New Approach Allows Suppliers to Reach 50 percent of the World’s Power Generation Market

Large utilities are expanding through merger and acquisition.  As a result, 100 power generators around the world buy more than 50 percent of the products and services. These operators are expanding into wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and other renewable fuels. They have distributed generation initiatives. Many are making major investments to meet new environmental regulatory requirements. There are thousands of challenging decisions which have to be made.  A new program is creating a unique path for decision makers to combine the hurry-up habits of the IPhone and Facebook with the wisdom of “wise crowd” decisions.  The program for the first utility is now available.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) includes PacifiCorp, NV Energy, Mid-American, BHE Renewables, Northern and Kern River Pipeline. The two pipeline companies transport 7 percent of the natural gas in the U.S.  The power companies operate coal, gas, hydro, solar, geothermal, biomass, wind and other renewables generators.

McIlvaine now has Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and Utility Connect to be used by suppliers as well as BHE personnel.  It has details on every one of the hundreds of power generators within the system. It fulfills the 4 knowledge needs: Alerts, Answers, Analysis and Advancement.  It combines 44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant Decisions Orchard) and 59D Gas Turbine and Reciprocating Engine Decisions with the custom BHE program. This includes interfacing with hundreds of BHE people indirectly through the Alerts, case histories, etc., and directly through large and small webinars. 

The website has constantly updated data on each power generation, energy recovery and gas storage and transmission system operated by BHE. It also has details on all the larger industrial facilities in Iowa and the western states where BHE has electricity delivery.  It includes all the facilities owned by BHE Renewables.  Information on the compressor stations and power generators also includes the air permits with detailed regulatory information.

The coal-fired power plant information includes details on the furnaces, burners, coal size reduction, ID fans, heat recovery steam generators, SCR, particulate control, FGD, wastewater, ash disposal and instrumentation.

The gas turbine data includes details on the gas and steam turbines, inlet air systems, emission control systems, HRSGs and water and wastewater treatment.

The Alerts, webinars and other communication tools provided to suppliers assure an audience at power plants around the world.

For more information on Supplier and Utility Connect. 4S01, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/1185-4s01

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Will Spend $184 Million for Air Filtration and Air Pollution Control Next Year

Berkshire Hathaway has acquired and merged a number of power and gas transmission companies. It has also created BHE Renewables.  The group now known as Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) will spend $184 million on average for air filtration and air pollution control over the next five years.  Because of its distributed generation and certain other activities in the areas where it supplies electricity, it will indirectly influence purchases of as much as $41 million annually from small generators from whom it is buying electricity or with whom it is collaborating. The connection involves EPCs and consultants each of whom are specifying or buying air treatment equipment and reagents for multiple utilities. So, the market potential is much larger than just what BHE buys.  Also, if the system results in successful early adoption of new technologies the impact on air treatment sales will be widespread.

McIlvaine is providing a connection system for suppliers so that the process of decision making can be quicker, less costly, and result in early adoption of newer and better technologies.

Details on the program are shown at:  4S01 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and Utility Connect

New Approach allows Subscribers to Reach the Summit of the Mountain of Information on Coal-fired Boilers

The available information on combustion, flow control, treatment and environmental compliance for coal-fired power plants is doubling every few years.  Finding the most current and relevant information is now more challenging than climbing Mt. Everest.

The four knowledge needs are Alerts, Answers, Analysis, and Advancement.  These needs are served in a number of unique ways in McIlvaine’s PPAQD Coal-fired Power Plant Decisions.  The system is free of charge to any power plant in the world.  This wide reach makes it very important to suppliers who add considerable value with their input.

Alerts:  The service includes six alerts and newsletters.

Answers:  The intelligence system includes thousands of pages of papers, articles and power point presentations.  The coverage is international. Many developments in one country are not known in other countries.  A system used by power plant owners and suppliers in all countries assures better information exchange.

Analysis:  There are regularly scheduled webinars.  Hundreds of hours of recorded webinars can be immediately retrieved.  A number of LinkedIn discussion groups have been created. They include individual air pollution control technologies such as fabric filtration and dry scrubbing.  There are separate groups covering each component e.g. valve, instrumentation and groups organized around processes such as coal combustion residues and wastewater treatment.

The webinars provide ways to aggregate and analyze the data being added in the LinkedIn discussion groups.  The intelligence system provides the foundation for discussion group participants.

One of the primary goals is to make it easier for power plants to make total cost of ownership analyses at reasonable cost.  The system includes white papers and identifies experts who can make contributions.

Advancement:  The recorded webinars and the intelligence system are very valuable as training tools. They can be utilized for basic training or keeping the most senior people current with new developments.

For more information, click on:  44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant Decisions Orchard)

Market for Fabric Filter Systems Will Exceed $9 Billion Next Year

Fabric filters also known as baghouses capture dust from exhaust stacks.  The basic system includes the collector, a bag cleaning system and other auxiliaries.  Sales of these systems worldwide in 2017 will exceed $9.2 billion.  This is the latest forecast in McIlvaine’sN021 World Fabric Filter and Element Market.

The largest market will be in East Asia with NAFTA a distant second. The products can be segmented into high performance and general performance.  There is a very large market for standard collectors such as furnished by AAF and Donaldson.  These general performance filters handle ambient temperature exhausts from sources such as woodworking and welding.  High performance filters are found in hot gas applications and are generally custom engineered.

The cement and other stone applications represent the largest market segment. Power plants are now in second place.  In the past precipitators were always selected for this application but recently fabric filters have gained market share.  This is due to their higher efficiency.

For more information on N021 World Fabric Filter and Element Market, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/110-n021

Market for Fabric Filter Resins Adhesives, Fibers, Coatings and Binders to Surge to more than $1 Billion by 2023

A switch from precipitators to fabric filters for the capture of dust from coal-fired boilers will boost sales of media and other components purchased by filter element suppliers to $2,250 million in 2023.  The resins, adhesives, fibers, coatings and binders purchased by media suppliers will generate revenues of $1,125 million.  This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in World Fabric Filter & Elements Market.

The forecasts for components have been derived from the purchases at each level.  The filter element supplier purchases are calculated as a percentage of revenue.  The same approach is used in calculating the resins and other items purchased by the media manufacturers.

* Level 2:  media, end caps, spacers, adhesives,

**Level 1:  resins, adhesives, fibers, coatings, binders

If all the coal-fired boilers in the world switched to fabric filters, the market for media, resins, etc. would double, much of the resin growth will be in PPS.

One recent market report emphasized that automotive growth would drive global polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) market demand from 80,000 tons in 2014 to 140,000 tons by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 7.3 percent from 2015 to 2022. This would result in revenue of $1.6 billion in 2022. This does not take into account the surge in coal-fired power plant use which would be hundreds of millions of dollars.  Several years ago, Lumena projected a Chinese market for PPS for hot gas applications at 50,000 tons per year. This assumed a substantial number of Chinese coal-fired power plants switched to fabric filtration. This has not yet happened.

Instead of starting with resins and media production and analyzing the growth in each industry, it is desirable to start with the end users and determine their demand requirements in the future.  McIlvaine is pursuing this approach in all its filtration market reports.

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Here are Some Headlines from the Utility E-Alert – November 18, 2016

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1299 – November 18, 2016

COAL – US

• Duke Energy posts Coal Ash Basin closure Plans

COAL – WORLD

• Uniper operates Five Thermal Power Plants in Russia
• Thar Coal Project enters Construction Phase

The 41F Utility E-Alert is issued weekly and covers the coal-fired projects, regulations and other information important to the suppliers. It is $950/yr. but is included in the $3020 42EI Utility Tracking System which has data on every plant and project plus networking directories and many other features.

Bob McIlvaine
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