Hot Gas Filtration Decision Guides were reviewed in Hot Topic Hour Yesterday (April 21, 2016)

• Hot Gas Filter Decision Guides for suppliers and end users are being expanded and updated continuously. Alerts, insights and newsletters are providing the latest updates. These guides are free to owner/operators in the power, cement, steel, and waste-to-energy industries. Decision guides for coal-fired power, cement, steel, and waste-to-energy were reviewed. A decision guide for intake filters for gas turbines was also included.
• The coal-fired power related Decision Guides are available to suppliers in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions. The Gas Turbine Inlet Filter Decision Guide is available to suppliers in the Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Supplier Program. The other Decision Guides are available to suppliers in Industrial Air Plants and Projects. All the Decision Guides are also included in Detailed Forecasting of Markets, Prospects and Projects.
• A broader initiative is to create a vehicle to allow end users to easily select the product or system with the lowest total cost of ownership. Owner/operators in any country, but particularly in developing countries, have few resources to choose the hot gas filter product with the lowest cost of ownership. As a result the lowest priced local product is often selected over the better international choice.
• The McIlvaine Decision Guides and related services are focused on determining the ownership costs of various hot gas filtration options. Large multi-national end users are recognizing the value of the global sourcing/total cost of ownership analysis to reduce operating costs in all their plants. Arcelor Mittal has made substantial cost reductions with this combination. Through Global Sourcing they just placed an order with Hamon for sinter plant filters for plants in Poland, Belgium and Brazil.
• A large percentage of filter purchases are being made by the largest steel, cement and power companies. They make investments large enough to participate in total cost of ownership analyses.
• For those owner/operators who are emphasizing total cost of ownership the McIlvaine        services are an invaluable free resource. For suppliers with the best products there is a whole new route to markets promising not only higher revenues but higher margins.

The power point presentation is found at Hot Gas Filtration Slides