Issues and Options for Intake Air Filters for Gas Turbines Need To Be Pursued
We have had valuable webinars and a live session in Charlotte to flesh out all the issues and options for inlet air treatment for gas turbines. We now have to keep expanding and clarifying the Route Map and Summary and post case histories, white papers, etc. into 59D Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions. Keep in mind that this 59D service is provided free of charge to gas turbine owners around the world. It is being used not just for information but for action. At the Charlotte meeting, an engineer who is tasked with upgrading air inlets for 50 turbines, stated how useful the service was. This service is only $1,600/yr. and includes all the webinars, database and weekly Alerts. It covers, fibers, media, components, filters and all the different arrangements.
AIR FILTRATION MARKET UPDATE
JUNE 2015
INDUSTRY
AFS Call for Fall Conference Abstracts
NWI Ready to Break Ground on New Center
CONSTRUCTION
U.S. Housing Starts Jump to Seven-Year High In April
COMPANY NEWS
Danaher to Acquire Pall Corporation for $127.20 per Share, or $13.8 Billion
Danaher Announces Intention to Separate Into Two Independent, Publicly Traded Companies
H&V Adds AGM Technology at East Walpole Facility
AT&T Selects UAF as Exclusive Supplier for Network Air Filters
Blueair Enters India with Its Range of Air Purifiers
Malaysia's MayAir Goes Public on LSE
Camfil Air Filters Help Bottled Water Producer Saves $43,000 a Year
FINANCIALS
Ahlstrom Interim Report: Clear Improvement in Operating Profit
NEW PRODUCTS
Norafin Introduces New Filtration Product at Techtextil
Clarcor Industrial Air Launches New UAS® Smog-Hog® MSH-11
SOMS Technologies Expands microGreen Extended Performance Filter Line
Air Bubble Shield for Dangerous Smog to be tested in Beijing
Many projects, mergers and acquisitions are detailed in monthly updates in the Market Report’s Chapters under Industry Analysis.
AEROSPACE
FOOD
FLAT PANEL
METALWORKING
OTHER ELECTRONICS
PHARMACEUTICAL
POWER
PULP MILLS
SEMICONDUCTOR
TRANSPORTATION
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GDP UPDATE
July 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMERICAS

• United States
• Canada
ASIA

• China
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

• Morocco
• Turkey
• Romania
• United Kingdom
AMERICAS
United States
Real gross domestic product (GDP) edged down 0.2% at an annual rate in the first quarter of 2015, according to the third estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This report reflects an upward revision of 0.5 percentage point to overall GDP growth. The slower first quarter follows a solid increase of 3.6% at an annual rate during the second half of 2014. Over the past four quarters, GDP rose 2.9%. First-quarter growth was likely affected by a number of transitory factors including unusually severe weather, the West Coast ports dispute, and various measurement issues. A decline in net exports was another important contributor to weak GDP growth. Indeed, net exports subtracted nearly 2 full percentage points from quarterly GDP growth. Furthermore, structures investment subtracted about 0.6 percentage point from GDP, reflecting reduced oil drilling in the wake of last year’s decline in oil prices. Despite the decrease in GDP, real gross domestic income—an alternate measure of economic output—increased 1.9% at an annual rate in the first quarter.
The upward revision to first-quarter GDP was spread across many components of economic output. Personal consumption expenditures contributed 0.2 percentage point to the upward revision with improvements in estimates of both goods and services consumption. Private investment contributed another 0.3 percentage point with a mix of small upward revisions to structures investment, intellectual property investment, inventories, and residential investment. State and local government investment contributed the remaining 0.1 percentage point to the upward revision. Exports and imports saw offsetting revisions, leaving net exports essentially unrevised on balance. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
ASIA
Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong has downgraded its estimate for the city's economic growth to 2% in the second quarter of this year from 2.4% previously because of poor external demand and economic turmoil overseas.
The Apec studies program of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy at the university also blamed the city's possible slower growth on the long-lasting effects of a stronger US dollar, to which the Hong Kong dollar is pegged.
With the uncertainty of mainland China's slowdown, the delayed resolution of Greece's debt crisis and the uncertain timing of a much talked about rise in interest rates in the United States, Hong Kong's economy is expected to grow moderately this year, the university said.
It predicted economic growth would taper off further to 1.7% in the three months to September 30, from the same period last year.
For the full year, it expected the city's real gross domestic product to grow 2%- below the 2.5% for last year but within the government's prediction of a 1 to 3% rise. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
United Kingdom
The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has revised downwards its forecast of UK gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2015 to 2.4%.
This is slightly lower than the OBR's previous forecast, made in March, of 2.5% GDP growth in 2015. Chancellor George Osborne blamed lower forecasts on slower global growth, in his Budget statement.
The OBR's forecast for 2016 was unchanged at 2.3%.
'The UK is growing faster than any other advanced economy,' he said, in the first wholly Conservative Budget since 1996.
He also said that current budget deficit as a percentage of GDP is expected to be reduced to 3.7% this year and 2.2% in 2016/17. It was 10.2% of national income in 2010.
'Britain has turned the corner and left the age of irresponsibility behind,' he said.
He predicted that a current budget deficit surplus would be reached by 2019/20. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
A complete analysis of GDP and monthly updates for individual countries are included as part of Air Filtration and Purification World Markets.
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World Power Generation Projects
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.
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.
FUEL: Biomass
Startup Date Location Fuel Comment Project Title
Unknown CA orchard waste Modesto Irrigation District biomass power plant
Unknown Canada NewPage mill cogen power plant-Nova Scotia Power/NewPage Port Hawkesbury
Unknown FL Port St. Joe Renewable Energy Center IGCC
Unknown GA wood Ben Hill biomass power plant-Fitzgerald Renewable Energy
Unknown SC wood John Matthews Industrial Park biomass power plant-Tri-County Electric Coop.
Unknown South Korea Dangjin 4 CFB power plant-GS Group
Unknown UK Heron Renewable Energy Plant-Drax/Siemens Project Ventures
Unknown UK Teesport (Tees) Renewable Energy Plant-MGT Power Ltd.
Unknown UK Avonmouth biomass project-Helius Energy
Unknown UK Port of Southampton biomass-fired power plant-Helius Energy
Unknown UK Anglesey Aluminum (Holyhead) wood-firing power plant
On hold UK Stallingborough biomass power plant-RWE
Cancelled WI wood waste Bay Front biomass IGCC conversion-Xcel Energy
2017 Denmark wood chips Skaerbaek biomass cogeneration plant 2 units-Dong Energy
2017 India Vemagiri expansion-GMR
2017 UK wood chip, timber Blyth (North) power plant-British Renewable Energy Systems
2017 UK Grangemouth cogeneration plant
2017 UK wood waste Margam biomass power plant
2015 GA Heard County biomass power plant-Rollcast Energy
2015 OR Klamath Falls II-Klamath Generation
2015 Sweden Vartaverket CFB combined heat and power plant-Fortum Varme
2015 UK wood Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant-E.ON
2015 UK waste derived fuels also Ferrybridge multi-fuel power plant-SSE Generation
2014 GA Warren County biomass-fired power plant-Oglethorpe Power
2014 Sweden Torsvik cogen power plant-Jonkoping Energi
2014 TX Woodville-East TX Electric Coop
2014 UK Tyne Renewable Energy Center-MGT Power
2014 UK Drax biomass power project (Ouse Renewable Energy Plant)
2013 FL Deerhaven II-Gainesville Regional Utilities
2013 FL American Renewables power plant
2013 FL Adage LLC power plant
2013 NH Berlin BioPower project-Cate St. Capital
2013 WI Domtar Corp. paper mill power plant/We Energies
2012 AZ Pinal Power Maricopa power plant
2012 Finland wood Vaasa biogasification power plant-Vasiluodon Voima Oy
2012 MI Midland biomass cogen plant-Dow Corning
2012 Poland Polaniec CFB biomass power plant-GDF Suez
2012 Poland Jaworzno CFB-Poludniowy Koncern Energetyczmy (PKE)
2012 Thailand Prachinburi power plant-Biomass Electricty Co.
2012 TX wood wastes Nacogdoches County CFB biomass power plant-Southern Power
2012 UK wood chip Tees Valley-Gala Power
2011 TX Henderson power plant-SunMark Energy
2011 WV Mingo county biomass power plant-American Clean Energy
2010 UK wood Port Talbot biomass power plant-Global Wood Holding
2009 NM Estancia Basin Biomass-Western Power Production
2009 Sweden Igelsta combined heat and power plant expansion-Soderenergi AB
2009 TX Lufkin-Aspen Power North
2007 UK Lockerbie (Stevens Croft) BFB-E.ON
2006 NH Northern Wood Power Project (CFB)-Public Service of New Hampshire
2006 WA Cedar Hills-Energy Development
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