China Pump Market to Exceed $9 Billion Next Year

The Chinese market for pumps is growing rapidly as is the ability to supply them domestically. Industrial pump sales in China will exceed $9 billion in 2015 according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

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The exports exceed imports by approximately $1 billion, so total industrial pump production is over $10 billion.  Higher technology pumps are produced by international joint ventures and obtained by imports.  There are 20 large domestic producers accounting for sales of just under $2 billion.

Some of the joint venture international companies are exporting pumps from China. As a result, the sales by this group are several billion dollars per year.

The energy sector will contribute to much of the growth in the coming years. China has embarked on a huge coal to chemicals and fuels program.  If all the planned projects were to be completed, China would be converting 10 percent of the coal produced in the world into synthetic natural gas, gasoline and chemicals. The larger plants will use more than 20,000 pumps each.

China continues to build new coal-fired power plants at the rate of 50,000 MW per year. Existing power plants are being retrofitted with NO_x control.  These retrofits require pumps for ammonia injection.  Expenditures for flue gas desulfurization are larger than the expenditures at all the countries of Europe combined.  These systems require both water and slurry pumps.

The infrastructure investment also continues at a high pace. New municipal drinking water and municipal wastewater plants are accommodating the migrants to the cities.  The construction of generic pharmaceutical plants by international companies is also fueling the pump market growth. China is also a leading purchaser of equipment for semiconductor and other electronic plants.

For more information on Pumps World Market, click on:   http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/116-n019

U.S. Market for Gas Turbine System Components Shaped By Regulations and Economics

Some utilities will have to build new gas turbine plants and retire coal-fired power plants just to meet the new CO₂ limits. Some new gas turbine plants will not include major components because they will be constructed at existing coal-fired power plants which will be retired.  New components will be sold to existing gas turbine plants which were formerly operated just for peaking purposes and will now be operated under base load conditions.  These activities are chronicled in Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Supplier Program published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Ameren says it will need to add 1,200 MW of combined cycle natural gas generation by 2020 in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change. While the utility says its internal plans already called for more natural gas, it said the EPA proposal’s timeline would require more new power plants sooner than necessary and lead to rate hikes of 10 to 15 percent by 2020.

The new gas-fired power plants would come online around the same time Ameren plans to retire its coal-fired 840-MW Meramec power plant in south St. Louis County. But that retirement wouldn’t reduce the utility’s rate of carbon emissions without new, lower-carbon generation offsetting it. Building that amount of new capacity would cost roughly $2 billion and require at least four combined cycle gas-fired power plants.

The decision to build gas turbine plants at existing coal sites to some extent is influenced by alternative choices. The Xcel Black Dog Minnesota plant is an example. Calpine is countering the proposal to replace 235 MW of coal capacity at this plant with gas turbines by proposing to expand the Mankato plant by 350 MW.

Kentucky Cane Run 7 coal-fired power plant will be replaced by Siemens SGT5-5000F turbines which will generate 660 MW in a Black & Veatch design and build project. With more than 100 coal-fired power plants scheduled for retirement, the question arises as to how much of the existing plant can continue to be used with the switch to gas. In some cases there is just a fuel switch and no change to the balance of plant. Where a new turbine is installed, the existing cooling, boiler feed water and wastewater systems are often more than adequate for the new conditions.

The Florida Power Crystal River coal plants 1&2 will be retired when the first 820 MW of the 1640 MW combined cycle plant comes on line in 2018.

Coal is not the only fuel being replaced with GTCC.  Some oil-fired plants are being retired. There is even a biomass plant considering a switch to gas.

Southern Power's biomass plant in Sacul, Texas was no sooner in operation in 2012 that competition from natural gas surfaced. A guaranteed 20-year contract with the City of Austin keeps the plant open even though the city is buying primarily cheaper natural gas.  Southern Power wants to remain competitive, potentially at the Sacul site.  “So ultimately we'll build for our customers needs, but the applications speak to a gas-fired facility because there's piping in that area available,” said Jeannice Hall, the senior media relations strategist with Southern Company.

For more information on the Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/610-59ei.

Headlines for Utility E-Alert –September 12, 2014

UTILITY E-ALERT

#1191 – September 12, 2014                                   

Table of Contents

COAL - US

·       Dynegy MATS Controls

·       Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation to meet MATS

·       Met Announces Licensee WFGD Awards in China

·       Emerson Process Management named Contractor for Comprehensive Controls Replacement Project

·       Compromise Proposal for Cholla Coal-fired Power Plant in Arizona

COAL – WORLD

• L&T secures Rs. 5100 Crore Supercritical Power Plant order from MP State Utility, India
• Dubai shortlists Eight Companies for 1,200 MW Clean Coal-fired Power Plant
• NTPC to develop 4,000 MW Coal-fired Power Project in Visakhapatnam, India

GAS/OIL – US

• EPA rejects Power Plant Opponents' Appeal
• Fluor completes New Gas-fired Power Plant in Texas

GAS/OIL - WORLD

• Symbion Power commits US $900 Million to Tanzania-Gas to-Power Plant
• Palestine: EOI for EPC Tender of PPGC 450 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant
• Foster Wheeler to supply HRSGs for Hail Power Plant
• Iran to partner with Russia to build Eight Thermal Power Plants in Iran

NUCLEAR

• Sendai Nuclear Power Plant receives Regulatory OK to restart
• Areva to develop Prototype Panels for Fusion Nuclear Reactor
• China is sole bidder for New Nuclear Reactors in Romania

BUSINESS

• Game Changers for the Air/Water Treatment and Flow Market
• The Asian Market for Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) Systems, Repair Parts and Service will exceed $11 Billion in 2015
• Yara acquires STRABAG

HOT TOPIC HOUR

• Variable Speed Drives can save Billions of Dollars in meeting 316B – Hot Topic Hour September 11
• “Monitoring for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot Topic Webinar on September 18 at 10 a.m. Central
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours

For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei

“Water Treatment Chemicals for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot Topic Webinar on September 25 at 10:00 a.m. Central

This webinar will be both organizational and informative. It is all part of a whole knowledge system for gas turbine combined cycle plant operators - Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions.  The free website and periodic webinars empower the operators to buy the best products rather than the most familiar or least expensive. 

The webinar on the 25^th will try to answer the question: What are the most important and difficult decisions you will have to make regarding treatment chemicals?  On August 28 we conducted a webinar on Degasification and Demineralization. One of the discussions was on  Improving Silica Removal by EDI and GTM by Michael Snow, Snowpure.  Is there a need for a treatment chemical to compliment the EDI and GTM?

Another discussion was on Control of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion in Steam Generators by Brad Buecker, Kiewit - Hot Topic Hour 8-28-14.  Is there chemical treatment to reduce FAC as well?

Panelists:

Jeffrey Tate, President of Agape Water Solutions

Roger Light, Ultrapure Water Specialist at Dow Chemical

Colleen M. Layman, Water Specialist at HDR Engineering, Inc.

Brad Buecker, Specialist/Process at Kiewit Power Engineers

Tom Muilenberg, Senior Manager, Industrial Sales at MIOX Corporation

Daniel C. Sampson, Principal Consultant Power/Water/Wastewater at WorleyParsons , Inc./ Energy & Chemical

These are the types of pertinent questions that the operators want answered.  Others would be:

With fast start HRSGS and constant cycling what chemical additions will counter some of the negative consequences of this operating mode?

If use ACC instead of wet cooling and have increased iron content how do you solve this problem?

What are the water chemistry issues facing GTCC operators which are unique to this type of power generation?

What are the chemical treatment needs if zero liquid discharge technology is mandated? 

What are the chemical treatment recommendations if treated municipal wastewater is selected for the cooling or even the boiler feedwater?

How do you keep fogging nozzles from plugging and also prevent introduction of contaminants which will cause turbine blade build up?

What other questions are GTCC operators asking?  This webinar is free for power plants?

Click here to view schedule and register

McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration

On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Central time, McIlvaine hosts a 90 minute web meeting on important energy and pollution control subjects. Power webinars are free for subscribers to either Power Plant Air Quality Decisions or Utility Tracking System. The cost is $300.00 for non-subscribers.

See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input relative to suggested additions.

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