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Upgrade Projects Costing $ Billions Underway At North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants

The 18,000 plants in North America which are extracting water and purifying it for residential, commercial and industrial use have committed to spend $ billions to upgrade their facilities. These projects are tracked bi-weekly in the McIlvaine North American Public Water Plants and People. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Types of expenditures can be classified as new facilities to expand supply, new facilities to replace facilities being retired, upgrading of older facilities and routine maintenance and replacement. In North America, the upgrades are the leading sector in terms of investment.

Upgrades can be triggered by consumer demand for better quality, new regulations limiting contamination levels, improved reliability or by maintenance reduction.

Representative Upgrade Projects at North American Municipal Drinking Water Plants
City	State	Equipment
Westerville	0H	Pressurized activated carbon filters
Chickasha	OK	$150 million overhaul to improve taste, odor and appearance
Kitanning	PA	Chemical storage and feed
Pulaski	VA	Hydraulic to electric valves, digital controls, chemical feeders – first upgrade since 1989
Salida	CO	Upgrade granular media filter and chemical feed system in this plant built in 1959
Florence	AL	Miex system for dissolved organic carbon removal
Glasgow	KY	20 year upgrade
Nyssa	OR	Reduce arsenic to meet Federal requirement
Bay County	MI	Membrane filtration system
Saratoga Springs	NY	Replace filters which have been operating for 40 years
North Brevard	FL	Reduce TTHMs to below Federal long-term limit
Peace River	Alberta CA	New fluoridation system
Bethalto	IL	New filters and pumps

Many of the upgrades are taking place at plants which are more than 50 years old. Some operators have scheduled major upgrades every 20 years.

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Liquid and Air Filter Element Sales Will Exceed $34 Billion This Year

Sales of filter element to separate particles from air, gases, water, oil and other liquids will exceed $34 billion in 2013. This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Filter Element Revenues $ Millions 2013
Application	Liquid	Air	Total
Power Generation	100	1,500	1,600
Fluid Power	2,200	400	2,600
Mobile	5,000	3,000	8,000
Municipal	800	40	840
Residential/Commercial	7,000	5,000	12,000
Oil and Gas	300	400	700
Industrial, Other	5,000	4,000	9,000
Total	20,400	14,340	34,740

The largest single segment is the residential/commercial. This includes furnace, refrigerator and other air and water filters used in residences, office buildings and other governmental and commercial enterprises. Carbon block, membranes and non-woven filter media are used.

The industrial sector is the next largest. Filter element used in stack gas purification comprises the bulk of the air applications. Membrane and non-woven filter element used in pharmaceutical applications account for nearly 40 percent of the liquid portion of the industrial sector.

Mobile includes on-road as well as off-road vehicles, ships, rail locomotives and airplanes. Applications include filtration of fuel, coolant and intake air. Cabin air and components requiring lubrication. Fluid power includes both pneumatic and hydraulic filters.

The oil and gas sector uses extensive numbers of coalescing filter element to remove entrained droplets from gases. Liquid filter elements are used on a variety of applications.

Clarcor and Donaldson are two companies whose products are available in most of the sectors. Affinia concentrates just on the fluid power and mobile aftermarket. Cummins is primarily in the mobile sector. Parker Hannifin offers products for many sectors. However, unlike Donaldson and Clarcor, it does not offer the stack gas cartridges.

A number of media companies such as Ahlstrom, Lydall and Hollingsworth & Vose have products in all the sectors.

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Headlines for the September 13, 2013 – Utility E-Alert

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1142 – September 13, 2013

Table of Contents

COAL – US

§ DOJ wants to add Belle River 1, 2, Monroe 1, 3 and Trenton Channel 9 to NSR Lawsuit

§ Cabot Norit to provide Two ACI Systems

§ Cayuga conversion to Natural Gas is up to $924.3 less Costly than Power Line Upgrades

§ OG&E asks Court to dismiss EPA’s NSR Lawsuit against Muskogee and Sooner

§ Virginia Electric and Power Bremo Power Plant to convert to Natural Gas-firing

COAL – WORLD

JSPL to set up 175 MW Power Plant in Liberia

Calgon Carbon to supply Second Generation Advanced FLUEPAC^® Carbon for Mercury Removal in Canadian Power Plant

GDF Suez, Mitsui to operate 1,386 MW Safi Power Plant in Morocco

Amata B. Grimm Power considers Malaysia Power Plant to export Power to Thailand

3,690 MW Barethi and 1,600 MW Gadarwara Power Projects in India to get Coal Linkage

Units 3 and 4 at Bin Qasim (Pakistan) to be converted to Coal-firing

GAS/OIL – US

Emerson replaces Turbine Controls in Westport 5 Peaking Plant

GAS/OIL – WORLD

GE Gas Turbines to provide 360 MW of Fast Track Power to Turkmenistan

NUCLEAR

Taiwan May Face Further Delay in Completion of New Nuclear Power Plant

Westinghouse, Toshiba and Exelon Nuclear Partners to Collaborate on Nuclear Power Proposal in Saudi Arabia

Rosatom, Rolls-Royce, Fortum team up to build UK Nuclear Reactors

Pakistan planning another 1,100 MW of Nuclear Power

BUSINESS

U. S. Air Pollution Control Sales will Grow Seven Percent to $8.9 Billion In 2017

Major Variables Make Precise Forecasting of Future Energy Supply Mix Impossible

Chinese Regulations are Getting Tougher

You Can Now Search by Reagent and Process in Utility Tracking

HOT TOPIC HOUR

"Solar & Wind Strategies, Projects and Technology Developments was the Hot Topic Hour September 12, 2013

Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines will be the Subject of the Hot Topic Hour September 19, 2013 at 10:00 am CDT

Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

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DATE	Non-Subscribers Cost	SUBJECT	Webinar Type
September 26^th and 27^th 2013	$125.00	Multi-pollutant Control Technology	Power
October 3, 2013	$125.00	Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards	Power
October 17, 2013	$125.00	Air Pollution Control in China	Power
October 31, 2013	$125.00	Chinese FGD/SCR Program and Impact on the World	Power
November 21, 2013	$125.00	Wet vs. Dry ESP	Power
December 5, 2013	$125.00	Update on Gasification Projects and Technology	Power
December 12, 2013	$125.00	Selecting FGD Scrubber Components	Power
December 19, 2013	$125.00	Application of U.S. Mercury Control Technology in Other Countries	Power

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