Subject: Monitoring Market News
Here are excerpts for the month of November in the Updates to Air Pollution Monitoring & Sampling World Markets. The updates reflect only some of the new additions. The analysis and revenues are constantly revised. For more information, click on:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/air.html#NO31.
APM&S Market
Update
November 2005
Pulp and Paper Mills
There are about 500 kraft mills, and many thousands of other types of pulp and paper mills, in the world. Primary concerns include the use of chlorine-based bleaches and resultant toxic emissions to air, water, and soil. With global annual growth forecast at 2.5 percent, the industry and its negative impacts could double by 2025.
Mercury Emissions
TSI Instruments Inc. (Shoreview, MN) has acquired Tekran Inc. (Toronto, Ont.), a provider of ultra-trace instrumentation with an emphasis on detecting and measuring mercury vapor. “Mercury emission monitoring and abatement is the next focus in point-source environmental protection,” said TSI CEO John Fauth. “Tekran’s technical superiority, backed by TSI’s manufacturing and management capabilities in precision instrumentation and enhanced by (TSI unit) ESC’s expertise in monitoring, software and field service, means that customers don’t have to wait for the market to mature to address their needs; they can act now and do so with confidence.”
Air Emission Reduction
Chicago, IL U.S.A. – Sargent & Lundy LLC has been awarded a contract by Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to provide detailed engineering for the recently announced major air emissions reduction projects at the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS). In addition to PNM, which operates the plant, SJGS is also owned by Tucson Electric Power, Southern California Public Power Authority, M-S-R Public Power Agency, Tri-State Generation & Transmission, City of Anaheim, Los Alamos County Utilities, City of Farmington, and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. The engineering contract for the program at the 1,798-megawatt, coal-fired plant near Farmington, N.M. includes:
· Mercury control technology on all four units to reduce mercury emissions. After initial evaluation of the performance of this technology on Units 3 and 4, PNM will install the technology on the plant’s remaining two units.
· New advanced low-nitrogen oxide (NOx) burners and overfire air on all four units to reduce the NOx emissions rate by 35 percent from the current permitted level.
· Baghouse control technology on the plant’s four units to reduce the particulate matter emission rate by 70 percent from the current permitted level.
· Additional sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions reductions from increased scrubbing by enhancing the removal efficiency of the existing pollution control system to 90 percent.
Clean Air Agreement
(Washington, D.C.- October 11, 2005) ExxonMobil has reached a comprehensive Clean Air Act (CAA) agreement that is expected to reduce harmful air emissions by more than 53,000 tons per year at the company’s seven U.S. petroleum refineries, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The seven refineries, located in five states, represent approximately 11 percent of the total refining capacity in the United States. Today’s settlement is the 17th in a joint DOJ-EPA initiative to reduce pollution in domestic petroleum refineries nationwide, bringing nearly 77 percent of domestic refining capacity under consent decree. These settlements were reached without litigation as the companies agreed to work with the government in reaching settlements that would protect the environment and allow refiners to expand fuel production in compliance with the environmental laws.
“This settlement brings more than three-quarters of the refining capacity in this nation under legally-binding agreements to reduce their harmful emissions,” said Granta Y. Nakayama, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “That will lead to reductions of more than 315,000 tons of pollutants annually from the 17 refining companies that have agreed to come into compliance.
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