Subject:  Monitoring Market News for May ‘06

 

Here are the excerpts for the month of May 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

 

May 2006

MARKETS

The market for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) to measure pollutants discharged from stacks will rise to $583 million/yr in 2009. The total monitoring market including ambient monitoring and stack testing will reach the $ billion level world wide in 2009. These are the conclusions provided in “Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling World Markets.”………………………………………………………………………………………….

  

The coal-fired boiler mercury CEMS market will account for as much as 10 percent of the total market over the next few years. Mercury control requirements for power plants in the U.S. will necessitate CEM.................................................................................................................

 

The waste incineration market, CEMS market, is slated to grow steadily. Because of the many pollutants which must be measured CEMS can exceed $500,000 for a single incinerator. The waste-to-energy market is growing rapidly in Europe and Asia…………………………………

 

Mass particulate monitoring will experience double digit growth world wide. Over the next five years more countries will turn to mass monitoring to replace the present opacity systems. Opacity monitors have long served to………………………………………...................................

 

EIA in Major Reversal Now Predicts Coal Will Grow and Gas Will Not………………………...

 

McIlvaine has been predicting a bigger role for coal in electricity generation for several years. Now the EIA has reversed its earlier predictions and projects coal to be the dominant fuel for future power generation. This will greatly increase the market for CEMS…………………….

 

REGULATIONS

In a related action, EPA also issued a final rule today to include Delaware and New Jersey in CAIR requiring these states to control SO2 and NOx emissions from their power plants. Both states are……………………………………………………………………………………………

 

EPA also finalized federal implementation plan (FIP) rules which provide for a federal emission reduction back-up plan should a state fail to put an adequate implementation plan in place on time. The FIP rules rely upon the same model emission cap and trade programs that EPA established in the CAIR and provide………………………………………………………...

 

 

 

 

The rule was drafted during the tenure of William Wehrum, acting head of EPA’s air office, and would reverse longstanding agency policy. The rule also seeks to go much further than a controversial 2003 approach sought by Wehrum’s predecessor, Jeffrey Holmstead……………

 

The Clean Air Act requires EPA to impose standards for 188 different toxic substances emitted by industrial sources, ranging from benzene and asbestos to chlorine and formaldehyde. The draft rule would loosen restrictions on these toxic substances emitted by some 174 industrial sectors………………………………………………………………………...

 

SHIPPING

As shipping nations consider new air pollution standards for ships, environmental, and public health organizations are calling for 70 percent to 80 percent reductions in ship smokestack emissions to reduce premature death, cancers and respiratory ailments suffered by people living and working near ports. The………………………………………………………………

 

PROJECTS

The Santa Barbara County (Air Pollution Control District) continues to seek proposals from private and public entities in the county for projects to reduce air pollution from heavy-duty diesel engines, according to the terms and conditions of the……………………………………

 

 

 

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Bob McIlvaine

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