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Environment Conference to be held February 3 to 5, 2016 in San Diego,
California. The 19th annual conference will host 2,000 delegates, 400 speakers
and 200 exhibits. The VIP rate is $795 a savings of $600 from the onsite cost of
$1,395. Please register online at www.euec.com and select registration type
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Annual Investment in New Coal-fired Power Plants Will be $200 Billion
Despite the movement away from coal in developed countries, the heavy investment
in new coal-fired power generation by developing countries is creating an annual
$170 billion market with some peaks of close to $200 billion over the next five
years. India, Vietnam and Indonesia will be the leading purchasers. However,
there will be some investment in the developed countries who are reducing the
total CO2 footprint from coal. The route they are taking is to build new highly
efficient coal-fired power plants to replace the high CO2 emitting existing
power plants. Japan is a prime example. Dozens of new coal-fired power plants
are underway in Japan.
China is slowing down its investment in new coal-fired power plants but will
continue to be a leading purchaser. Coal-fired power is the key to the smog
reduction program. The electric power provided by these power plants is used in
commercial and residential buildings as a substitute for solid fuels burned on
site which are presently creating much of the smog. The large coal-fired power
plants built recently in China are more efficient than the average U.S.
coal-fired power plant and have all the pollution control equipment.
Most of the new coal-fired boilers will be of the ultra supercritical design.
This requires high temperatures and pressures. International suppliers of pumps,
valves, piping and treatment chemicals benefit from the performance demands and
the need to rely on experienced suppliers. These boiler systems will be
furnished by suppliers from China, Japan and the U.S. as well as some of the
Eastern European countries. Due to the new World Bank limits on funding
coal-fired power plants, the international plant suppliers will be a more
important funding source.
Highly efficient particulate control equipment will be utilized on all the new
systems. Many will also have SO2 and NOx removal devices. The requirements for
mercury reduction have spread beyond the U.S. borders. China also has set
emission standards for mercury. Its Near Zero Emissions (NZE) policy is as
stringent as any policy around the world.
Pulverized coal firing will be most common with circulating fluid bed combustors
being used for some fuels where size reduction is challenging. Ball mills and
other size reduction equipment is typically furnished by the boiler system
supplier.
There are some promising technologies such as oxy-combustion which could achieve
relatively low cost CO2 sequestration. In fact, a boiler firing 20 percent
biomass and 80 percent coal with CO2 sequestration would be greener than wind or
solar. Because there are not any emission to the air and the biomass is
renewable, there would be a net decrease in greenhouse gases for every MW
produced.
Due to the lack of water in many developing countries, dry cooling will be
considered as an alternative to wet or hybrid cooling. However, in warmer
climates, dry cooling is not efficient. Wastewater reuse is also a high priority
not only in arid areas but in all countries. The reason is the increasing
concern about water pollution. With zero liquid discharge and use of municipal
wastewater as a water source, a power plant is reducing water pollution with
every megawatt produced,
More information on the coal-fired power plant market is found at: N043 Fossil
and Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis and Forecast.
Weekly tracking of activities at each coal-fired power plant around the world
except China is found at: 42EI Utility Tracking System.
Tracking of Chinese power plant additions and upgrades is found at: 42EIC
Chinese Utility Plans
Air pollution control activity is analyzed at:
N027 FGD Market and Strategies
N021 World Fabric Filter and Element Market
N031 Air and Water Monitoring: World Market
N018 Electrostatic Precipitator World Market
Water related activity is analyzed in:
N029 Ultrapure Water: World Market
N005 Sedimentation and Centrifugation World Markets
N006 Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets
N020 RO, UF, MF World Market
N024 Cartridge Filters: World Market
Gas Turbine Intake Filter Sales To Exceed $1 Billion By 2021
Sales of gas turbine intake filters will double over the next six years
according to the McIlvaine Company. The high rate of revenue growth will be a
function of not only robust unit growth but double-digit growth in the revenue
per unit.
Gas turbine power generation is increasingly attractive due to the low price of
natural gas, the environmental restrictions on coal-fired power and the ability
for system suppliers to deliver new plants within 24 months. The latest high
performance turbines provide improved efficiency and lower CO2 emissions per
unit of energy produced. However, the rotating equipment is subject to
substantial corrosion and erosion from small particles.
As a result, the industry is moving from lower cost filters to those with HEPA
efficiency. These filters often cost twice that of the lower efficiency filters
and have somewhat shorter lives. This additional cost is more than offset by
lower part replacement and less frequent washing. The specific climactic
conditions vary from the arctic to the desert and from relatively clean air to
air contaminated by hydrocarbons and fine particulate or salt water spray in the
case of turbines on offshore rigs and coastal locations.
There are multiple approaches used to remove the air contaminants. In general
they can be divided into static and pulsed filter systems. In static filter
systems, there is a pre filter which captures most of the dust. It is low in
cost and frequently replaced. The downstream high efficiency filter has a long
life time due to the lower dust concentration to which it is exposed. There is a
significant quantity of microglass media used in the high efficiency filters.
The pulsed filter approach provides filtration of coarse and fine particles in
one device. The filter surface is periodically cleaned with a reverse pulse of
air. Membrane filter media is commonly used with this approach.
The replacement filter market is larger than the new filter market.
NAFTA is the largest regional market with 34 percent of the gas turbine
installed base. Western Europe is the next largest segment but plants are
shutting down there because of the high cost of gas in the region.
McIlvaine offers a customized program for suppliers which include detailed
forecasts as well as information on all the existing and new opportunities. For
more information on this program click on: 59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle
Supplier Program.
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join discussions while sitting at your desk. Hot Topic Hours cater to the end
users as well as suppliers while the Market Updates cater to the suppliers and
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