SCRUBBER/ADSORBER
NEWSLETTER
July 2015
No. 493
Table of Contents
MARKETS
Shifting in the Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Market
OEMS and Consultants Purchase or Influence Nearly Half of All Flow Control and
Treatment Products and Services
SHIP EMISSIONS
Grimaldi Group Has Now Ordered Tenth Alfa Laval PureSOx Scrubber
Babcock Noell GmbH to Supply SOx Scrubber for Maritime Applications to
Shipping Company Carl Bϋttner
Condor Ferries Orders Four DuPont™ Marine Scrubbers
DeltaLangh Scrubber Installed on M/V Bore Song
New DuPont™ Marine Scrubber Introduced at Nor-Shipping 2015
PULP MILLS
Successful Startup After Two Years of the Valmet Delivered Pulp Line at the
CMPC Guaίba Mill in Brazil
COMPANY NEWS
Babcock & Wilcox Planned Spin-off of Power Generation Business on Track for
Mid-Summer
Biorem Announces Orders Totaling $2.5 Million
Greenbelt Resources Selected for Expanded Scope of Work on Vapor-Capture
System for EcoPAS
Bionomic Offers High Performance Series 7000/8000 Venturi Scrubber in a Fully
Engineered Integrated Package
Solvay and Enirgi Chemicals Join Forces to Market SOLVAir Solutions for
Emissions Treatment in North America
BASF Names Kinetix Solutions, LLC as New Distributor for Ammonia & Syngas Gas
Treatment Solutions
REGULATIONS
Federal and State Governments Reach Legal Agreement with Tonawanda Coke to
Reduce Pollution and Pay $12 Million
Proposed Consent Decree Filed Against AK Steel
EPA, Department of Justice and Clearwater Paper Settle Clean Air Act
Violations in Lewiston, Idaho
EPA Requires Honolulu to Prevent Hazardous Air Emissions at Kapaa Landfill
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GOLD
DUST
The "Air Pollution Management" Newsletter
July 2015
No. 447
TABLE OF CONTENTS
HOT TOPICS
• Lots of Wet Calcium Issues and Options - Hot Topic Hour May 14, 2015
• MACT Update provided in Hot Topic Discussion May 7, 2015
• Hot Topic Hour May 21 covered GTCC Air Intake Issues and Options
REGULATORY
• New Data reveals Increase in Emissions from Natural Gas Drilling Operations as
Activity Increases, Reporting Requirements Expand
• Emission Standards issued for New and Existing Sewage Sludge Incinerators
• Residual Risk and Technology Review Finalized for Off-site Waste and Recovery
Operations
• Proposed Consent Decree Lodged against Continental Carbon Company
MARKETS
• Keep adapting to Offset Shrinking Coal Market in the U.S.
• Market for Mercury Reduction Expanding beyond the U.S.
• How to Make Coal Plants Greener
• Shifting in the Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Market
• Hundreds of Options facing Power Plants Purchasing New or Upgrading Wet
Calcium FGD Systems
• $25 Billion Annual Market for Coal-fired Power Plant Air Pollution Upgrades
INDUSTRY NEWS
• Fuel Tech awarded Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $8.3 Million
• Donaldson acquires Middle East Gas Turbine Intake System Supplier
• Nederman receives Two Orders in the Americas with a combined value of 45 MSEK
• HemiPleat Synthetic Dust Collector Filter offers High Moisture Resistance,
Durability, Enhanced Performance
• AAF names Philip Whitaker as CEO AF Division
• Sly Inc. launches New Website
• Alfa Laval and RCL close Deals for Four PureSOx Scrubbers, including an Inline
• Alfa Laval PureSOx Water Cleaning Process now Patented
• Clarcor Industrial Air launches New UAS® Smog-Hog® MSH-11 Designed to meet the
Unique Mist and Smoke Collection Needs of Machining Centers
• NWL announces the Launch of its Revamped Website
• Environmental to Acquire PMFG
• Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises will be on its Own Starting July 15
• EU still Reviewing Alstom Merger with GE
5AB Air Pollution Management
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.)
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June 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
InVisage Expands with New Taiwan Factory
TI's Sugar Land, Texas Facility Awarded LEED® Gold Certification
Samsung to put 10nm Chips into Mass Production by End of 2016
Transphorm and ON Semiconductor Start of Production of GaN Power Devices
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July 13, 2015
Subsea Services Alliance Announces Plans for 15,000-psi Intervention Riser
System
Revision Date: 7/13/2015
ExxonMobil Begins Oil Production Ahead of Schedule at Kizomba Satellites Phase 2
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Enterprise and Occidental Petroleum to Build Natural Gas Processing Facility in
Delaware Basin
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Keppel FELS Delivers New build Jackup Kukulkan to Pemex
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Petroceltic Awarded Rig Contract for the Ain Tsila Project
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
EMC Signs $15 Mln Maintenance Contract with Zubair Field
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Wood Group Secures EnQuest North Sea Contract
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
EMAS AMC Clinches Several Global Projects Totaling $55 Mln
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
Companies Collaborate on Exploration Project in the Barents Sea
Revision Date: 7/9/2015
BP to Sell UK Gas Pipeline Stake to Infrastructure Fund
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
NY Paper Mill, NG Advantage to Get Natural Gas by Truck after Scrapping Pipeline
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
ExxonMobil Subsidiaries to Pay Nearly $5 Mln for Arkansas Oil Spill
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Technip Awarded FEED Contract for Liuhua Fields in China
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Repsol Makes New Gas Discovery in Algeria
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Eni Doubles Output in Egypt’s Western Desert
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Fluor Awarded $1 Bln Contract by Dominion Virginia Power to Build Natural
Gas-Fired Power Station
Revision Date: 7/8/2015
Pipeline Survey Approved in Part of West Virginia National Forest
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Oil and Gas Pipeline Company Caliber Midstream Partners Seeks Sale
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
South Dakota April Hearing on Keystone XL Pipeline Delayed
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
EU Gas under Pressure as Ukraine Signals Russian Return
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
TransCanada Seeks U.S. Permit on Upland Line as Keystone Waits
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
French Gas Giant GDF Suez Changes Name to "Engie"
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Africa’s Aliko Dangote Courts Blackstone Group to Boost Nigerian Gas
Revision Date: 7/7/2015
Italy Approves TAP Gas Pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Eminent Domain Legislation Advances in Iowa Legislature
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Energy Recovery Commences Field Trials of Hydraulic Fracturing VorTeq™ Pump
Protection System
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Technip Subsidiary, Tipiel Awarded Contract for Gas Pipeline in Peru
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Ovivo Awarded $9 Mln Contract to Supply High Specification Water Equipment for
Offshore Platform
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Howard Energy Partners Expands in Brownsville, TX with New Bulk Liquid Terminal
Facility
Revision Date: 7/6/2015
Enable Midstream Completes Bradley Processing Plant
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Enable Midstream Announces Completion of Bakken Crude Oil Gathering System
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Statoil Awards Ferus LP major CO2 Service Contract in North Dakota
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
PA DEP’s New Data Reveals Increase in Emissions from Natural Gas Drilling
Operations as Activity Increases
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Air Products and ACWA Holding Win Saudi Aramco Contract for World's Largest
Industrial Gas Complex
Revision Date: 7/3/2015
Technip Wins Subsea Contract on Triton FPSO
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Erickson Inc Wins Mexico Pipeline Construction Contract
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
North Dakota Legislature OKs State-run Rail Safety Program
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Alberta Lifts Levy on Carbon Output, Ups Target for Cuts
Revision Date: 7/2/2015
Oil-Sands Megaproject Era Wanes as Suncor to Imperial Scale Down
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ConocoPhillips Achieves First Steam at Surmont 2
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Kearl Expansion Project Starts Production Ahead of Schedule
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Scientists Say Tar Sands Development and Limiting Climate Change Are
‘Incompatible’
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Kearl Expansion Project Starts Production Ahead of Schedule
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Forecast Calls for 'muted' growth in Oilsands Production
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Oil-Sands Megaproject Era Wanes as Suncor to Imperial Scale Down
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Reducing Emissions should be the Goal as Canada Rethinks the Oil Sands Sector
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
ConocoPhillips Achieves First Steam at Surmont 2
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Ewart: NDP must Move Carefully on Oilsands Upgrading
Revision Date: 6/30/2015
Southern Pacific Resource to “Hibernate” The STP-McKay Oilsands Project by July
31
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Federal Regulator Urged to Suspend TransCanada Corp’s Energy East Pipeline
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Shell Pushes Carmon Creek Oil Sands Project to 2019
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Cash-strapped Oilsands Junior SilverWillow Returns 3 Leases to Province
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd Posts Loss
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
Canadian Natural Advances Planned Horizon Oil Sands Plant Maintenance to June
Revision Date: 6/29/2015
ExxonMobil Announces Cold Lake Project Expansion Starts Production on Schedule
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Gibson Energy to Build 900,000 barrels of Crude Storage in Alberta
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
TransCanada Expects B.C. Regulatory Decisions on Two Pipeline Projects in Q2
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
Aecon Awarded $109 Mln Contract for Work on Alberta, Sturgeon Refinery Project
Revision Date: 6/26/2015
CNOOC's Nexen Schedules Work on Long Lake Oil Sands Upgrader
Revision Date: 6/25/2015
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July 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AFRICA
Algeria: Water Minister Announces Plan to Build Over 100 New WWTPs by 2019
ASIA
China: SIIC Environment Awarded US$10 Million WWTP Project in Wuhan
India: Pune Approves Plan to Build 11 New Sewage Treatment Plants
India: Delhi Initiates Pilot Project to Turn Sewage into Drinking Water
Malaysia: Salcon Awarded US$6.4 Million WWTP Upgrade Contract
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Seeks US$900 Million to Build 4 WWTPs
Vietnam: Hanshin E&C Awarded US$35 Million WWTP Project in Hue
EUROPE
Finland: EIB backs €100 Million State-of-the-Art WWTP near Helsinki
France: Veolia Subsidiary Awarded €79 Million Contract to Upgrade WWTP in Paris
LATIN AMERICA
Colombia: Veolia to Build WWTP in Monteria under Renewed Service Contract
MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain: VA Tech Wabag Awarded US$92 Million Wastewater Treatment Project
Jordan: As Samra WWTP to Generate Power from Wastewater Sludge
Oman: Doosan Awarded Contract for Phase 2 of Al Ansab STP
Saudi Arabia: FCC Aqualia Awarded O&M Contract for Two Largest WWTPs in Mecca
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INDUSTRIAL EMITTERS UPDATE HEADLINES
July 2015
AMERICAS
Chemical
• Albemarle Begins Commissioning of New Lithium Carbonate Production Plant in
Chile
• Honeywell Resins and Chemicals Breaks Ground on New Resin Manufacturing Line
in Virginia
Iron/steel/metalworking
Permits
• Alcoa Massena Operations Title V Air Permit Renewal
• Alcoa Wenatchee Works Air Operating Permit
• Alcoa Davenport Works PSD Construction Permit
• Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products Air Permit Renewal and Revision
• AZZ Incorporated Announces Plan to Build New "Greenfield" Galvanizing Services
Plant in Reno, Nevada
Mining
• Capstone Mining Receives Approval of Environmental Impact Assessment for Santo
Domingo Project in Chile
Waste to Energy
• $4.9 Million Grant from California Energy Commission Awarded for Forest
Biomass Gasification Plant in North Fork, CA
• Viaspace Signs EPC Supervision Agreement for 12 MW Giant King Grass Power
Plant in Nicaragua
Other Industries
Permits
• Amphenol Printed Circuits Existing Permit Renewal
• Thomas & Betts Electrical Fittings Plating Permit Modification
• Henkel to Double Detergents Production Capacity in Mexico
ASIA
Chemical
• Sumitomo Announces Battery-Separator Capacity Expansion, New Plant in Korea
• Messer Commissions Second Krypton and Xenon Production Unit in China
• Linde to Install World’s Largest Onsite Fluorine Plant in South Korea
• BASF Inaugurates New Plant for High Performance Ultramid® in China
• Celanese to Construct VAE Emulsions Unit in Singapore
• Solvay Launches Silica Plant Construction in South Korea to Meet Energy Saving
Tire Demand
• Showa Denko to Build Hydrogen Fluoride Facility in China; Doubled Japan
Capacity
Waste to Energy
• ANDRITZ to Supply New Power Boiler for the Pohang Waste-to-Energy Plant, South
Korea
EMEA
Chemical
• WACKER Starts up New Production Plant for Specialty Monomers at Burghausen
• Air Liquide Starts Up Large Hydrogen Production Unit in Germany
• Sasol’s Wax Expansion Project Phase I Successfully Commissioned
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