Air Filter Sales Will Exceed $2.5 Billion in the Americas Next Year
Sales of air filters for purifying ambient and indoor air will exceed $2.5 billion in the Americas next year. This is the latest forecast in Air Filtration and Purification World Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The U.S. will be the largest purchaser with sales exceeding all the other countries in North and South America combined. However, the growth rate in Brazil and Mexico is exceeding that of the U.S.
Air Filter Revenues ($ Millions)
Industry 2015
Total 2,566
Bioclean 166
Commercial 625
Electronics 115
Metals 244
Other Industries 499
Power 179
Residential 738
The biggest applications are residential and commercial buildings. Sales for these applications will exceed $1.3 billion. In the power industry, the big use is for filtration of the inlet air for gas turbines. These turbines are used for electricity generation and for combined steam and power in the oil and gas and other industries. The advantages of using highly efficient HEPA filters have been proven. As a result, the industry is slowly moving toward these more expensive filters for turbine intakes. This will create a double-digit revenue growth over the next few years.
Bioclean applications include hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. The hospital market is relatively small compared to its potential. A greater use of highly efficient filtration systems would substantially reduce transmission of disease among patients and staff.
Many industrial plants incur substantial filter costs because they have a very large intake of air. The reason is that they are discharging large quantities of air through dust collectors. This loss must be replaced by ambient air. Plants which have welding, woodworking, or machining operations are in this category.
Another application is the use of air filters following dust collectors. This combination is seen where the plant wants to return air for reuse in the plant. The air needs to be cleaner than achieved with the dust collector. Therefore, a HEPA filter is inserted in the recirculation duct.
For more information on Air Filtration and Purification World Market, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/108-n022
World Power Generation Projects
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

FUEL: Oil

Startup Date Location Fuel Comment Project Title
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Chapainawabganj power plant-Bangladesh Power Development Board
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Ghorasal peaking power plant
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Dohar power plant
Unknown Bangladesh Madanganj-Summit Power
Unknown Bangladesh Barisal power plant-Summit Industrial
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Sedpur power project
Unknown Kenya Rabai power plant-Kenya Power and Lighting Co.
Unknown Nigeria low pour fuel oil Kaduna State power project
Unknown Panama heavy fuel oil, 3% S Miraflores expansion
Unknown Saudi Arabia Shaybah expansion-Saudi Aramco
Unknown Saudi Arabia heavy fuel, light crude as backup Yanbu power plant
Unknown Sudan Khartoum North III-National Electricity Corp.
Unknown Uganda heavy fuel Tororo power plant-Albatross Energy
Unknown Venezuela Termozulia III combined cycle
Online Ghana diesel Tema region cogeneration plant
Online Kenya diesel Nairobi diesel plant
Online MA Waters River GT 2-Peabody Municipal Light
Online NC Buxton 1-5-North Carolina Elec. Mem. Corp.
Online NJ Sherman CT 1-Atlantic City Electric
Online Saudi Arabia Shuquaiq
Online Taiwan Distillate Oil and then natural gas NanPu-Taiwan Power
On hold Pakistan Kot Addu expansion-Kot Addu Power Co. (KAPCO)
Cancelled CA South Bay Unit 3-San Diego Gas & Electric
Cancelled IL Elwood CFB-Indeck Energy
Cancelled NC Woodfin peaking plant-Progress Energy
Cancelled NV Allen GT2-Nevada Power
Cancelled South Africa diesel Port Elizabeth combined cycle plant-IPSA Group
2017 Saudi Arabia Jeddah South supercritical power plant-Saudi Electricity Co.
2016 Lebanon heavy and light fuel oil Deir Ammar CCGT
2016 Saudi Arabia Jazan (Jizan) IGCC power plant-Saudi Aramco
2016 South Africa diesel Avon peaking plant-GDF Suez
2015 Estonia shale Narva oil shale CFB power plants-Eesti Energia
2015 Israel Alon Tavor CCGT Units 5 & 6-Israel Electric
2015 Niger diesel Goroubanda diesel power plant
2015 Saudi Arabia crude Ras Azzour (Al-Khair) desalination/combined cycle
2015 Saudi Arabia Riyadh PP10-Saudi Electricity Co.
2015 South Africa diesel Coega peaking plant (Dedisa)-GDF Suez
2015 UK distillate Fawley peaking addition-RWE Power
2015 Vietnam O Mon 2 power plant-Can Tho Thermal Power Co.
2014 Bangladesh Meghnaghat 2-Bangladesh Power Dev. Board
2014 Israel Haifa CCGT Units 3 & 4-Israel Electric
2014 Jordan heavy fuel oil, distillate IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant-AES Corp.
2014 Jordan heavy and light fuel oil Al Manakher power plant-Amman Asia Electric Power
2013 Ghana light crude Aboadze T3 combined cycle power plant
2013 Saudi Arabia crude Rabigh 5 (1,2) expansion-ACWA/Kepco
2012 Bangladesh PowerPacMutiara Jamalpur power plant
2012 Bangladesh Kodda-BPDB-RPCL Powergen
2012 Ghana light crude Ghana combined cycle power plant
2012 Kenya Kipevu III (Mombasa)-Kenya Electricity Generating Co.
2012 Saudi Arabia fuel Marafiq 5,6--Yanbu Industrial Complex power plant
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.
For more information on World Power Generation Projects, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/28-energy/486-40ai
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