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Due to substantial Chinese investment plus a bubble in U.S. spending, the flue gas desufurization (FGD) market will increase 49 percent between 2013 and 2015. FGD investment in 2015 will be just under $4.3 billion. This is the latest forecast in FGD Markets and Strategies published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Subject	2013	2014	2015
Total	3,095	3,548	4,292
Dry Lime	275	323	394
Other	90	105	128
Wet Calcium	2,730	3,120	3,770

In the last five years, the two markets accounting for most of the FGD investment have been the U.S. and China. The Chinese market remains strong, but is below its peak year. The U.S. market is much smaller now than in 2010. It will rebound somewhat over the next two years. This is due to the new air toxic laws.

The new toxic pollutant regulations in the U.S. require removal of HCl. Scrubbers which remove HCl also remove SO₂. As a result, EPA says the corollary reduction of the SO₂ will be one of the biggest health benefits of the new regulations.

The larger and newer power plants in the U.S. already have scrubbers. So the new regulation primarily involves the older and smaller power plants. Many of these power plants are planning on taking a route with high operating costs and low capital costs. The reason is that remaining life of these power plants is in question. The preferred option is to avoid the capital cost of a scrubber by injecting lime or sodium into the duct prior to the precipitator. This is called dry sorbent injection (DSI).

There are two problems with this approach. The annual sorbent cost can be prohibitive. The efficiency may not be high enough to meet the requirements when high chlorine fuels are burned.

Since necessity is the motherhood of invention, there have been some new developments to make this approach more cost effective. New high efficiency lime sorbents have been developed. So, in most cases, dry injection followed by a precipitator will provide the required efficiency.

Another approach is the recovery and reuse of sodium sorbents in a process where calcium sulfate is the waste product. This appears to offer both the high efficiency needed and the low annual sorbent cost.

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.

This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database


Project Title	First Entry Date	Location	Startup date
Ugljevik addition	10/1/2013	Bosnia	2016
Strathcona county power plan-Atco Power	10/1/2013	Canada	2017
Faridabad power plant	10/1/2013	India	Unknown
Nasiriya power plant	10/1/2013	Iraq	Unknown
Mombasa power plant	10/1/2013	Kenya	2017
Lamu power plant	10/1/2013	Kenya	2017
Muhlenberg power plant-Louisville Gas & Electric, Kentucky Utilities	10/1/2013	KY	2018
Seoul 1,2 underground combined cycle power plant-POSCO	10/1/2013	South Korea	2016
Pinecrest Energy Center	10/1/2013	TX	Unknown
Cirebon expansion	7/1/2013	Indonesia	2018
Guadalupe peaking expansion-Guadalupe Power Partners	7/1/2013	TX	2015
Genesee gas turbine power plant-Capital Power	5/1/2013	Canada	Unknown
Yangon combined cycle-Busan Korea Biotech., Hyundai, Hana Daetoo Securities	11/1/2012	Myanmar	2014
Great Island combined cycle-SSE	11/1/2012	UK	2014
Footprint Power power plant at Salem Harbor site	9/1/2012	MA	2016
Ncondezi Coal (Tete) power plant	6/1/2012	Mozambique	2017
Ahlone (Yangon) combined cycle power plant	6/1/2012	Myanmar	2015
Kyauktan power plant-Min. Electric Power, Orange Powergen, Global Advis	5/1/2012	Myanmar	Unknown
Knottingley combined cycle plant	4/1/2012	UK	2018
Barisal power plant-Summit Industrial	3/1/2012	Bangladesh	Unknown
Hess Newark power plant	3/1/2011	NJ	2016
Old Bridge Clean Energy Center (combined cycle)-NRG (NJ Power Development)	3/1/2011	NJ	Cancelled
Woodbridge power plant-CPV Shore	3/1/2011	NJ	2016
Davao City CFB power plant-Aboitiz Power/SMC Global Power	9/1/2010	Philippines	2015
Madanganj-Summit Power	5/1/2010	Bangladesh	Unknown
Jamshoro supercritical -Water and Power Development Authority	5/1/2010	Pakistan	2016
Nellore district power plant-Kineta Power Pvt.	4/1/2010	India	Unknown
Batang power plant-PT Adaro Energy, J-Power, and Itochu	4/1/2010	Indonesia	2017
Yamunanagar supercritical addition-Haryana Power Generation	11/1/2009	India	Unknown
Plomin 3 power plant	6/1/2008	Croatia	2017