Insights of the Week

Join us for our Cleanroom IIoT webinar on "Thursday, April 20 at 10:00 AM

Semiconductor, pharmaceutical and other manufacturers need ultraclean environments. The webinar will cover the opportunity for continuous remote monitoring of recirculating air and water used in critical processes along with development of smarter mini environments and better sensors to track personnel activity and contamination. We will also be covering activities of individual companies as illustrated from some of the headlines in a recent McIlvaine IIoT and Remote Monitoring Newsletter:

Vaisala Continuous Monitors Keep Pharma Cleanrooms Audit Ready

Terra has Wireless Control System to Minimize Cleanroom Fan Energy Consumption

Lighthouse Software Provides Tracking of Air Cleanliness and Conditions

Mahindra Remotely Monitors Indian Cleanrooms

ENVIRCO Controls Air Flow in Cleanroom Filtration Systems

ABB Robotics Has Introduced Its Smallest Ever Cleanroom Robot

IIoT Weekly Webinars each week include Ultrapure Water on April 27 and Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals on May 4. Free registration for all these webinars is linked from Weekly IIoT Webinars

Valve Decisions for gas turbine power plants are critical.

The latest Gas Turbine Decisions Updates chronicles all the problems with valves and attemperators in gas turbine combined cycle plants 59D Gas Turbine and Reciprocating Engine Decisions. Solutions to the valve problems are being discussed and resolved in High Performance Valves and IIoT. Solutions for the BHE plants are being analyzed in 4S01 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and Utility Connect.

Lots of Asian coal-fired power plants are under construction in Asia.

Here are a few headlines from 41F Utility E-Alert

Mudajaya Group (Malaysia) reaches deal with GE Power and Alstom Power

NTPC arm ties up $1.6 Billion for Maitree Power Plant in Bangladesh

Chhabra Thermal Power Station 1,320 MW expansion is under construction in India

KSK Mahanadi Power Project under construction in Chhattisgarh, India

Details on all the coal-fired plants are found in 42EI Utility Tracking System

Oil, gas and refining project list is expanding.

Here some headlines over the last few days appearing in N049 Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects

Alfa Laval to Provide Packinox Heat Exchangers to West Africa Refinery

MMEX Resources and KP Engineering to design, build crude oil refinery in Permian Basin (07, T17)

Mediterranean Gas Pipeline Could Be Built by 2025

Shell Plans to Double India's Hazira LNG Plant Capacity

Poland Considers Building Floating LNG Terminal By 2021 (07, T19)

Ultrapure Water IIoT and Remote O&M Market will exceed $800 Million in 2026

Operators of ultrapure water systems in power plants, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and other industries requiring ultrapure water will invest $5 billion in hardware, consumables and services this year to provide high purity water for manufacturing processes. This is the forecast in Ultrapure Water World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. Seven percent of the total expenditures ($350 million) will be spent for IIoT and Remote O&M. The IIoT segment will grow rapidly over the next decade and reach $875 million by 2026. This will be due to rapid growth in digital process management as outlined in  N031 Industrial IOT and Remote O&M.

Asia will dominate the market due to its continued expansion of coal-fired power, electronics manufacturing and its leading role in generic drugs. However, international companies are dominant in IIoT and in domain expertise, so they should be able to garner a high Asian market share.

The IIoT & Remote O&M applied to the manufacturing processes will be much larger but ultrapure water is essential to producing reliable steam, salable chips and safe drugs. The challenge is to integrate ultrapure water digital process management with that of the facility.

In the electronics industries, ultrapure water with a very high degree of purity is used to clean silicon wafers and electronic components. Kurita Water Industries combines IIoT and remote monitoring with a range of products such as deionizers, RO (reverse osmosis) membranes, water treatment chemicals, and ion-exchange resins. Kurita also offers a number of wastewater treatment systems and wastewater reclamation systems that provide an optimal means for treating the organic and inorganic wastewater discharged during the various production processes.

Kurita defines IT sensing technology as the foundation of solutions provided to customers, and visualizes the water treatment status using its original system to provide services for the remote monitoring of customers' water treatment conditions. The purpose of these services is to monitor the water treatment conditions and effects of treatment on a real-time basis with customers at their sites, and to share information about water treatment issues that need to be addressed together so that Kurita can quickly implement more beneficial solutions to all the issues customers face.

Kurita analyzes the water quality of target facilities on a daily basis and reports the analysis results to customers. It launched a new water treatment management service called "S.sensing" with the aim of building higher value-added systems for customers by visualizing the water treatment effect more directly.

It will realize optimal water treatment in real time with a system that combines Kurita's original core technologies for measurement, analysis, control, and monitoring by installing the sensing equipment in the plant facilities of customers.

With this system, it controls and optimizes chemicals injected in response to changes in water quality on a real-time basis at the target facilities where water treatment chemicals are used, based on the automatic analysis of the effective density of chemicals and the water treatment effect, along with conventional services to monitor data such as water quality, the amounts of the chemicals injected, and the remaining amounts of chemicals. The items of measured data are instantly transferred to Kurita's server, allowing it to check the water treatment management status as needed from a computer, a smartphone, or a tablet terminal connected to the Internet.

Kurita will promote higher-quality solutions, such as the ex ante prediction of problems, the realization of more efficient water treatment specifications, the improvement of productivity, and the reduction of the environmental impact by sharing various kinds of information with customers through the S.sensing services. This information includes items such as the status and effect of water treatment management, the operation data of water treatment facilities, and trends of other temporal changes. The diagram below provides the components in a system providing ultrapure water for liquid crystal display manufacturing.

Kurita Water Industries

Suez has the opportunity to become the leader in ultrapure water IIoT and Remote O&M. It is acquiring GE Water who has the ultrapure water technology while Suez is remotely monitoring facilities around the world from a center in France. For manufacturers of pharmaceuticals GE Water now offers water treatment, reactor cleaning, USP/UPW production, process fluids treatment and pharmacopoeia monitoring instruments. Its purchase of Sievers many years ago makes it a leading supplier of TOC and other water quality instrumentation.

The former GE Betz, who is a major provider of chemicals for ultrapure water, will also now be part of Suez. This group has a large staff of sales engineers who are providing a service as well as sales role. In the future with more IIoT and Remote O&M onsite service will be diminished.

Veolia combines systems and monitoring with mobile fleets with the following features:

·        Global network at your local service

·        Rapid response

·        High flow rates capacity solutions

·        Zero discharge

·        Continuous production

·        Preventive service

These capabilities will provide Veolia with the capability in the future to remotely monitor and control ultrapure water at the plant with a combination of permanent and mobile systems.

Ultrapure water systems require pumps and valves. The suppliers of these pumps and valves are the same companies who supply this flow control equipment to power, semiconductor and pharmaceutical plants. In the future IIoT world the pump and valve suppliers will all have remote control centers and digital process management programs for their products. There will be a remote-control center operating a cloud based open platform system which will integrate and analyze all the pumps and valves as well as all the other components and processes. The end users, main digital process manager and the pump and valve companies will all have real time relevant data.

The treatment chemicals companies will be monitoring chemical usage and performance. Filter companies will be monitoring filters for ultrapure water, wastewater, lubrication, hydraulic power and dust collection. All the fans and compressors will be similarly monitored and controlled.

A webinar to discuss this subject is scheduled for April 27. You can register at Weekly IIoT Webinars.

Details on the market report for ultrapure water systems and components are described at Ultrapure Water World Markets.

All markets for IIoT are covered in IIoT And Remote O&M

Bob McIlvaine
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