tobago

Odebrecht and Braskem to Re-evaluate Proposed Cracker Plant in West Virginia

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Evonik Starts Basic Engineering Work for New Precipitated Silica Production Plant in US

Hexcel Launches Site for New Carbon Fiber Plant in France; Announces Capacity Expansions at Weaving and Prepreg Facilities

Mexichem’s VESTOLIT Subsidiary to Increase Specialty PVC Capacity in German Plant

This monthly update is devoted to wastewater infrastructure news around the world, outside of the United States and Canada, and is meant to complement McIlvaine's Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets and/or Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets updates.

This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.

Startup Date	Location	Fuel Comment	Project Title
Unknown	Australia		Arckaringa--Altona Resources cogeneration project
Unknown	Brazil		Energetica Suape II power plant-
Unknown	IL		Garden Prairie peaking Energy Facility-Power Ventures
Unknown	India		Badarpur replacement-NTPC
Unknown	India		Surat-Kaneria Group
Unknown	India		Pedda Vegi thermal power plant-Pedavegi Power
Unknown	India		Nallabandagudem power plant-Kakatiya Crystals Energy
Unknown	India		Mehsana power project-Gujarat State Electricity Corp.
Unknown	India		Hiranandani Group power project
Unknown	India		Faridabad power plant
Unknown	India		Thakurli power plant- Central Railways
Unknown	India		Balabhadrapuram thermal power plant-Bright Light Energy Ventures
Unknown	India		Mundra gas-fired power plant-Adani
Unknown	India		Appalanarasimhapuram thermal power project-Kakatiya Crystals Energy Ventures
Unknown	India		Chintavari Palem power plant-Panduranga Energy Systems
Unknown	India		Chikkala thermal power plant-Devee Power
Unknown	India		Cherial thermal power plant-Lakshmi Balaji Power
Unknown	Japan		Tokyo power plant-Tokyo Municipal Government
Unknown	Kuwait		Al-Khiran power and desalination plant-GDF Suez consortium
Unknown	Romania		E.On Romania power plant
Unknown	Romania		Borzesti power plant-GDF Suez Energy Romania
Unknown	Russia		Primorsk power plant
Unknown	Tanzania		Bagamoyo possible power plant-BS Ltd or Kamal Steel
Unknown	Turkey		GMR possible power project in Turkey
Unknown	Yemen		Hodeida power plant - CNCOEC
Unknown	Yemen		Shabwa power plant - CNCOEC
Unknown	Yemen		Dhamar power plant - CNCOEC
Online	Indonesia		Cikarang Industrial Estate power plant expansion
On hold	Bulgaria		Varna power plant-CEZ
On hold	CA		Kimberlina oxy combustion - Clean Energy Systems
On hold	Poland		CEZ power project in Poland
Delayed	El Salvador		La Union power plant-Cutuco Energy
Cancelled	Australia		Yallourn replacement-EnergyAustralia
Cancelled	Australia	coal seam methane	Queensland Gas Co. baseload power plant
Cancelled	Zimbabwe		Iranian planned power plant in Zimbabwe
2019	Japan		Wakayama power plant-Kansai Electric
2018	Egypt		Helwan South power plant-Egyptian Electricity Holding Co.
2018	Russia	Associated gas from oil and gas fields	Lena (Ust Kut) power plant - EuroSibEnergo
2017	Bosnia		Kakanj cogneration plant expansion-EPBiH
2017	CO		Cherokee 4 natural gas conversion - Xcel
2017	Egypt		Suez power plant (boiler)-East Delta Electricity Production Co.
2017	India		Reliance Infra. Power plant
2017	India		Krishna power plant-Encore Power
2017	Jamaica	Ethane	Alpart Refinery CHP GT - Rusal
2017	Poland		Pulawy PULW,WA/PGE power plant
2016	Poland		PGE/Police cogen power plant
2016	Serbia		Pancevo power project
2016	South Korea		Osan City CHP CCGT - DS Power
2015	AK		Eklutna power project-Matanuska Electric Assoc.
2015	India		Anjarle thermal power project-Tiana Power Projects