ZLD Opportunities in China

McIlvaine is presently helping a Chinese power plant with 4 x 600 MW FGD systems to select systems and components for a zero liquid discharge system. Many power plants in China will be retrofitting ZLD.  If you have systems or components which may be applicable, contact Bob McIlvaine or email rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com phone #847-784-0012 ext. 112.

Standard Market Research Reports Are Only the Starting Point

Conventional market research reports on pumps, valves, filters, treatment and instrumentation have been the basis of strategic planning for many decades. But today the relative value of these reports has shrunk in comparison to new tools.

The best analogy is the product brochure.  It is very desirable to prepare product brochures and to mail them to prospects.  But power point presentations, emails, internet displays and many other tools have decreased the brochure importance.  The same is true for conventional market research reports.  They should be just one of the strategic planning tools.  Inadequacies of the conventional market research report are:

·       They  do not reflect the latest intelligence

·       They do not provide the specifics necessary for setting individual country, product and industry quotas

The knowledge explosion makes tremendous amounts of useful strategic data available.  Plant environmental and operating permits are hundreds of pages in length with detailed information on existing and planned process equipment as well as specific limits on modes of operation and effluent quality.  Municipal water boards post minutes of meetings with details on expansion plans and problems.  Bid reviews supply competitor prices.  Publicly held companies provide continuing updates of their expansion plans. 

Millions of pages are added to the internet in one form or another each month. They contain valuable competitor, regulatory, technical and commercial information. The flow control and treatment markets are often changed by technology improvements. News on these improvements is not limited to European and American sources.  China is generating large amounts of valuable technical analysis and is moving forward with the most sophisticated technology such a zero liquid discharge systems (ZLD).

Strategic planners need to work with their sales, marketing and engineering counterparts to take advantage of this knowledge explosion. The result can be market forecasts with enough detail to set realistic quotas for the local salesmen. The resultant analyses should be detailed enough to set research and promotion budgets.

Holistic Approach to Market Research

This effort will be costly but, if the result is not only good intelligence but actionable information resulting in sales, the value well exceeds the cost.

McIlvaine provides the services to achieve this holistic approach. Specific choices can be found under:

Markets      Databases       People

Headlines for Utility E-Alert – July 24, 2015

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1233– July 24, 2015

Table of Contents

COAL – US

• Washington State Regulators look at Cost of retiring Coal-fired Power Plants

GAS/OIL – U.S.

• Talen to acquire Three Natural Gas-fired Power Plants for $1.2 Billion
• Old Coal and Oil Salem Power Plant being replaced by New Gas-fired Salem Harbor Station
• Bechtel breaks Ground on New Combined Cycle Power Plant in Carroll County, Ohio

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• New 237 MW Combined Cycle Thermal Power Plant launches in Gardabani, Georgia
• Edison S.p.A signs Joint Development Agreement with QALAA to build a Combined Cycle Power Plant in Abu Qir, Egypt

NUCLEAR

·       Calvert Cliffs 3 Nuclear License Application withdrawn

·       Armenia confirms Ongoing Role for Nuclear

·       China plans Two Nuclear Power Plants in Iran

·       Fluor to provide Maintenance to Texas Nuclear Power Plant

·       SCE&G uses World’s Largest Crane to Lift and Set 2.4-Million Pound Module

BUSINESS

·       Entergy New Orleans to absorb Larger Share of Cost to buy an Arkansas Power Plant

·       Florida PSC approves Duke buy of Calpine's Osprey Gas-fired Power Plant

·       Symbion Power (US) partners with His Excellency Hery Rajaonarimamplanina (Madagascar) for Seven New Power Plants

·       Bhel gets Telangana Projects Sans Bidding

·       Hot Gas Filtration Questions Replace Regulations as the Most Important Air Pollution Control Subjects

·       Multi Billion Dollar Zero Liquid Discharge Opportunity in China

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• Mercury Hot Topic Hour unveils New Findings and Options – July 23
• “Gas Turbine Emission Control and Exhaust Systems” is the Hot Topic Hour on August 6, 2015 at 10 a.m. CDT
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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Bob McIlvaine, President
847-784-0012 ext 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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