Fabric Filter and Precipitator Knowledge Systems included in Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
The Fabric Filter Newsletter, Precipitator Newsletter, webinars and case histories are all included in 44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant Decisions Orchard). The core information is on power plants but cement kilns, furnaces and other applications for particulate control are included. The hot gas decision guide and another on dry scrubbers are unique tools as well.
PRECIP NEWSLETTER HEADLINES
May 2015
MARKETS

• Air Pollution Markets Shifting Toward Asia
• Power Plants Need to Think Outside the Box in Dealing with Obsolescence
• HCl Scrubbing and Rare Earth Recovery from Coal-Fired Power Plants and Gasifiers are the Perfect Marriage
COAL-FIRED BOILERS

• TPCIL Starts Commercial Operations of Krishnapatnam Power Plant
• Vattenfall Takes First Moorburg Coal-fired Power Plant Block Online
• Mitsubishi-Larsen & Tubro Joint Venture to Deliver Supercritical-pressure Coal-fired Boilers to Tanda Power Plant
• Marubeni, Alstom Win $1Billion Coal-fired Power Project in Thailand
• Alstom Vows to Bring State-of-Art Technology to Krabi Power Plant Bid
• We Energies Will Hold On to Upper Peninsula Coal-fired Power Plant
• Martin Drake Coal-fired Power Plant Resumes Operations after Fire last Year
• Orascom, IPIC to Build 3,000-MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Egypt
• Japan to Develop Coal-fired Power Plant in Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia
• NTPC Plans Expansion of Parawada Coal-fired Power Plant
• Long Queue to Construct 1320-MW Coal-fired Rampal Power Plant
• Alstom to Build Ultra-Supercritical Lignite-Fired Power Plant in Asia
• ABB Wins Power Plant Automation Order in South Africa
• Longannet Coal-fired Power Station to Close Next Year
• Beijing, China Closing Four Major Coal-fired Power Plants Next Year
• EthosEnergy to Modernize Three Units at Kozienice Power Station

COMPANY NEWS

• Fuel Tech Reports 2014 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results
• Order Bookings and Backlog for Hamon at New Historically High Level
• Clyde Bergemann Power Group Reports on Nova Scotia Air Pollution Control Project
• Fuel Tech Awarded Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $4.8 Million
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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES
July 3, 2015
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(Listed by most current date)
PA DEP’s New Data Reveals Increase in Emissions from Natural Gas Drilling Operations as Activity Increases - Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Air Products and ACWA Holding Win Saudi Aramco Contract for World's Largest Industrial Gas Complex - Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Enable Midstream Completes Bradley Processing Plant
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Enable Midstream Announces Completion of Bakken Crude Oil Gathering System
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Technip Wins Subsea Contract on Triton FPSO
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Erickson Inc Wins Mexico Pipeline Construction Contract
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
North Dakota Legislature OKs State-run Rail Safety Program
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Alberta Lifts Levy on Carbon Output, Ups Target for Cuts
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Scientists Say Tar Sands Development and Limiting Climate Change Are ‘Incompatible’
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Kearl Expansion Project Starts Production Ahead of Schedule
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Forecast Calls for 'muted' growth in Oilsands Production
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Oil-Sands Megaproject Era Wanes as Suncor to Imperial Scale Down
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Reducing Emissions should be the Goal as Canada Rethinks the Oil Sands Sector
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ConocoPhillips Achieves First Steam at Surmont 2
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Ewart: NDP must Move Carefully on Oilsands Upgrading
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Southern Pacific Resource to “Hibernate” The STP-McKay Oilsands Project by July 31
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Federal Regulator Urged to Suspend TransCanada Corp’s Energy East Pipeline
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Shell Pushes Carmon Creek Oil Sands Project to 2019
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Cash-strapped Oilsands Junior SilverWillow Returns 3 Leases to Province
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd Posts Loss
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Natural Advances Planned Horizon Oil Sands Plant Maintenance to June
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Cold Lake Project Expansion Starts Production on Schedule
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Gibson Energy to Build 900,000 barrels of Crude Storage in Alberta
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
TransCanada Expects B.C. Regulatory Decisions on Two Pipeline Projects in Q2
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Aecon Awarded $109 Mln Contract for Work on Alberta, Sturgeon Refinery Project
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
CNOOC's Nexen Schedules Work on Long Lake Oil Sands Upgrader
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
CNOOC Ltd's Canadian unit, Nexen Energy, said on April 23 it plans a 5-week maintenance shutdown of its 35,000 barrel per day Long Lake oil sands upgrader beginning on June 1.
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Oil-sands Crude Could Come to California
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
MCW Energy-Utah’s Oil Sands Go Green
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Fluor Secures EPFC Tank Farm Contract in Athabasca Oil Sands
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Major Oilsands Producers Focusing on Costs
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
Egypt Signs $300 Mln Deal with UOP to Produce High-Octane Benzene
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Mexichem Plans $800 Mln Investments in 2015, New Factories
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Constructing a Facility Siting Plan and the Critical Safety Components
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Shell Acquires Land for Proposed Appalachia Ethane Cracker
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
Staffing the 'Plastics Manufacturing Renaissance'
Revision Date: 6/18/2015
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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES
June 2015
AMERICAS

• EPA Regulation Rolls Backs Air Pollution Exemptions for Industry

Chemicals
• Evonik Starts Basic Engineering Work for New Precipitated Silica Production Plant in U.S.
• Borealis and Agrifos to Set Up Ammonia Plant in Texas
• PeroxyChem Breaks Ground On Hydrogen Peroxide Purification Plant in NY

Iron & Steel/ Metalworking
• Dearborn Steel Plant to Pay $1.35M Fine to Settle Alleged Violations

Mining
• K+S on Track to Begin Producing Potash from Legacy Mine Next Year
• Long Canyon Gold Mine, Nevada, Starts Construction

Pulp and Paper
• Fibria Invests $2.5 Billion in Três Lagoas Pulp Line, Brazil

Iron/ Steel/ Metalworking
• Alcoa to get $259 million DOE Loan to Upgrade Tennessee Plant
• Thyssenkrupp Opens Steering Components Plant in Mexico; See Strong Growth in NA

Other Industries
• Duke Energy Faces Record Fine over Coal Ash Pollution
NWI Ready to Break Ground on New Center
ASIA
Chemical
• AkzoNobel to build €30 million Performance Coatings Facility in Thailand
• Selena Gets EBRD Loan to Expand Construction Chemical Business in Kazakhstan
• Hexcel Launches Site for New Carbon Fiber Plant in France; Announces Capacity
Expansions at Weaving and Prepreg Facilities

Mining
• Rio Tinto Finalizes Deal with Mongolia for $5.4bn Oyu Tolgoi Mine Expansion

EMEA

Chemical
• Mexichem’s VESTOLIT Subsidiary to Increase Specialty PVC Capacity in German Plant
• Evonik Doubles Methacrylic Anhydride Capacity in Germany
• Sasol Performance Chemicals Expands Catalyst Carrier Production Capacity
• Jacobs Awarded Four-Year EPCM Contract by Sadara

Mining
• Amec Foster Wheeler Awarded New Çőpler Gold Mine Contract in Turkey
• Norilsk Nickel Secures $1bn Credit from VTB for Bystrinsky Project in Siberia
• South Africa Grants New Mining Right to Coal of Africa for Makhado Project
• True Gold Restarts Burkina Faso Project Construction in Africa
• Kenya Awards Two Coal Blocks, Plans Power Plant

Other Industries
• AstraZeneca to build $285 million Biologics Plant in Sweden
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SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY UPDATE
June 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
InVisage Expands with New Taiwan Factory
TI's Sugar Land, Texas Facility Awarded LEED® Gold Certification
Samsung to put 10nm Chips into Mass Production by End of 2016
Transphorm and ON Semiconductor Start of Production of GaN Power Devices
CHEMICAL UPDATE
APRIL 2015
AMERICAS
BASF Continues to Evaluate Natural Gas-Based Investment on U.S. Gulf Coast
Prayon to Build Food Grade Sodium Hexametaphosphate (SHMP) Plant in Georgia
Yara and BASF to Build Ammonia Plant in Freeport, Texas
Praxair Gulf Coast Expansion to Serve Freeport, Texas, and Supply New Yara/ BASF Ammonia Project
GEO Opens New Polyaluminum Chloride Facility in Texas
Solvay to Expand Peroxides Production to Serve Growing North American Markets
EaglePicher Breaks Ground on Lithium Ion Center of Excellence
Airgas to Build New Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Tuscaloosa, AL
Linde starts up new air separation unit in Texas
LyondellBasell to Expand Production Capacity of Tri-ethylene Glycol in Texas Plant
ASIA
Chiye Organic Silicon Material (Shanghai) Invests US1.6 Million on Production Plant
Shin-Etsu to Expand Silicone Production in Thailand; Plans US Technical Center
Technip Awarded Contract for Qingdao 500 KTA Ethylbenzene Styrene Monomer Plant
AkzoNobel Performance Coatings Adds Capacity in Indonesia
Fluor Awarded Engineering Contract for New Chinese Polysilicon Plant
EUEA
Kuraray Boosts Production Capacity for Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol in Belgium
Styrolution Opens SBC Pilot Plant
PPG Plans Capacity Expansion for Precipitated Silica at Netherlands Site
Solvay Building Hydrogen Peroxide Grade Production Plant in Netherlands
A. Schulman to Establish Masterbatch Production Plant in Turkey
Technip Awarded Substantial Contract for New Fertilizer Unit in Slovak Republic
Air Liquide to Build, Own and Operate World’s Largest Oxygen Production Unit for Sasol in South Africa
Grupa Azoty Announces Historical $450m Investment in New PDH Plant in Poland
MERGERS/ ACQUISITIONS
Solvay to Acquire Alkoxylation Plant in the Netherlands
A. Schulman to Acquire Citadel
Germany's Evonik to Acquire Monarch Catalyst
Polypore Sells Energy Storage Segment for $2.2B to Asahi Kasei, Separations Media Segment to 3M for $1B
PULP MILLS UPDATE
May 2015
COMPANY NEWS
Eastman Cyphrex reinvents paper performance
Valmet Launches Calendering Technology for Board and Paper Machines
GE, Kemira Form Water Technology Alliance to Serve Pulp and Paper Sector
EXPANSIONS/ UPGRADES/ NEW PROJECTS
AMERICAS
Irving Pulp & Paper Invests over $640,000 in Saint John, NB Pulp Mill Modernization
Northern Pulp to Install Electrostatic Precipitator at Nova Scotia Mill
Andritz to Rebuild Paper Machine at Suzano Mill, Brazil
Russia’s Sveza Set to Start Construction of 1.2 Million-Tonne/Yr Kraft Pulp Mill in 2017
ASIA
China’s Vinda to Build Three Tissue PMs in 2015
China’s Hengan Starts up New 60,000-tonne/yr Tissue PM in Hunan Province
EUEA
Metsä Fibre to Build Next-Generation Bioproduct Mill in Äänekoski, Finland
Andritz to Supply Metsä Fibre's New Äänekoski Bioproduct Pulp Mill in Finland
BillerudKorsnäs Upgrades its 260,000-tonne/yr SC Fluting PM at Gruvön
Finland’s Kotkamills Upgrades PM 2 To Packaging Board
PMT Italia to Supply Film Size Press to Pehlivanoğlu Kağit's PM 1 in Turkey
UK's TRM Packaging Installs New £1 Million Pallet Press Line
Valmet Receives Order from Holmen for Softwood Line Rebuild at Iggesund Mill
Sappi to Invest in New Nanocellulose Pilot Plant in the Netherlands
Sappi Expands Alfeld Competence Centre with New Paper Lab
Eska Graphic Board Signs Contract for Construction of Reject Gasifier
Valmet to Rebuild Softwood Pulp Line at Iggesund Mill
Sofidel Starts New Wastewater Treatment Plant at Its Delicarta Tissue Mill in Italy
Mondi to Raise Pulp, Kraftliner Production at Swiecie mill in Poland
ACQUISITIONS/ DIVESTURES
OpenGate Capital to Sell Kotkamills to Finnish Private Equity Firm MB Funds
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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES
Revision Date: 5/1/2015


Project Title First Entry Date Location Startup date
Thilaya Power Plant-Reliance Power 5/1/2015 India Unknown
Ngayokekaung Township power plant 5/1/2015 Myanmar Unknown
Barangay Lamao (Limay) -SMC Global Power 1/1/2014 Philippines 2020
Lamu power plant-Centum Investment, Gulf Energy 10/1/2013 Kenya 2017
Kyauk Phyu Township power plant-Ministry of Electricity 5/1/2012 Myanmar Unknown
Goindwal supercritical expansion-GVK Group 8/1/2010 India 2014
Hanhikivi 1 (Pyhajoki) --Fennovoima nuclear power project 5/1/2010 Finland 2024
Tilaiya ultra mega power project-Central Electricity Authority 5/1/2008 India Cancelled
Bellary 3 (Yaramaras) supercritical expansion-Karnataka Power Corp. 9/1/2007 India 2015
Dabaa nuclear power plant 6/1/2007 Egypt Unknown
Newport (Fermi 3) nuclear power plant-DTE Energy 6/1/2007 MI Unknown
Watts Bar 2 nuclear power plant-TVA 6/1/2007 TN 2015
Mong Duong 2-AES 10/1/2005 Vietnam 2017
Mong Duong 1 CFB power plant-Electricity of Vietnam 10/1/2005 Vietnam 2015
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