Subject:  Scrubber Market News for May 2008

Two newsletters, Scrubber/Adsorber and Gold Dust, provide updates on the scrubber market and are included in the Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets.  Below are the headlines for these newsletters.

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SCRUBBER/ADSORBER
          ^NEWSLETTER   

                                                                                                May 2008

                                                                                                            No. 407

OIL AND GAS

• TORR Canada Awarded Additional $1.44-Million Contract with Worley Parsons and BP Exploration Alaska
• Valero Fined for Failing to Monitor Scrubber
• Gasoline Storage Facility Fined for Clean Air Violations

RESEARCH

• Researchers Exploring Ways to Convert Manure Gas into Fertilizer

SOLAR

• Solsonica Purchases Two Edwards Atlas Thermal Conditioning Systems

BIOMASS

• Genco Acquires Complete Initial Generator Package in Preferred Stock Transaction

REGULATIONS

• Revisions Proposed for Coal Preparation Standards
• EPA Proposes Revisions to Standards for Nonmetallic Minerals Processing Plants

VIOLATIONS

• EPA Reaches Agreement with Dow Corning on Clean Air Violations
• Odor Issues at Cement Plant
• EPA Reaches Agreement with American Energy on Clean-Air Violations

COMPANY NEWS

• New Report on Pollution Reduction Costs of U.S. Manufacturers
• TurboSonic Announces $2-Million New Order from OSB Producer
• CECO Environmental Announces Seven New Orders Totaling $5 Million
• Nalco Forms Air Pollution Control Center of Innovation
• ADA-ES Purchases Activated Carbon Processing, Storage and Transportation Equipment

GOLD
DUST  

The "Air Pollution Management" Newsletter

May 2008
No. 361

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MARKETS

·         $20/MMBtu Gas Will Change the Outlook for Coal, Air Pollution Control and Global Warming

·         DOE to Loan $38.5 Billion for Advanced Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

·         U.S. Oil Shale Reserves are Twice the Proven Oil Reserves of the World

·         Opposition to Maryland Bill to Limit CO₂

·         Co-firing Ethanol and Supercriticals Are the Best Route to Greenhouse Gas Reduction

ACQUISITIONS

·         Albemarle Corporation to Acquire Sorbent Technologies Corporation

·         Reinforced Plastic Systems Acquires Chautauqua Fiberglass

·         CECO Environmental Acquires Fisher-Klosterman, Inc.

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         ESP Upgrades and CEMS Slated for Lassen City California Biomass Boiler

·         New Acid Mist ESP for Philippine Copper Smelter

·         NO_x Control and ESP to be Installed in Iron Ore Pelletizer in Bahrain

·         TurboSonic Books $1 Million in New Orders

·         Seawater Scrubber Study for Holland American Ship

·         Oregon Packaged Concrete Plant to Install Dust Collector

·         Imperial Sugar Cited for Violations Following Fatal Dust Collector Fire

·         Fuel Tech and Chem-Mod Agree to Jointly Pursue Multi Pollutant Control

·         Baghouses Being Installed at Algoma Steel

·         Explosion in Wood Pellet Plant in BC

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com