Scrubbers, biofilters, adsorbers, and absorbers are used in hundreds of applications. The McIlvaine Scrubber/Adsorber World Market report forecasts that this year scrubber companies around the world will receive orders valued at $900 million for odor control systems for municipal wastewater plants, $650 million for metal working plants, and $100 million for refineries. Total orders for scrubber systems will exceed $4 billion in 2004 according to the latest McIlvaine forecast. The company closely tracks projects and developments in specific industries. Here are some examples:
STEEL INDUSTRY
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has projected that its annual consumption would rise to 300 million tons over the next five years, which implies that the steel boom riding on China-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Investment jumped 120 percent in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period last year----------------------------------------------------------------------------
REFINERIES
The U.S. Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Attorney, San Francisco announced a comprehensive Clean Air Act settlement with Chevron U.S.A. Inc. The settlement is expected to reduce harmful air emissions by almost 10,000 tons per year from five U.S. petroleum refineries that represent more than five percent of the total refining capacity in the United States----------------------------------
ODORS
Lots of odor control projects are pending in the U.S. Municipal Wastewater plants are the biggest potential. McIlvaine has a separate database US. Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants and People which tracks these projects. Miscellaneous odor projects are covered in the Scrubber/Adsorber World Markets Updates: Here is one example:
Spurred by dozens of citizen complaints about persistent odors, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York sought a court order to stop operations at an upstate oil company until it can bring its air emissions into compliance with state environmental law. The state Department of Environmental Conservation joined in the lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Cortland against Homer Oil Co. The company operates a soybean processing plant in Homer, a village of 3,500 residents located 30 miles south of Syracuse. The facility’s processing operations create strong odors as it crushes, cooks and then cools large quantities of soybeans into soy-meal feed for livestock and liquid oil, Spitzer said.
Here are the headlines from the latest Scrubber/Adsorber Newsletter:
BIOSCRUBBING
· Purspring™ Bioreactors Used for Odor Treatment at Sewer Lines
· Naval Station Has Extremely Variable Wastewater
· Destruction Efficiency Not the Main Hurdle
· Trickle-Bed Air Biofilter Effective on Opto-Electronic Emissions
· ITRI Has Set Up a Method for O&M of Biofilters
· Bioscrubbing of a Complex Mixture of VOCs Studied
· Exhaust Emissions from Biofiltration Systems Studied
· Sequencing Batch Biofilter Can Increase Contaminant Removal During Transient Conditions
INDUSTRY NEWS
· Met-Pro Enters Into Exclusive License with BNF Aromatrix
CONSENT DECREES
· ERI and EWV Will Reduce NOx, SOx, PM and CO from Refinery Process Units
· CEPOC Will Implement Innovative Technologies to Control Pollutants
· NCRA to Pay Penalty of $350,000
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Bob McIlvaine
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