AWE MANAGEMENT
January 2022
Table of Contents
MARKETS
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Winning Orders at the 1000 Largest Pharma
Companies
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IIoW Collaboration will Result in Huge Benefits
for Suppliers and Purchasers of AWE Products
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HVAC Filter Markets Shaped by Cost Perceptions
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Blood Plasma Fractionation as an Example of a
Path to Greater Profits for Air, Water and
Energy (AWE) Suppliers
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US EPA Steps Up Enforcement Over Coal Ash Dams
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Five Imperatives to Thrive in a Hydrogen Future
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B&W Thermal Awarded Equipment Installation
Contracts with Large U.S. Utility Totaling More
Than $18 Million
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IHS Has a New Analysis on Decarbonization
Challenges
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Ducon to Provide Coal Clean Technology For 2 x
600 MW Singareni Thermal Power Plant in India
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1,000 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in China is Now
Online
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Indian Government to Require 100% Reuse of
Flyash
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Thermax Bags Rs. 545.6 Crore Order for Two Flue
Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Systems
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Andritz to Supply the 12th High-Efficiency
Powerfluid Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler to
Japan
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Valmet to Supply a Biomass Power Boiler and a
Flue Gas Cleaning System
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AWE Exhibitors at PowerGen
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Four Principles to Guide Decarbonization
Decisions
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Industry Support for Large-Scale Carbon Capture
and Storage Continues to Gain Momentum in
Houston
BIOMASS
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Biomass Must Come From Sustainable Sources
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Bain Helps Clients Manage and Report Carbon
Footprint
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45 TWh of BECCS by 2050
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Biomass Must Come From Sustainable Sources
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Bain Helps Clients Manage and Report Carbon
Footprint
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Trillions Should be Invested in Long Duration
Energy Storage
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ErgonArmor announces Changes to Sales, Marketing
and Distribution Program for Pennguard™ Block
Chimney Lining System
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Lots of Differences Between Stated Policies and
Plans For Net Zero
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Editor of Power Sees Lots of Bright Spots on the
Horizon
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PowerGen Moved to May Which Allows Time For IIoW
Causation Loops to be Prepared
MARKETS
Winning Orders at the 1000 Largest Pharma
Companies
Pharma Prospects provides
suppliers of air, water, and energy (AWE)
products with the ability to directly pursue the
1,0000 largest pharmaceutical prospects. This
service can be furnished as part of a bigger
initiative to win the orders. An example is
plasma fractionation. This niche accounted for
just under 10% of the AWE product sales to the
industry of $35 billion in 2022.
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The plasma fractionation market is growing at
more than 6% per year. CSL and Grifols generate
over 40% of the industry revenues. Takeda,
Octapharma, and Kedrion are also among the top
ten suppliers. The air, water, energy product
opportunities at each company have to take into
consideration other products and also contract
manufacturing.
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Most of the $8 billion in revenues generated by
CSL are tied to fractionation products. On the
other hand Takeda with revenues of $32 billion
is a larger AWE product purchaser even though
their fractionation related sales are less than
$3 billion.
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The opportunity is also continually shaped by
technology advances. GEA has a new separator.
Filter press suppliers are automating to
decrease total cost of ownership. The future
market for each of these competing products
needs to be continually assessed with a lowest
total cost of ownership (LTCO) analysis.
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The LTCO analysis is being created in an
Industrial Internet of Wisdom (IIoW) Causation
Loop. This includes fractionation articles
appearing in many magazines as explained at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1692-nr2678
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Pharma Prospects provides
suppliers of Air, Water, Energy Products with
analyses of the purchasers along with semiweekly
project and market news. The extensive profiles
are updated periodically. A convenient
search displays all the recent news on any of
the purchasers.
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This service is part of a bigger program which
provides detailed forecasting of each product at
each major prospect. Products and industry
segments are shown at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1688-nr2674
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For more information on Pharma Prospects click
on http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/83ai-pharma-prospects
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Bob McIlvaine can answer your questions at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com.
His cell is 847 226 2391.
IIoW Collaboration will Result in Huge Benefits
for Suppliers and Purchasers of AWE Products
Suppliers of high-performance air, water, and
energy (AWE) products could raise revenues by
$50 billion and purchasers could reduce total
cost of ownership by $100 billion if there was
coordination to create an Industrial Internet of
Wisdom (IIoW)
Management consultants can expand to provide
continuous support for their clients to achieve
this goal.
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Market analysts will need to make accurate
forecasts in each niche based on reliable cost
of ownership factors.
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Media and event organizers will need to expand
their scope to provide the basis for decision
making and purchase and not just education and
problem solving.
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For example a plasma fractionation manufacturer
is facing the confusing choice between depth
filtration and centrifugation. An IIoW program
is making this choice easier.
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The Non-wovens Industry Association (INDA), International
Filtration News (IFN), FiltXPO and
McIlvaine are creating an Industrial Internet of
Wisdom on Plasma Fractionation Filtration.
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The next issue of IFN will include an
article on the cost of ownership factors for
fractionation processes requiring filtration and
purification. There is a link to a background
document with extensive analysis by consultants
and others.
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An effort is underway to create a route map on
plasma fractionation at FiltXPO in Miami at the
end of March. It will connect speakers,
exhibitors, and attendees. McIlvaine has created
route maps at previous FiltXPO, PowerGen, and
WEFTEC exhibitions.
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McIlvaine and IFN have teamed to
provide a True Cost analysis in each issue of
the magazine. In the case of HVAC filters IFN has
been providing extensive coverage in articles
which are easily retrieved.
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With IIoW there is the connection to these past
articles. The links along with a summary of the
important cost of ownership insights have been
prepared and are explained at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1693-nr2679
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Management consultants have the opportunity to
provide continuous rather than periodic support
for their clients (suppliers or purchasers). The
technology, politics, and competition can
quickly obsolesce the best of studies.
Continuing guidance on IIoW is needed.
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Forecasters such as McIlvaine need to provide
analysis of the cost of ownership factors of
each product in each niche and even to the level
of individual larger purchasers and groups of
small purchasers.
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Purchasers need to be active participants.
General purpose product purchase decisions can
be made at the plant level. But buying a higher
priced product with the lowest total cost of
ownership requires lots of effort. IIoW reduces
the effort. Many companies have found that in
house expertise and centralized decision making
is necessary. Intel, BASF, and Arcelor Mittal
are examples of companies with individuals
assigned to insuring Lowest Total Cost of
Ownership LTCO purchases.
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The value of the IIoW initiative by purchasers
was demonstrated by BHE Energy and McIlvaine http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/BHPG/subscriber/Default.htm
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For IIoW to achieve maximum effectiveness it
needs to be structured in the same manner as
IIoT. This entails the adoption of commonly used
and accepted segmentation.
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Relative to applications, the starting point can
be the NAICS codes. The challenge comes in
agreeing on the second level of segmentation.
Should it be sugar or should cane and beet sugar
have equal status with plasma fractionation, and
green hydrogen. McIlvaine efforts on this are
shown at http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/Default.htm
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The identification of supplier companies is
complicated by name changes and unique names for
some divisions. It is further complicated by
language. Therefore McIlvaine developed a unique
number for each supplier.
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The segmentation by product is challenging.
Associations such as Hydraulic Institute (pumps)
and Valve Users along with exhibition organizers
such as Achema, IFAT, and Filtech can
collaborate to create product segmentations
which are granular enough to describe specific
products in each process and application.
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IIoW is all about connection of clearly defined
segments. There has been extensive collaboration
to create IIoT. The same level of collaboration
is needed to create IIoW for AWE products and
services.
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Bob McIlvaine is available to discuss ways
various companies can collaborate in this
initiative. You can contact him at 847 226
2391 or rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
HVAC Filter Markets Shaped by Cost Perceptions
The importance of indoor air quality has risen
greatly with COVID and now the Omicron variant.
Demand for higher efficiency air filters has
taxed suppliers. Questions relative to expansion
are necessarily based on the course of the
disease and technology developments. McIlvaine
is continually seeking knowledge relative to
HVAC filters in order to predict the markets.
Sources include conferences, publication,s and
insights from researchers on every continent.
Tyler Smith of Johnson Controls was a speaker at
a recent WFI conference where he emphasized
rating HVAC performance compared to outdoor air.
This performance based evaluation was the
reason Bob Burkhead, a filter testing company
CEO invested in a recirculating room system
which tests performance over time.
Cleanroom experts have a unique perspective.
They would say “why not rate performance
compared to an ISO 9 cleanroom”. This definition
is precise in terms of the number of allowable
particles of various sizes.
The semiconductor industry has unique insights.
They require air 100 times cleaner than a
pharmaceutical facility and 500,000 times
cleaner than typical ambient air.
There are two magazines and two upcoming
exhibitions where substantial insights will be
gained. The exhibitions are
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Filtech slated for Cologne, Germany March 8-10.
There are 450 exhibitors making it the largest
display for HVAC filters and media.
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FILTXPO will be held in Miami, FL March 29-30.
At previous events McIlvaine has prepared route
maps to allow people to arrange visits to booths
and speeches. One on HVAC filters is now in
preparation.
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Filtration and Separation has
a very powerful article retrieval system with
163 articles on HVAC. https://www.filtsep.com/search?query=HVAC
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International Filtration News (IFN) is
a publication of INDA. McIlvaine has written a
true cost column in every issue in the last
several years.
The article in the July 2021 issue is on a
decision guide to HVAC filters https://www.filtnews.com/the-value-of-hvac-filters-has-risen/
This guide relies on information from previous
issues. There is a link to a summary McIlvaine
prepared of past HVAC articles.
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/images/Products_and_Services/IFN_HVAC_TCO_Factors_06-25-21.pdf
This summary has an abstract and a link to each
article in IFN. There is also the
following takeaway by McIlvaine.
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Lowest total cost of ownership needs to include
the total cleanliness effect on the space. It
will be cumulative and can involve multiple
filters.
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The deterioration in the electrostatic charge
over time is a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
factor which is debated based on time and dust
loading as well as specific media
characteristics.
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Recognizing when a prefilter is required and
equally important, when you can go without one,
is a key to improving your TCO.
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A database of energy costs in each country and
in major regions of the U.S. would be very
beneficial. This could be a uniform basis for
determination of cost of ownership.
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The balance between pressure drops and
dust-loading capacities must be considered,
assuming the filters are similarly priced.
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Some of the same Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
(LTCO) advantages for nanofibers in mobility
applications can also be the case for stationary
HVAC applications.
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Are the LTCO factors for cabin air also valid
for HVAC Filters?
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Low pressure drop and no fiber shedding. This is
important for cleanrooms but how important is
fiber shedding in HVAC?
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The Well Health Safety Seal assigns a value to
life quality in the total cost of ownership.
QELD developed by McIlvaine is a unique metric
for better determining life quality impacts.
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The cost of upgrading filters can include major
system modifications.
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Perceived life quality is improved with HEPA
HVAC filters. If the installation costs and
energy consumption are low, then the higher
first cost is not significant.
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In the future greater weight will be placed on
the negative costs of air filter ownership (life
quality benefits which offset costs).
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Lowest total cost of ownership can be achieved
by a filter supplier who provides sensors and a
solution for the life of the filter instead of
just offering the filter.
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How useful is the MERV-A rating in LTCO
evaluations?
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Electrostatic charging methods differ. This
impacts both the variety of media which can be
charged and the effectiveness.
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Improvements in melt blown and other media need
to be continually assessed.
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Can nanofibers offer superior efficiency while
comparing in durability and energy consumption?
As can be seen from these articles there are
many factors to consider in filter selection.
The best decision today may not be the best one
tomorrow as variables such as new virus
variations and technology improvements develop.
The magazines and conferences are an invaluable
resource for decision making. The challenge is
to make the information accessible and utilized.
The main goal for the McIlvaine Company is to
fully understand the TCO factors in each niche
in order to make market forecasts.
However, unless the end user also relies on the
same TCO factors as McIlvaine, the forecasts
will be inaccurate.
Therefore, McIlvaine will continue to
collaborate with the media to establish a common
set of TCO factors in each niche. There are
1000s of such air, water, energy niches.
Information establishing common TCO factors in a
number of niches is shown on the Holistic
Marketing Program page at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/30-general/1658-holistic-content-marketing-program
More information on specific reports is found
under “Markets” at the top of www.mcilvainecompany.com
Bob McIlvaine can answer your questions at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com.
His cell is 847 226 2391
Blood Plasma Fractionation as an Example of a
Path to Greater Profits for Air, Water and
Energy (AWE) Suppliers
Lowering the total cost of ownership for AWE
products used in blood fractionation can
increase supplier EBITA. The McIlvaine
initiative explaining this may be found at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1691-nr2677
McIlvaine’s primary role is to generate
the millions of AWE forecasts and competitor
analyses needed by suppliers. This is only
possible with the Industrial Internet of Wisdom
(IIoW), which relies on knowledge generated by
the media, associations and conference
organizers.
Blood Plasma is a significant AWE market with
innovation driving higher EBITA.
Revenues are approaching $40 billion per year.
The top 10 producers account for more than 50
million liters per year.
Products include immunoglobulins, coagulation
factor concentrates, albumins, protease
inhibitors, and other products.
Processes include fractionation, concentration,
pre- and post-virus inactivation, purification
and buffer production, storage, and
distribution.
CRB, a provider of integrated systems for the
biotechnology industry, has given a number of
AWE insights to pursue including
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Pre-built cleanroom wall systems and
prefabricated pipe racks for hygienic piping
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Alternative separation choices
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Centrifuges (disc or other)
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Depth filters (filter press, cartridge, rotating
disc)
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Chromatography
Instrumentation revenues are affected by
equipment choices but can also drive them. For
example CRB believes that better automated
filter presses will gain market share from
centrifuges.
IIoT & Remote O&M includes guide, control, and
measure products. It provides the needed total
cost of ownership factors for components and
consumables. It therefore should be used
for purchasing decisions.
New developments need continuous assessment. GEA
has introduced its fully automatic separator,
the hycon®, which enables one-touch
production for separation of blood plasma and
plasma proteins in cleanroom applications.
Filtration media choices are crucial. Depth
filters are the first choice for the separation
of precipitates and clarification processes in
dedicated fractionation steps according to
Eaton. Because proteins and process parameters,
such as ethanol concentration and pH vary
throughout the process, it is essential to
choose the right filter media for the
appropriate process.
EMD Millipore recommends Single-Pass Tangential
Flow Filtration (SPTFF) for concentrating a
plasma-derived Immunoglobulin G (IgG) solution
from 10% to 20%. Alternative filter choices have
different pressure requirements. This affects
pump and valve selection.
Pall tangential cross flow filtration is a
popular option.
The pursuit of wisdom for blood fractionation
AWE will be pursued on a continuing basis. It
will include articles to be published.
Articles: February - March 2022
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International Filtration News:
True Cost of Filters, Separators and Media for
Plasma Fractionation (McIlvaine True Cost
articles appear in each issue)
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Valve World Americas:
Process and CIP Valves for Plasma Fractionation
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Pump Engineer:
Pumps for processing, cooling and CIP in Plasma
Fractionation
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Hose & Coupling:
H&C for processing, cooling and CIP in Plasma
Fractionation
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Stainless Steel World Americas:
Stainless Steel for processing, cooling and CIP
in Plasma Fractionation
Exhibitions: March
FILTEXPO, March 29-31, Miami. Route map to
speakers, exhibitors and attending experts who
have wisdom relative to plasma fractionation
filters and media.
Articles and Exhibitions: April 2022 and
subsequently.
There are plans for additional articles in
cleanroom and pharmaceutical magazines. Mark
Allen Group through Filtration and
Separation is a sponsor of FILTEXPO. It
also owns World Pumps and will be
contacted for future articles.
The IIoW approach for bioethanol is explained
at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1690-nr2676
The niches in the pharmaceutical industry are
listed at http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/other-services/free-news/news-releases/47-uncategorised/news/1688-nr2674
For more information on this program contact Bob
McIlvaine at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
cell 847 226 2391
COAL – U.S.
US EPA Steps Up Enforcement Over Coal Ash Dams
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
proposed rejecting requests to continue to
dispose of coal ash in unlined dams at three
major coal-fired power plants. The coal-fired
power plants are the 1304 MW Clifty Creek plant
in Indiana, the 2600 MW James M. Gavin plant in
Ohio and the 726 MW Ottumwa plant in Iowa. The
EPA determined the continued use of coal ash
dams at the three plants should not be allowed
as defects in their proposed management could
prevent adequate groundwater cleanup.
The EPA proposed conditional approval for the
operation of the coal ash dam at the 1371 MW
H.L. Spurlock Power Station plant in Kentucky,
subject to rectifying groundwater monitoring
issues.
Current EPA regulations require most of the
estimated 500 unlined coal ash dams to begin
closure by April 2021 but allow utilities to
apply for an extension. The EPA is considering a
further 48 requests for an extension on the
closure deadline. Earthjustice and the Southern
Environmental Law Center welcomed the EPA
decisions as a strong signal that power
utilities cannot continue to operate leaking,
unlined ash dams.
Five Imperatives to Thrive in a Hydrogen Future
Aaron Denman, Mark Porter, Peter Parry, and
Peter Meijer of Bain outline the steps to a
hydrogen future;
The most plausible scenarios point to the
emergence of an attractive market, so it would
be a strategic misstep for companies to take a
backseat position. Across industries, executives
should be looking at the potential applications
for hydrogen and working back through the value
chain to determine which are most feasible—and
where to place their bets. To give executives a
better view of the possibilities, Bain analyzed
the potential market and identified five
no-regrets actions to take in order to position
your company for success in the hydrogen market
of the future.
Bain researched several scenarios for the growth
of the hydrogen market, taking into
consideration the full range of potential future
applications, hydrogen’s ability to play a
meaningful role against zero-emission
alternatives, based on whether hydrogen is the
right solution, as well as factors such as cost
competitiveness, and the readiness of technology
and supply to meet demand. As renewable energy
becomes more cost competitive, green hydrogen
will become less expensive to produce.
Supporting technologies, such as carbon capture
and electrolyzers, will become less expensive as
they are built out. Increases in carbon prices
and taxation will further improve hydrogen’s
competitiveness, and government subsidies will
act as a catalyst to accelerate learning and
cost decline.
The Bain base case scenario, an integrated
industry, points toward a global market of 300
million metric tons (Mtons) by 2050 with the
potential to establish a profit pool of more
than $250 billion This would represent an
initial period of modest growth from 2020 to
2030, with demand accelerating after that.
In this scenario, Bain assumes most major
industries will increase their use of hydrogen,
some more than others. For example, in
transportation Bain expects battery electric
vehicles to become the standard for most vehicle
categories, and hydrogen to play a role in
specific vehicle classes like heavy-duty trucks,
or for specific applications where hydrogen has
an advantage over alternatives—for example,
where batteries would be too heavy. In this
scenario, we assume transportation and
industrial applications will make up 80% of the
demand, with power, heat, and other uses making
up the rest. Since some of these high-potential
applications will require significant
investments in infrastructure (for example,
hydrogen fuel stations for transportation) or
process changeovers (such as replacing
traditional blast furnaces to enable a direct
reduced iron process in steel production),
short-term opportunities may be found in other
industrial or power applications.
We could also see an accelerated uptake scenario
in which, for example, hydrogen plays a role as
fuel for power production or energy storage for
renewables, depending on the decarbonization
plans of major power utilities. However, given
the uncertainties in the uptake of technologies
and relative competitiveness of hydrogen,
adoption could be much slower, which would
result in something closer to the focused uptake
scenario with an estimate of 185 Mtons by 2050.
Both blue and green hydrogen (that is, hydrogen
from low-carbon and zero-carbon sources) make up
less than 1% of total hydrogen production today.
Significant advances in technology and
experience will have to occur to make these
competitive, along with more renewable energy,
infrastructure for the transport and storage of
hydrogen, and a large installed base of
industrial applications to nurture growth.
Public investments will be required to create
the right initial opportunities and catalyze
market growth until hydrogen, blue or green, can
be competitive at scale on its own.
Winning in the hydrogen value chain
Hydrogen will
need to be cost competitive against other low-
or zero-carbon solutions. Here, adoption speed
will depend on factors like the availability of
low-cost renewable energy to make green hydrogen
and the availability of alternative supply chain
infrastructure for hydrogen
The complete article is available at
https://www.bain.com/insights/five-imperatives-to-thrive-in-a-hydrogen-future/
B&W Thermal Awarded Equipment Installation
Contracts with Large U.S. Utility Totaling More
Than $18 Million
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced that its B&W
Thermal segment has been awarded contracts
totaling more than $18 million to install
equipment to improve the operating efficiency,
performance, and increase availability for two
power plants for a large U.S. utility. B&W’s
subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co.,
LLC (BWCC), will install waterwall panels,
reheater tubes, and other technologies.
“BWCC provides field construction, construction
management, and maintenance services for
projects of all sizes for utilities and
industrial customers, including for renewable
energy, environmental, and decarbonization
projects,” said B&W Chief Operating Officer
Jimmy Morgan. “Our goal is always to help our
customers maintain and improve their plants’
operation, efficiency, and availability so that
they can continue to reliably serve their
customers.”
BWCC provides outage services, installation,
refurbishment, mechanical repair, and
maintenance services for a variety of
industries, equipment, and plant installations,
regardless of the original manufacturer. Some
industries served include power utility, oil &
gas, oil sands, chemical and petrochemical, pulp
& paper, biomass, waste-to-energy, and general
manufacturing.
IHS Has a New Analysis on Decarbonization
Challenges
Some highlights were summarized by
Etienne
Gabel and
Xizhou Zhou.
Should the power sector indeed lead a
full-fledged global energy transition effort,
then, according to one of the IHS Markit deep
decarbonization scenarios, over 2021-50 the
world may need to add about 28,000 GW of clean
generation capacity, or 5.5 times more per year
than was added annually over the past 10 years.
This represents a total future investment of
approximately $30-40 trillion. On a
comparative basis it is a big scale up in
offshore wind and batteries.
The ability to achieve this will depend on the
level of commitment. A good example is
the European Commission, which has committed to
building 60 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030
and 300 GW by 2050.
The report can be found at
Decarbonizing electric power: Key challenges and
opportunities after the 2021 global energy
crunch and COP26 climate negotiations | IHS
Markit
COAL – WORLD
Ducon to Provide Coal Clean Technology For 2 x
600 MW Singareni Thermal Power Plant in India
Ducon Infratechnologies Limited
will provide its proprietary Coal Clean
Technology, Fuel Gas Desulphurization (FGD)
system for a 2x600 MW Thermal Power Plant, of
the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd., awarded
to an EPC organization Ducon has partnered with.
This project was jointly bid by Ducon’s
affiliate, Ducon Technologies Inc., USA with a
leading EPC organization in the Indian
subcontinent and utilizes Ducon’s proprietary
and most advanced Limestone Flue Gas
Desulfurization technology. Ducon will provide
its LFGD execution expertise to the project from
concept to commissioning. The anticipated value
of the order for Ducon will be in the range of
INR 150 – 200 Crore. This is the Third Coal
Clean Technology / FGD project being secured by
Ducon in the current financial year. The other
two Coal Clean Technology/FGD projects, where
orders are still awaited, are from NTPC for 2 x
250 MW Barauni Thermal Power Station, Stage-II
and 2 x 195 MW Muzaffarpur Thermal Power
Station, Stage-II with an order values in the
range of INR 500-600 Crore and INR 100 to 150
Crore respectively.
With over 200 GW of Coal-Fired
Power/Steel/Cement and other plants, India’s
commitment on Green Energy/Emission standards
and strict regulatory mandates, Indian companies
will spend an approximate US$ 20 billion on
Fossil Fuel Clean Technologies/Greening of
Fossil Fuels and Green Energy sources expanding
the Fossil Fuel Clean Technology market
exponentially in the next 2-3 years.
1,000 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in China is Now
Online
Guodian Power Shanghaimiao Corp., part of the
state-owned China Energy Investment Corp,
reported that the new 1,000 MW Unit 1 of the
Shanghaimiao power plant is online after a
168-hour testing period. The facility is the
largest coal-fired power plant currently being
built in China. A recent report from researchers
at China’s State Grid Corp. said the country’s
need to satisfy increased demand for electricity
could bring development of up to 150 GW of new
generation capacity by year-end 2025. That would
put China’s known coal-fired generation capacity
at about 1,230 GW. More details are shown at
Indian Government to Require 100% Reuse of
Flyash
Recently, the Centre government drafted the new
fly ash utilization rule for Thermal Power
Plants(TPPs), bringing them to mandatory utilize
100% of fly ash within three
to five years. Existing provisions allow TPPs to
fully utilize fly ash in a three-year
cycle in
a staggered manner.
Thermax Bags Rs. 545.6 Crore Order for Two Flue
Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Systems
Thermax Limited has concluded an order of Rs.
545.6 crore from an Indian power public sector
company to set up flue gas desulfurization (FGD)
systems for their two units of 500 MW capacity
each in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
The FGD systems will be installed at their plant
to cut down SOx emissions and comply
with the air quality standards set for the power
plants.
In the current financial year, this is our
second FGD order. "Our proven technological
capabilities in the area of air pollution and
gaseous abatement, especially FGD, where we are
already executing a few large orders, led to
this competitive win. In addition to supporting
the customer in meeting statutory compliance
related to industrial pollution norms, the
project reinforces our commitment to the
environment," says Ashish Bhandari, MD & CEO,
Thermax Limited.
The scope of supply includes design,
engineering, manufacturing, civil work,
construction, and commissioning of the FGD
systems. The project is slated to be completed
in 30 months.
Andritz to Supply the 12th High-Efficiency
Powerfluid Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler to
Japan
Andritz has received another order from
Toyo Engineering Corporation
in Japan to supply a 50-MWe PowerFluid
circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler on an EPS
basis. The boiler will be part of the biomass
power plant in Tahara-shi, Aichi Prefecture, in
Japan. Start-up is planned for 2025.
The
Andritz PowerFluid boiler will be integrated
into a biomass-fired power generation facility
that will be fueled by wood pellets. With its
high efficiency and state-of-the-art technology,
it is the perfect solution to meet greenhouse
gas reduction targets and contribute towards
carbon neutrality in Japan.
The biomass power plant will be capable of
supplying power for roughly 110,000 households
in Japan.
Valmet to Supply a Biomass Power Boiler and a
Flue Gas Cleaning System
Valmet will supply a biomass power boiler and a
flue gas cleaning system to Tahara Biomass Power
LLC in Tahara, Japan. The new CFB (circulating
fluidized bed) boiler will enable the customer’s
power plant to achieve a stable power supply at
high thermal efficiency while significantly
reducing CO2 emissions. This is
already the sixth order received for Valmet's
CFB boiler to the Japanese market since 2016.
The order was included in Valmet's orders
received in the third quarter 2021. The value of
this kind of order is typically around €70
million. The installation work is scheduled to
start in 2023, and the plant will start
commercial operation during 2025.
The project will be delivered in cooperation
with the Japanese company JFE Engineering
Corporation. JFE Engineering will be the EPC
(Engineering, Procurement and Construction)
contractor for the Tahara Biomass Power Plant.
"We are proud to supply one of the largest
biomass-fired boiler plants in Japan with a
maximum biomass combustion capacity. This is
also our sixth boiler plant order in a row with
JFE Engineering Corporation, which is a proof of
our long and trustful cooperation," says Jari
Niemelä, Director, Boilers and Gasifiers, Energy
business unit, Valmet.
AWE Exhibitors at PowerGen
The following is coverage of the exhibitors with
AWE products. Details are found at
https://www.powergen.com/
AVS USA Inc.
- Booth #2472
Advanced Valve Solutions USA is a worldwide
provider of Hora and Persta Control Valves for
the Power industry. We can help you upgrade your
power Stations from Baseload to Cycling
operations. We provide Hp, IP, LP Bypass,
Feedwater control, Attemperator, OTC (GE/Alstom
GT24,GT26 units), Drain and Main Steam Stop
valves in Gate, Globe and Check valves.
Brands: Advanced
Valve Solutions USA Inc, Hora, Persta. HP
Bypass, Attemperation, Feedwater Control, OTC
(GE/Alstom GT24,GT26), Drain and Main Steam Stop
Valves. Gate, Globe and Check
AeriNOx
- Booth #5837
AeriNOx is an environmental engineering company.
Our strength is helping customers comply with
federal and local emission regulations targeting
process machines, marine vessels, offshore rigs,
stationary diesel and natural gas engines and
turbines. Come see us at booth #5837
Brands: SCR,
Catalyst, NOx, PM, HC, Emissions, Oxidation
Babcock Power -
Booth - MR-5665
Babcock Power, Inc., provides customers with
safe, efficient, environmentally responsible
generation solutions worldwide. Its extensive
portfolio includes patented technology,
equipment, and aftermarket services for heat
exchangers, HRSGs, steam generators, boilers,
and environmental AQCS; for the global power
generation, combined cycle, industrial,
environmental, refinery, petrochemical, solar,
biomass, and waste-to-energy markets. Babcock
Power subsidiaries: Vogt Power International
Inc., Thermal Engineering International (USA)
Inc., Babcock Power Services Inc., Riley Power
Inc., Boiler Tube Company of America, TEi
Construction Services Inc., Babcock Power
Environmental Inc., and GSI Geo-Synthetics
Systems.
Brands: HRSG;
harps; pressure parts; construction, outage &
maintenance services; condensers; heat
exchangers; geosynthetics; retrofits; studies;
rebuild; field engineering; inspections;
fabrication.
Bray
- Booth #4356
Bray International, Inc. has a global presence
in over 60 countries. Bray's product portfolio
includes butterfly valves (resilient seated,
high performance, triple offset and PFA lined),
ball valves (floating, PFA lined, severe service
and trunnion), knife gate valves, check valves,
pneumatic and electric actuators, and control
accessories.
Brands: Bray,
Bray International, Bray Controls, Flow-Tek,
Bray/Rite, Bray/VAAS, Ultraflo, Amresist
Buffalo Pumps
- Booth #5301
Buffalo Pumps is a custom manufacturer of
centrifugal pumps for demanding and critical
applications. It states that it is the leader in
supplying heavy duty, cost competitive lube oil
pumps to the power generation industry since
1950.
Catalytic Combustion
- Booth #5944
Emission control design, development, and
manufacturing.
Catalytic Combustion Corporation is an emission
control Technology company developing and
manufacturing products that remove harmful
substances and noise from process exhaust.
Champion Valves
- Booth #5810
Champion Valves, Inc. has a complete range of
high-quality and competitively priced industrial
check valves. It maintains a large inventory of
finished valves, backed by decades of experience
and exceptional customer service.
Brands: CVR
Dual Disc Wafer Check SDR Single Disc Wafer
Check NZ Axial Flow Nozzle Globe Check NZW Axial
Flow Nozzle Wafer Check SCW Silent Wafer Check
SCG Silent Globe Check SCT Silent Threaded Check
Chicago Valves and Controls -
Booth #3837
Conval Booth
– Booth #5038
Brands: Clampseal
Y- Pattern, T-Pattern and Angle Pattern Globe
and Check valves Camseal high
pressure/temperature MSBV's SwivlDisc gate
valves Whisperjet pressure control
Doosan
- Booth #5035
Endress & Hauser
- Booth #3944
Flexitallic
– Booth #5438
Manufactures industrial static sealing products.
Flexitallic also offers custom engineering
solutions for toughest applications. The newest
product line is the Change Gasket.
Brands: Change
Gasket, Thermiculite, Sigma, Flexpro, Spiral
Wound Gaskets, DJs, PTFE, SEL Graphite
Flo-Tite
- Booth #5831
Flo-Tite Inc. is a manufacturer of high quality
ball valves and actuation equipment. Products
range from standard commercial type Ball Valves
to high-pressure metal seated Control Valves.
Flo-Tite Inc. is a manufacturer of high quality
ball valves and actuation equipment. The company
maintains an inventory of standard valves in
Carbon, Stainless, Steel and Alloy 20.
GEA
- Booth #5755
Centrifugal separators from GEA are used in
power plants to treat fuel oils and lube oils
for turbines and diesel engines. Precision
separation is essential to the smooth operation
of generators. The result is a reliable,
cost-effective supply of energy and efficient
use of natural resources. An uninterrupted power
supply requires systems that operate
trouble-free, efficiently, and reliably in all
load ranges.
Treatment systems from GEA are designed to
assure constantly high availability. In all
these fields of application, the OSE separator
generation is entering a new dimension. GEA
offers
·
Fuel oil treatment for diesel engines and gas
turbines
·
Lube oil treatment
·
Treatment of oil-water-solids mixtures
Brands: Fuel
& Lube Oil Treatment; Fuel Oil Conditioning;
Wastewater & Sludge Treatment; Cat Fines Removal
GKN Hydrogen
- Booth #4134
GKN Hydrogen, a division of GKN Powder
Metallurgy, is pioneering safe, emission-free
green hydrogen storage to help organizations and
societies around the world achieve their carbon
neutrality goals. We are bringing to market a
range of modular hydrogen storage solution based
on metal hydrides.
Brands:
Energy Storage, Hydrogen, Metal Hydrides, Green,
Safe, Compact
Hilliard Booth
- #5145
The HILCO® Division of The Hilliard
Corporation, cost-effectively brings fluid
contamination problems under control. Products
help reduce the cost of new oil purchases,
decrease disposal costs, lessen component wear,
reduce downtime, and curtail environment
contamination. HILCO® has supplied
thousands of liquid fuel filters, coalescers,
and systems to OEM turbine and engine
manufactures to maintain fuel cleanliness to
their specifications. Striving for continuous
improvement in testing of vessel designs,
cartridge configuration, and cartridge media,
Hose Master
- Booth #4607
Hose Master engineers and manufactures high
quality corrugated metal hose and expansion
joint solutions for Utility and Power Generation
industries. Wherever high temperatures, extreme
pressures and vibration are encountered, Hose
Master products are trusted for the most
critical applications including hoses and
expansion joints for steam piping, HRSG
penetration seals, and turbine crossovers.
Hug Engineering
- Booth #5849
Hug produces systems for diesel and gas engines
used in Marine, Power Generation and Mobile
applications. The company provides efficient
solutions and customized concepts for exhaust
gas cleaning.
Brands: SCR,
NOx reduction, oxidation, diesel particulate
filter, DPF, catalysts, emissions control,
emissions after-treatment, low to zero emissions
Kennedy Valve
- Booth #5656
American Made UL Listed FM Approved fire
protection valves, fire hydrants, and
accessories. 24" and down gate valves, as well
as indicator posts and wall posts. We also offer
the industry's only factory installed OS&Y
tamper switch. 12" and down supervised butterfly
valves, and UL-FM check valves.
Brands:
Kennedy Valve, G365 Guardian, K17
KSB
– Booth #4716
KSB SupremeServ provides the power industry pump
service, repairs, spare parts, and engineering
on all brands & types. Our service centers,
strategically located throughout North America,
are ready to serve with
installation and commissioning of your
equipment, maintenance and repair, customized
service concepts, spare parts, or replacement.
Brands: Pump Service, Repair, Commissioning,
Custom parts, Reverse Engineering
Leistritz
- Booth #5408
Leistritz manufactures rotary screw pumps for
fuel oil injection, unloading and transfer
applications, as well as gearbox and bearing
lubrication. In addition, our line of
Re-Engineered pumps can replace obsolete
equipment without piping modifications. Flow
rates up to 10,000 gpm and pressures up to 2200
psi.
Brands: Screw Pumps
Miratech
– Booth #5539
Miratech is a leading provider of
cost-effective, reliable, emission and acoustic
solutions for Natural Gas and Diesel
Reciprocating Engines, and oxidation catalysts
for Gas Turbines. The products are used in Power
Generation, Energy Infrastructure, Industrial,
and Marine applications.
Brands: Screw Pumps
Montrose
- Booth #5565
The premier provider of environmental services
Montrose Environmental Group offers unsurpassed
Air Quality Measurement, Environmental
Laboratory, Engineering and Regulatory
Compliance Services throughout the United States
and abroad. We strive to achieve optimal
environmental performance in a way that
effectively complements our clients’ operations.
Brands: Emissions Testing, EPA Compliance, RATA,
MACT/NESHAP, NAAQS, Engineering
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NEL
– Booth #4129
Nel Hydrogen offers hydrogen gas solutions for
power plants
Nel is a global, dedicated hydrogen company,
delivering optimal solutions to produce, store &
distribute hydrogen for applications ranging
from grid-level support for renewable energy
storage to electric generator cooling in power
plants.
Brands: The Leader in On-site Hydrogen
Generation, HOGEN, PEM
Parker
- Booth #5125
Advanced Motion and Control Technologies and
Systems
As a collaborative partner, we work one-on-one
with you to create cleaner more efficient
energy. Whether for nuclear, coal-fired, gas
turbine, and combined cycle plants…or biomass,
hydroelectric, waste-to-energy, geothermal,
wind, and solar our solutions reduce costs and
optimized performance.
Brands: EGT, Tube Fittings, Veriflo, RACOR,
CleanDIESEL Velcon, Tube Fittings, Seal-Lok
Xtreme, GreenMAX, NitroDry, SensoNODE, HAS,
Intellinder
Reverso Pumps
- Booth #5740
Reliable Diesel Filtration for Reliable Engines
Manufactures Automatic Fuel Polishing Systems
for diesel fuel bulk storage tanks and day
tanks. Featuring Separ Filter 5-stage
filtration, the systems remove 99.9% of water
and particulate from fuel to increase engine
reliability and prevent expensive repairs.
Brands: Reverso, Separ Filter
Victaulic
- Booth #5044
Victaulic is designed to provide full system
solutions to meet the rigorous demands and
challenging environments of the power generation
industry across all plant types and scopes of
work. We are proud to be a part of the planning,
design, and construction of power and energy
facilities throughout the globe.
Brands: Victaulic, pipe fittings, pipe couplings
CO2
Four Principles to Guide Decarbonization
Decisions
COP26 has increased the pressure on public and
private organizations to escalate and accelerate
their sustainability commitments. In this
webinar recording, Bain partners Marc Lino,
Torsten Lichtenau, and Debra McCoy are joined by
Tim Mohin, chief sustainability officer and
executive vice president at Persefoni, in a
webinar to discuss actions companies can take to
manage and mitigate climate change, while still
creating value along the way.
Among the achievements that they found most
encouraging were the strong commitments and
international agreements, such as the more than
100 countries representing the lion’s share of
the world’s forests pledging to halt
deforestation by 2030. Parties agreed to update
2030 targets in 2022 rather than in five years,
and they also closed loopholes around some
legacy, poor-quality carbon credits. (For more,
see “Four
Myths about Carbon Offsets.”)
Some accomplishments were thwarted by disregard,
such as the commitment to reduce methane that
wasn't signed by several key emitters or the
pledge to end investment in new coal power
generation that failed to garner support from
countries representing 70% of the world’s coal
production.
But whatever happens on the policy side, much of
the real work of the climate transition will be
driven by finance and private companies, which
were at the table in a serious way for the first
time.
In the Bain work with large companies that are
acting on their ambitions and starting to reduce
their emissions, four specific principles are
guiding decisions that are making a real
difference.
Make carbon transition a pillar of strategy.
Ambitions to reduce emissions should guide
decisions about where to compete and allocate
resources.
Get more bang from your net-zero buck. Measure
the carbon transition like the rest of the
business and find ways to monetize investments
in carbon reduction.
Embed carbon transition into the fabric of the
business. Price carbon internally, link
compensation incentives to transition goals, and
track greenhouse gas emissions as you would
costs.
Avoid the hourglass effect. Senior managers and
new hires may be enthusiastic supporters, but
the transition needs buy-in from the middle
managers who must implement change successfully.
The webinar can be viewed at
https://www.bain.com/insights/beyond-cop-twenty-six-Implications-for-private-equity-webinar/
Industry Support for Large-Scale Carbon Capture
and Storage Continues to Gain Momentum in
Houston
Three additional companies have announced their
support for exploring the implementation of
large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS)
technology in and around the Houston industrial
area. Air Liquide, BASF and Shell are joining
Calpine, Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil, INEOS, Linde,
LyondellBasell, Marathon Petroleum, NRG Energy,
Phillips 66, and Valero to collectively evaluate
and advance emissions reduction efforts in and
around the Houston industrial area. This
announcement increases the momentum for CCS and
aligns with efforts to reduce emissions around
the world.
The 14 companies are evaluating how to use safe,
proven CCS technology at Houston-area
facilities that provide energy and products for
modern life, including power generation and
advanced manufacturing for plastics, motor fuels
and packaging. In December
2021, the companies held a series of
workshops at the University
of Houston to discuss collaboration and
activation of this important, large-scale
emissions-reduction effort.
Together, these companies and others in the
region could capture and safely store up to 50
million metric tons of CO2 per year
by 2030 and about 100 million metric tons per
year by 2040, helping to significantly reduce
emissions in the Houston region.
These efforts have already gained broad support
in the Houston region,
including from Houston Mayor Sylvester
Turner, the Harris
County Commissioners' Court, the Greater
Houston Partnership, and the Center for Houston's Future.
"Large-scale carbon capture and storage in the Houston region
will be a cornerstone for the world's energy
transition, and these companies' efforts
are crucial toward advancing CCS development to
achieve broad scale commercial impact," said Charles
McConnell, director of University
of Houston's Center for
Carbon Management in Energy and former assistant
secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy. "As
the energy capital of the world, Houston has
the expertise and leadership—including industry,
academia, and policymakers—to realize a low
carbon, reliable and affordable energy future. I
look forward to working alongside these 14
companies to make Houston the global leader in
CCS."
Wide-scale, affordable deployment of CCS in the Houston area will
require the support of industry,
communities, and government. If
appropriate policies and regulations are put in
place, CCS could help the
United States and Houston reach
net-zero goals while generating new jobs and
protecting existing jobs that are important to Houston's economy.
CCS could also promote long-term economic growth
in Southeast Texas and
beyond.
CCS is the process of capturing CO2 from
industrial activities that would otherwise be
released into the atmosphere and injecting it
into deep underground geologic formations for
secure and permanent storage. CO2 from
the Houston industrial area could be stored
in nearby on- and offshore storage sites. An
analysis of U.S Department of Energy estimates
shows the storage capacity along the U.S. Gulf
Coast is large enough to store about 500 billion
metric tons of CO2, which is
equivalent to more than 130 years of industrial
and power generation emissions in the
United States, based on 2018 data.
CCS is one of the few proven technologies that
could enable some industry sectors that are
difficult to decarbonize, such as manufacturing
and heavy industry, to decrease greenhouse gas
emissions. The International Energy Agency
projects that CCS could mitigate up to 15% of
global emissions by 2040, and the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
estimates global decarbonization efforts could
be twice as costly without the technology.
Discussions continue with other companies that
have industrial operations in the Houston
region, potentially increasing the projected
total CO2 that can be captured and
safely stored.
HYDROGEN
Trillions Should be Invested in Long Duration
Energy Storage
The Long Duration Energy Storage Council hired
McKinsey to determine future markets. Here is
the summary of a report which can be
viewed thorough the link provided.
Many LDES technologies currently exist, but they
are at different levels of maturity. Some have
been deployed commercially, some are still at
the pilot phase. Projections show that LDES need
to be scaled up dramatically over the next 20
years to build a cost-optimal net-zero energy
system. For LDES to be cost optimal, costs must
decrease by 60%. However, even greater cost
reductions have already occurred in other clean
technologies like solar and wind.
Between 2022–40, USD 1.5 tr–3.0 tr of total
investment in LDES will be required. The total
investment over this period is comparable to
what is invested in transmission and
distribution networks every 2–4 years. This
investment has the potential to create economic
and environmental benefit. The business cases
for LDES can often be positive if sufficient
mechanisms are in place to monetize the value.
By 2040, LDES need to have scaled up to ~400x
present day levels to 1.5–2.5 TW (85–140 TWh).
10% of all electricity generated would be stored
in LDES at some point. Present-day LDES
deployment is low, but momentum in LDES is
growing exponentially.
This McKinsey report focuses on the relatively
nascent mechanical, thermal, chemical, and
electrochemical storage technologies, instead of
Li-ion batteries, dispatchable hydrogen assets,
and large-scale aboveground pumped storage
hydropower.
Mechanical LDES
The most widespread and mature storage
technology is PSH, a form of mechanical storage
that accounts for 95 percent of the total energy
storage capacity worldwide. New versions of this
established technology are emerging to reduce
its dependence on geographical conditions, For
example, geomechanical pumped hydro, which uses
the same principles as aboveground PSH but with
subsurface water reservoirs. Other emerging
mechanical energy storage solutions include
compressed air energy storage (CAES) and
gravity-based energy storage. The first stores
energy as compressed air in pressure-regulated
structures (either underground or aboveground).
In its adiabatic form, CAES also includes
thermal storage to store the heat that is
generated during compression and reuse it in the
discharge cycle. Gravity-based energy storage is
another promising form of mechanical storage,
which stores energy by lifting mass that is
released when energy is needed. This technology
is in an earlier stage of commercial
development. Lastly, mechanical LDES can also
take the form of liquid CO2, which
can be stored at high pressure and ambient
temperature and then released in a turbine in a
closed loop without emissions. Liquid air energy
storage (LAES) works similarly to CAES by
compressing air but uses electricity to cool and
liquify the medium and store it in cryogenic
storage tanks at low pressure. For this reason,
LAES is sometimes classified as mechanical
storage and sometimes as thermal storage.
Thermal LDES
Thermal energy storage technologies store
electricity or heat in the form of thermal
energy. In the discharge cycle the heat is
transferred to a fluid, which is then used to
power a heat engine and discharge the
electricity back to the system. Depending on the
principle used to store the heat, thermal energy
storage can be classified into sensible heat
(increasing the temperature of a solid or liquid
medium), latent heat (changing the phase of a
material), or thermochemical heat (underpinning
endothermic and exothermic reactions). These
technologies use different mediums to store the
heat such as molten salts, concrete, aluminum
alloy, or rock material in insulated containers.
Likewise, the charging equipment options are
diverse, including resistance heaters, heat
engines, or high temperature heat pumps among
others. The most widespread thermal LDES
technology are molten salts coupled with
concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, however,
this technology is different from other novel
LDES as it presents different characteristics
(e.g. it cannot be widely deployed as it is not
modular, the CSP plant has a large footprint and
is only effective in regions with high solar
radiation). Nonetheless, molten salts can
effectively be used in novel thermal LDES to
store electricity independently of CSP plants.
Thermal LDES technologies can discharge both
electricity and heat, supporting the
decarbonization of the heat sector, which
accounts for around 50 percent of the global
final energy consumption (compared to 20 percent
by the electricity sector in 2019). Of the total
heat consumption, it is estimated that only
around 10 percent is supplied by LDES could
support the decarbonization of this sector
through the provision of zero-emissions high
grade heat to energy-intensive industries—that
rely on fossil fuels and have few
decarbonization alternatives—and other heat
applications (such as district heating
networks).
Chemical LDES
Chemical energy storage systems store
electricity through the creation of chemical
bonds. The two most popular emerging
technologies are based on power-to-gas concepts:
power-to-hydrogen-to-power, and power-to-syngas
(synthetic gas)-to-power. In the first case,
electricity is used to power electrolyzers,
which produce hydrogen molecules that can be
stored in tanks, caverns, or pipelines. The
energy is discharged when the hydrogen is
supplied to a hydrogen turbine or fuel cell. If
the hydrogen is combined with CO2 in
a second step to make methane, the resulting
Net-zero power: Long duration energy storage for
a renewable grid | LDES Council, McKinsey &
Company gas—known as syngas—has similar
properties to natural gas and can be stored and
later burned in conventional power plants.
Similarly, hydrogen can be converted to ammonia
for direct combustion.
Electrochemical LDES
Different batteries of varying chemistries are
emerging to provide long duration flexibility.
Electrochemical flow batteries store electricity
in two chemical solutions that are stored in
external tanks and pushed through a stack of
electrochemical cells, where charge and
discharge processes take place thanks to a
selective membrane. These batteries are suited
for long-duration applications where low
chemical and equipment costs are possible.
Emerging metal air batteries rely on low-cost,
abundant earth metals, water, and air – meaning
they have the potential for high scalability and
low installed system costs. Furthermore, many of
these solutions do not suffer from thermal
runaway, making them safe to install and
operate. Where a hydrogen technology
demonstrates very similar behaviors and cost
profiles to other LDES it has been included
(such as solid oxide fuel cells). There are also
hybrid flow batteries with liquid electrolytes
and a metal anode which combine some of the
properties of conventional flow batteries and
metal-anode systems. Li-ion, hydrogen turbines,
and large-scale aboveground PSH This report
distinguishes between LDES and Li-ion as the
scaling up of costs for a long-duration
flexibility range makes Li-ion uncompetitive for
a long-duration flexibility range.
Hydrogen-based storage and reconversion to power
via turbines (and fuel cells) can serve a role
for long-duration storage but are called out
separately in the report due to dissimilar cost
performance at lower storage durations and the
specific interest that has evolved around
hydrogen in the energy community. Large-scale
aboveground PSH are not included in the
considered technology space as the deployment
benefits and economics of novel LDES
technologies, including novel PSH, are expected
to outcompete these plants and LDES have fewer
geographical limitations.
BIOMASS
Biomass Must Come From Sustainable Sources
UK legislation on biomass sourcing states that
operators must maintain an adequate inventory of
the trees in the area (including data on the
growth of the trees and on the extraction of
wood) to ensure that wood is extracted from the
area at a rate that does not exceed its
long-term capacity to produce wood. This is
designed to ensure that areas where biomass is
sourced from retain their productivity and
ability to continue sequestering carbon.
Ensuring that forestland remains productive and
protected from land-use changes, such as urban
creep, where vegetated land is converted into
urban, concreted spaces, depends on a healthy
market for wood products. Industries such as
construction and furniture offer higher prices
for higher-quality wood. While low-quality,
waste wood, as well as residues from forests and
wood-industry by-products, can be bought and
used to produce biomass pellets.
A report by Forest 2 Market examined the
relationship between demand for wood and
forests’ productivity and ability to sequester
carbon in the US South, where Drax sources about
two-thirds of its biomass.
The report found that increased demand for wood
did not displace forests in the US South.
Instead, it encouraged landowners to invest in
productivity improvements that increased the
amount of wood fiber and therefore carbon
contained in the region’s forests.
A synthesis report, which examines a broad range
of research papers, published in Forest
Ecology and Management in March of 2021,
concluded from existing studies that claims of
large-scale damage to biodiversity from woody
biofuel in the South East US are not supported.
The use of these forest residues as an energy
source was also found to lead to net GHG
greenhouse emissions savings compared to fossil
fuels, according to Forest Research.
Importantly the research shows that climate
risks are not exacerbated because of biomass
sourcing; in fact, the opposite is true
with annual wood growth in the US South
increasing by 112% between 1953 and 2015.
The European Commission’s JRC Science for Policy
literature review and knowledge synthesis report
‘The use of woody biomass for energy production
in the EU’ suggests a win-win forest bioenergy
pathway is possible, that can reduce greenhouse
gas emissions in the short term, while at the
same time not damaging, or even improving, the
condition of forest ecosystems.
However, it also makes clear “lose-lose”
situations is also a possible, in which forest
ecosystems are damaged without providing carbon
emission reductions in policy-relevant
timeframes.
Win-win management practices must benefit
climate change mitigation and have either a
neutral or positive effect on biodiversity. A
win-win future would see the afforestation of
former arable land with diverse and naturally
regenerated forests.
The report also warns of trade-offs between
local biodiversity and mitigating carbon
emissions, or vice versa. These must be
carefully navigated to avoid creating a
lose-lose scenario where biodiversity is damaged
and natural forests are converted into
plantations, while BECCS fails to deliver the
necessary negative emissions.
In a future that will depend on science working
in collaboration with industries to build a net
zero future continued research is key to
ensuring biomass can deliver the win-win
solution of renewable electricity with negative
emissions while supporting healthy forests.
Bain Helps Clients Manage and Report Carbon
Footprint
Bain & Company has a strategic partnership with
and investment in Persefoni, a
leading SaaS platform that helps investors and
enterprises easily calculate, analyze, manage,
and report on their real-time carbon footprints.
This first-of-its-kind partnership will pair
Bain & Company’s expertise in carbon
transitions, as well as its deep understanding
of investors’ priorities, with Persefoni’s
cutting-edge carbon accounting platform to
deliver unprecedented solutions to Bain’s
clients on their net-zero journeys—solutions
that are actionable, trackable, linked to value
and grounded in facts.
With an initial focus on Bain’s highly
influential cadre of private equity and
institutional investor clients—and their
portfolio companies—this partnership will help
Bain’s clients to manage their carbon inventory
with the same rigor and transparency as their
financial metrics.
“Bain & Company is continuously expanding its
suite of services and tools aimed at
accelerating the carbon transition, leveraging
the latest technologies and working alongside
our clients to create a more sustainable,
responsible and profitable future,” said Torsten
Lichtenau, partner, and global head of Bain &
Company’s Carbon Transition Impact Area. “
BUSINESS
Program for ErgonArmor announces changes to
Sales, Marketing and Distribution Program for
Pennguard™ Block Chimney Lining System
ErgonArmor, a division of Ergon Asphalt and
Emulsions Inc., has announced new and sweeping
changes to the global sales, marketing, and
distribution program for its Pennguard
Block Lining System suite of products used
in coal-fired power plant chimney applications.
To better serve the diverse needs of this global
market, ErgonArmor will end its exclusive
distribution go-to-market strategy at the end of
2021. Beginning January 2022, it will offer the
Pennguard Block Lining System direct to
consumers and through select nonexclusive
distributors. This change will enhance Pennguard
Block Lining System sourcing options for
coal-fired power plant projects globally.
ErgonArmor anticipates this factory-direct
distribution model will enhance its market
position. In addition to ready access to the
premier Pennguard brand of cellulated
borosilicate glass block lining technology,
clients will find more flexible service options,
delivery timing and payment terms.
Coal-fired power plants first began using the
Pennguard Block Lining System to protect
chimneys and ducts against corrosive flue gas
condensate in the 1980s. In the years since its
commercial introduction, Pennguard has developed
a globally dominant market share and exceptional
track record of performance that clients have
come to trust. While some nations have
decommissioned coal burners in favor of
alternative energy sources, others will continue
to utilize affordable coal resources in
conjunction with modern clean coal technologies
to fuel economic growth.
“These changes will better position our
Pennguard product line to react to the evolving
coal-fired power plant market. We believe moving
ourselves one step closer to the end user will
be a welcomed change and provide a more
efficient approach to this ever-changing
landscape,” commented Christine Osborne, Vice
President of Sales and Marketing for ErgonArmor.
Lots of Differences Between Stated Policies and
Plans For Net Zero
Sonal Patel, writing in Power, listed the
eight overarching trends gleaned from the
Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental
agency’s annual outlook. She also provided three
IEA scenarios.
Coal and natural gas generation will remain
“cornerstones” of electricity flexibility, but
flexibility profiles are slated to change as
power generation mixes across the world
transform, the IEA suggested. This graphic shows
three IEA scenarios: the Stated Policies
Scenario (STEPS), which explores where energy
systems might go without further policy
intervention; the Announced Pledges Scenario
(APS), which assumes announced policies (as of
October 2021) will be implemented; and the
Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario (NZE).
Editor of Power Sees Lots of Bright Spots on the
Horizon
Last week Aaron Larson, editor of Power,
provided an optimistic view of the future of
power.
“Opportunities are everywhere in the power
industry these days. Not only are wind and solar
energy seeing explosive growth, but also several
other technologies are showing real signs of
promise. Battery energy storage systems and
microgrids have become mainstream grid
components. Advanced nuclear power designs and
hydrogen-based energy schemes have progressed
beyond concepts and into real brick-and-mortar
projects. The worldwide focus on climate change
has developers of carbon capture and storage
(CCS) technologies licking their chops, with
serious deployment of CCS systems almost assured
if the world is to meet goals aligned with the
Paris Agreement.”
Aaron cited a report showing that
the U.S.
will average more than 29 GW of new
solar capacity additions annually through 2026.
However, this is far short of the 80 GW of solar
additions SEIA says are needed annually to reach
President Biden’s 2035 clean energy targets.
To Aaron the most impressive growth is taking
place in the energy storage arena. ACP reported
that 1,283 MW of storage power capacity was
added in the U.S. during the first nine months
of 2021—a 243% increase year over year.
Furthermore, the storage energy capacity
increased by 4,096 MWh, which more than doubled
the capacity available in the U.S. just nine
months earlier.
Optimism for small nuclear plants was supported
by the Ontario Hydro purchase of a GE BWRX-300
SMR
https://www.powermag.com/optimism-is-warranted-in-the-power-industry-in-2022-and-beyond/
The eight trends are shown at
https://www.powermag.com/disorderly-transitions-eight-enduring-global-power-sector-trends/
PowerGen Moved to May Which Allows Time For IIoW
Causation Loops to be Prepared
PowerGen International®,
scheduled to take place on January 26-28, 2022,
has been rescheduled and will now take place
May 23-25, 2022, at the same
location in Dallas.
This postponement gives some time to complete
Industrial Internet of ‘Wisdom Causation Loops
involving energy storage and decarbonization
subjects. They will link exhibitors, speakers,
and attendees. In the past exhibitions, we
have created route maps, but the Causation Loop
takes it beyond educating or problem solving
and into actionable decisions based on Total
cost of ownership (TCO) analyses.
Hydrogen and energy storage are two main topics
at PowerGen. There is overlap in that hydrogen
is a form of storage as well as a fuel with no
resultant CO2 emissions. Here
are some of the TCO issues that speakers will be
addressing.
Hydrogen
·
Do reciprocating engines fueled with hydrogen
for CHP plants have a lower TCO than fuel cells?
·
What is the lowest TCO selection for low NOx
burners which are safe and minimize NOx
formation?
·
Do packaged boilers firing hydrogen have the
LTCO in CHP process steam or electrical power?
·
Can
aeroderivative Gas Turbines demonstrate LTCO
either through complementing Renewable Sources
in hybrid configuration injecting at the same
point of interconnect (POI) or utilizing a
mixture of gas and green hydrogen?
·
What
modifications to piping systems, water systems,
emissions control, monitoring., safety systems,
valves and compressors will be needed to lower
the TCO when cofiring of hydrogen.
Energy Storage
·
What is the maximum duration of storage with
lithium batteries that still provide LTCO?
·
Where is the TCO for Compressed Air Energy
Storage lower than alternatives?
·
What is the TCO for electrochemical storage with
several days capacity?
·
What is the TCO for hydrogen storage
compared to other long duration options?
·
What is the TCO of pumped storage for periods
longer than 12 hours?
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