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2013

 

DATE

SUBJECT

 

January 17

Production of Fertilizer and Sulfuric Acid at Coal-fired Power Plants                  

Power

January 24

Gypsum Dewatering

Power

January 31

Filter Media (forecasts and market drivers for media used in air, gas, liquid, fluid applications, both mobile and stationary).

Market Intelligence

February 14

NOx Control for Combined Cycle Gas Turbines

Power

February 21

Monitoring Boiler Steam Cycle Chemistry

Power

February 28

Implementation of the MACT Rule

Power

March 7

HRSG Design, Operation and Maintenance Considerations

Power

March 14

Inlet Air Pretreatment for Gas Turbines

Power

March 21

Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options

Power

March 28

Mercury Measurement and Control

Power

April 4

Fabric Selection for Particulate Control

Power

April 11

Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines

Power

April 18

Multi-pollutant Control Technology

Power

April 25

Control Technologies for Fine Particulate Matter

Power

May 2

Flyash Pond and Wastewater Treatment Issues

Power

May 9

Clean Coal Technologies

Power

May 16

Power Plant Automation and Control

Power

May 23

Cooling Towers

Power

May 30

Air Pollution Control Markets (geographic trends, regulatory developments, competition, technology developments)

Market Intelligence

June 6

Report from Power-Gen Europe (update on regulations, speaker and exhibitor highlights)

Power

June 13

Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers

Power

June 20

Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC

Power

June 27

Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables

Market Intelligence

July 11

New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control

Power

July 18

Measurement and Control of HCl

Power

July 25

GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement

Power

August  1

Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards

Power

August 8

Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation

Power

August 15

Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater

Power

August 22

Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology

Power

 

August 29

Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications

Power

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Headlines for the January 4, 2013 – Utility E-Alert 

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1106– January 4, 2013   

Table of Contents 

COAL – US

COAL – WORLD

§  Egco to award Contract for 500 MW Quezon Province Power Plant Expansion Soon

§  TAQA starts Talks on Coal-fired Power Plant in Turkey

§  Clyde Bergemann receives Third Order for Cleaning Solution at 3x800 MW Berezovskaya GRES in Russia

§  Tata Power to switch 500 MW Unit at Trombay to Coal-firing

§  Nova Scotia Power to Mothball Two Units at Lingan

§  Turkey to Privatize 600 MW Seyitomer

§  Tecpro to supply Coal Handling for 500 MW Bokaro 4

 

GAS/OIL - US

                                                                                                                                    

 

GAS/OIL – WORLD

 

CO2

§  CS Energy’s 30-MW Carbon Capture Project Starts up in Australia

§  SaskPower Secures Buyer for CO2 Captured at Boundary Dam Power Plant

NUCLEAR 

BUSINESS 

HOT TOPIC HOUR

 

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EUEC Has Strong Water Program This Year

EUEC will be held January 28-30, 2013 in Phoenix. McIlvaine will be an exhibitor and will be coordinating informal discussions relative to water issues for power. Co-location of power and sewage treatment plants is a concept more advanced than just using treatment municipal wastewater for cooling and burning sewage sludge. The integrated concept uses the waste heat from the power plant and makes it much more efficient. We will be focusing on this concept plus all the regulatory issues for intakes, etc.

We had a discussion at the Ovivo stand at Power-Gen on these issues, and we hope to enlist this company and others with the expertise to provide their views.  Advanced process optimization is another important component of successful co-location, so we have invited Yokogawa to also participate.  The complete program is displayed at:  http://euec.com/getattachment/Index/Brochure_2013.pdf.aspx.

The plenary keynote panel held on Monday, January 28, 2013, will feature:

EUEC is an annual energy, utility and environment conference organized jointly by a team of directors from the US EPA, US DOE, EPRI and EEI.  EUEC 2013 is the 15th annual conference, making it the largest and longest running professional networking and educational event of its kind in the United States.  EUEC provides an educational forum with 600 expert speakers in 12 tracks and networking events in the exhibit hall to facilitate the collaboration between government, industry and stakeholders for the protection of our environment and energy security.

 

Track B: Pollution Monitoring & Modeling.......................................10

Track C: Mercury Multi-Pollutant Control.......................................13

Track D: Shale Gas, Energy Policy & Security .................................17

Track E: Renewable Energy................................................................20

Track F: Operations & Mgmt..............................................................23

Track G: GHG, Carbon Mgmt & CCS...............................................26

Track H: Biofuels & Biomass ..............................................................29

Track I: Sustainability & Water..........................................................31

Track J: Energy Efficiency...................................................................34

 

D1. SHALE GAS & NEW MARKETS

D1.1 THE EFFECT OF SHALE GAS ON NEW ENGLAND POWER MARKETS

Stephen Slocomb, Associate, Epsilon Associates

D1.2 OPTIONS FOR CAPTURING THE VALUE OF SHALE GAS: ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC &

ENERGY SECURITY PERSPECTIVES

Joe Marriott, Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton; Robert Murray, Jesse Goellner, & Gary

Leatherman

D1.3 SHALE GAS & LNG EXPORT: REGULATION OF A REW PHENOMENON

Les Lo Baugh, Shareholder/Partner, Brownstein

D1.4 KELLY A SYSTEMWIDE MODEL TO MEET THE CHALLENGES & MAXIMIZE THE ECONOMIC

POTENTIAL FROM SHALE GAS EXTRACTION IN SMALL TOWN COMMUNITIES

Sayan Chakraborti, Senior Program Manager, MRIGlobal; Mark Abashian & Larry Brown,

MRIGlobal; Gregory Proctor, Prolifi c Technology

D2. FRACKING & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

D2.1 PUBLIC CONFIDENCE & HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS AN

ECONOMIC TOOL FOR RISK-SHARING

Kerry Schlichting, Senior Associate, ICF International; Libby McCullough

D2.2 FRACKING: ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY & POLICY UPDATE

Megan Roberts-Satinsky, Associate, Venable LLP

D2.3 FRACKING POLICY: WRONG POLICY COULD DERAIL GAS PRODUCTION OVERNIGHT

INCREASING COSTS TO HOMEOWNERS & INDUSTRY

Stephen Sewalk, Assistant Professor, University of Denver; Vincent Buscarello, Qionglin Dai &

Katelin Knox

D2.4 CREATING A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEM THROUGH GAS & ELECTRIC

HARMONIZATION

Kelly Daly, Chair - Energy & Environmental Division, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP

D2.5 ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SHALE GAS PRODUCTION &

RESOURCES

Sarah Jordaan, Project Manager, EPRI; Sean Bushart

I5. WATER SUSTAINABILITY

I5.1 DEVELOPMENT OF POTENTIAL GAME CHANGING COOLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR

POWER PLANT WATER CONSERVATION

Jessica Shi, Sr. Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute; Sean Bushart

I5.2 USE OF NON-DISINFECTED MUNICIPAL EFFLUENT

John Oster, Water Engineer, CH2M HILL; Charlie Nichols

I5.3 COMMERICAL ENERGY EFFICIENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT & WATER REUSE - IMET

TECHNOLOGY

Mehmet A. Gencer, CEO, IMET Corporation

I5.4 ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGE FOR COMPLIANCE

Kristen Jenkins, Global Technology Lead - Industrial Water, CH2MHILL; Thomas Higgins

I5.5 NEW AERATOR FOR WASTE LAGOONS

Jim Dartez, President, Reliant Water Technologies

I5.6 USE MUNICIPAL RECLAIM WATER & HIGH CYCLES OF CONCENTRATION FOR COOLING

TOWERS - SAVE WATER & ENERGY - BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE....

Ivan Cooper, Principal, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

I6. WATER & ELECTRIC UTILITIES

I6.1 UNDERSTANDING THE ENERGY/WATER NEXUS & DEVELOPING CONSENSUS-BASED

SOLUTIONS

Mary Doyle Kenkel, Executive Director, Center to Advance Energy & Water Management

I6.2 MHI’S SIMPLE ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGE SYSTEM FOR WET FGD

Shintaro Honjo, Research & New Technologies Engineering Manager, Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries America, Inc.; M. Ito, N. Inaba, & S. Sugita, MHI America, Inc.; T. Ushiku,

T. Nagayasu, T. Fukuda & S. Kagawa, MHI, Ltd.

I6.3 AN OVERVIEW OF THE WATER RESEARCH CENTER

Jeff Wilson, Principal Research Engineer, Southern Company; Richard Breckinridge EPRI; Jay

Wos SRI

I6.4 DESIGN & OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONDITIONING

Zachry Bahr, Mechanical Engineer, Burns & McDonnell

I6.5 WATER RISK & OPPORTUNITY FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES

Peter Flaherty, Sr. Engineer, ERM; Skelly Holmbeck

I6.6 IMPINGEMENT MONITORING & MODELING AT 15 POWER PLANTS ON THE OHIO RIVER

Greg Seegert, Chief Ichthyologist, EA Engineering, Science, & Technology; Ron King, Joe

Vondruska, Doug Dixon

I6.7 ADDRESSING THE NEW EFFLUENT STANDARDS THROUGH PLANT-WIDE MANAGEMENT

Andrew Byers, Associate VP, Black & Veatch; Mike Preston

 

$69 Billion Market for Industrial Process Automation and Control in 2013

This year industrial enterprises around the world will invest $69 billion for process automation and control. This is the latest finding in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

A number of companies participate in the industrial process automation and control market. Some of the companies have extensive lines of instrumentation and control valves which are included in their automation packages. Others have little instrumentation or valves but buy these from others. Many of the companies purchase some of the components and act as integrators.

Industrial process automation is distinct from building, transportation or other automation segments. The major purchasers include the power, refining and oil and gas industries.  World revenues in 2013 are projected at $69 billion.

Instrumentation is the largest segment and is analyzed in detail in a separate McIlvaine publication Air and Water Monitoring (including liquids and gases). Control valves are another substantial segment. It is analyzed in Industrial Valves: World Markets.

The integration of systems along with software to change operations is the biggest growth area. It is presently a $9 billion market, but has potential to be much larger.

In 2013 the power industry will be the biggest purchaser of automation systems.

Coal-fired power plants will buy more automation systems than the other generator types (nuclear, gas, biomass, wind and solar) combined. This is due to the huge construction activities in Asia and the attractive economics of increasing energy efficiency at older power plants.

Oil and gas will be the second largest industry segment. The Middle East will generate the most revenue in this segment, but NAFTA is closing the gap. A large investment in automation is   required in hydraulic fracturing. In the U.S., there is a very large investment in extraction of liquids from the so-called wet shale in the west and gas from dry shale areas in Texas and Pennsylvania.

The market is also expanding due to the expenditures to liquefy natural gas. In the U.S., terminals which were built to import and gasify LNG are now being converted over to liquefy the U.S. shale gas and export it.

New regulations on fugitive emissions make the automation package more complex. Systems to capture gas now released during well completion incorporate a number of valves and other products which must be automated. The reclamation and reuse of wastewater is also an expanding application for automation systems.

Sub-sea applications challenge suppliers with requirements for high pressure and performance.  Because of the lack of human access, the automation system has a very high reliability requirement.

The transport of gas liquids, which are a by-product of the shale gas extraction, provide still another application. There are also plans to invest more than $20 billion in gas-to-liquid plants. These plants will take advantage of the disparity between natural gas and oil prices. These plants will each require automation and control of thousands of valves, along with separators, compressors, pumps and other products.

McIlvaine has created a ranking which is based on different criteria than most.  It includes revenues just for industrial process automation after deduction of control valves.  Siemens is the largest supplier followed by ABB and Emerson.

Company

Revenues   $ Billions

Siemens

>5

ABB

>5

Emerson

>4

Yokogawa

>3

Schneider Electric

>3

Rockwell

>3

GE

>3

Mitsubishi

>1

Honeywell

>1

Invensys

>1

Endress & Hauser

>1

Yokogawa shows up higher on this list than one with general automation rankings for two reasons. The company does not make control valves and its primary focus is on the industrial sector.

The big long-range potential is to fully integrate advanced process automation with enterprise management.  One of the stumbling blocks has been a way to quantify social and economic alternatives. Various sustainability models are complex and not uniformly applicable. McIlvaine has created a common metric to measure all harm and good. It has also developed a database of important event odds, tribal factor impacts and the adjustment of future values to the present.

For more information on Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php?option=com_content&;view=article&id=71

 

 

AIR & WATER MONITORING NEWSLETTER      

 

January 2013
No. 399

 

REGULATIONS

§  EPA Amends Cement MACT Rule to Increase Allowable PM

 

POWER GEN

§  Power-Gen Exhibition Traffic was Heavy

MARKETS

INDUSTRY NEWS

§  Thermal Dispersion Type Mass Flow Meters Measure Digester Gas Flow in wastewater Plants

§  Thermo Fisher Completes Purchase of picoSpin

§  Emerson Reports Record Gross Margins for 2012

§  ABB Repositions Power Systems Division to Drive Higher Returns

HOT TOPICS

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