Hot Gas Filtration Questions Replace Regulations as the Most Important Air
Pollution Control Subjects
Regulations are normally the most important factors changing the world’s air
pollution control decisions. However, advances in the ability to treat hot gases
make technology questions the most important subjects for air pollution control
purchasers in China, the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The regulations leave no doubt that existing precipitators on coal-fired
boilers, kilns and furnaces will need to be replaced or upgraded to higher
levels of efficiency. In addition, refinery catalytic cracker and precious metal
mining and smelting plants are looking for new routes to separate high value
products. So the stage is set for development of new technology to address these
interests.
There are many new hot gas filter developments and no clear solution. The
questions can be organized in two main categories: process and application.
Process Application
Temperature: 850oF, 400oF, 325oF, or 200oF Coal-fired boilers
Heat recovery Coal gasifiers
NOx removal Cement and other kilns
Acid gas removal Catalytic crackers
VOC removal Furnaces and smelting operations
Product separation Mining and rare earth recovery
There are hundreds of process questions involving which contaminants need to be
removed and what heat recovery benefits can be achieved.
There are presently many operating and planned retrofit projects involving
installation of synthetic filter bags in existing precipitator casings. This
approach can be combined with sorbent injection ahead of the air heater to
reduce the acid dewpoint. The heat exchanger can be modified to capture more
heat and discharge 200oF flue gas. Lots of potential advantages and questions
arise about the benefits and approach.
• Would the temperature reduction by itself improve precipitator efficiency
enough to avoid a bag retrofit?
• Can a lower cost bag, such as acrylic, be used as long as continuous
temperature control is assured?
• How does this solution fit into the overall need to remove multiple
pollutants?
The answers to these questions then generate a host of more detailed questions.
Fibers Shape and chemical characteristics?
Media Woven, non-woven, membrane?
Bag design Pleated, tubular, star?
Bag size Diameter and length?
Cleaning mechanism Pulse with high pressure or medium pressure, reverse air?
Components Cages, seals?
Installation Need for bag covers for membrane bags?
The selection is highly dependent on the particulate constituents. If the
collector is part of a dry FGD system with spray drier or fluid bed scrubber
preceding it, a large quantity of calcium sulfate will be captured. Dry sorbent
injection creates the same challenge.
The most novel development is the catalytic filter which has now been proven to
be commercial for glass plants, biomass combustors and mining. When this is
combined with ammonia and dry sorbent injection, it is possible to remove
particulate, acid gases and NOx at 850oF.
Another version of the catalytic filter using synthetic media and embedded
catalyst operates at 350oF and depending on the catalyst selected can remove NOx
or VOCs. Can the one device provide total removal of multiple pollutants or does
it need to be supplemented by SNCR or other technology to meet the emission
requirements?
Coal-fired boilers represent a multi billion dollar immediate potential for
filter upgrades. Other applications are also significant. Many coal gasification
systems with hot gas filters are presently under construction or planning.
Refineries can potentially replace precipitators and recover more valuable
catalyst with ceramic filters. NOx control can also be included with the
catalytic filter.
Product recovery is an important potential. Metal and ceramic filters are
already in use in a variety of hot gas filtration applications where product
recovery is the most important filter function. Rare earth recovery from flyash
could be a big potential for hot gas filters.
The many questions and rapidly developing technology are being addressed by
McIlvaine with a holistic approach. There are multiple decision systems. Within
each system are decision guides to allow the user to focus on specific aspects.
Most of this is contained in 44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions (Power Plant
Decisions Orchard). Despite the title, the decision system does cover the range
of hot gas applications in many industries. It includes webinars, summaries,
fabric filter and precipitator newsletters and many other decision tools.
PRECIP NEWSLETTER HEADLINES
June 2015
COAL-FIRED BOILERS
• Difficult Complex Decisions for Coal-fired Power Plant Operators
• BHEL to Develop 1,080-MW Manuguru Thermal Power Plant in India
• Reliance Power Commissions 3,960-MW Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in India
• Emerson to Automate New High Efficiency Unit at TAURON Power Plant in Poland
• L&T Awarded Order Worth Rs.5,580 Crore from NTPC
• Alstom to Install Integrated Air Quality Control Systems at Nizhnekamskaya
TPP-2 CHP Plant in Russia
• BHEL Commissions Second 800-MW Supercritical Boiler at Indian Thermal Power
Plant
• Emerson (EMR) Automates Power Generating Unit in India
• Fortum to Invest in a CHP Plant in Poland
• Opposition Over Central Java Coal-fired Power Plant
• Power China to Build Coal-fired Power Plant Outside Karachi
• Vietnam Coal-fired Power Project Secures $209-Million Loan
IRON AND STEEL
• Shougang Qian’An to Employ New Fine Dust Extraction Technology Developed by
SMS Group
• Essar Steel Power Plant Damaged by Cyclone Restored
PELLET PLANT
• Heumann Environmental Plays Integral Role in Zilkha Biomass Energy’s Black
Pellet Fuel Plant
CEMENT
• Cement Plants in India Slow to Comply with New Regulations
INDUSTRY NEWS
• Fuel Tech Awarded Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $2.2 Million
• 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
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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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OIL & GAS SALES LEADS HEADLINES
July 9, 2015
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Precipitators: World Market or World Fabric Filter and Element Market
subscribers.
Treatment chemicals are an important addition to most oil and gas processes.
Access to details on worldwide oil and gas projects is provided at a substantial
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Element Market subscribers.
(Listed by most current date)
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 Newbuild 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
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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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WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECT HEADLINES
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There
are thousands of projects in the database.
New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and
Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World
Power Generation Projects has just the project data.
FUEL: Oil
Startup Date Location Fuel Comment Project Title
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Chapainawabganj power plant-Bangladesh Power
Development Board
Unknown Bangladesh Madanganj-Summit Power
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Sedpur power project
Unknown Bangladesh furnace Dohar power plant
Unknown Bangladesh Barisal power plant-Summit Industrial
Unknown Kenya Rabai power plant-Kenya Power and Lighting Co.
Unknown Panama heavy fuel oil, 3% S Miraflores expansion
Unknown Saudi Arabia heavy fuel, light crude as backup Yanbu power plant
Unknown Uganda heavy fuel Tororo power plant-Albatross Energy
Online Kenya diesel Nairobi diesel plant
Online NC Buxton 1-5-North Carolina Elec. Mem. Corp.
Cancelled IL Elwood CFB-Indeck Energy
2017 Saudi Arabia Jeddah South supercritical power plant-Saudi Electricity Co.
2015 Estonia shale Narva oil shale CFB power plants-Eesti Energia
2015 Niger diesel Goroubanda diesel power plant
2015 Saudi Arabia Heavy fuel oil Rabigh 6 - Saudi Electricity Co
2015 Vietnam O Mon 2 power plant-Can Tho Thermal Power Co.
2014 Jordan heavy and light fuel oil Al Manakher power plant-Amman Asia Electric
Power
2014 Jordan heavy fuel oil, distillate IPP4 Al-Manakher power plant-AES Corp.
2012 Bangladesh PowerPacMutiara Jamalpur power plant
2012 Bangladesh Kodda-BPDB-RPCL Powergen
2011 Bangladesh furnace Gopalganj peaking power plant
2011 Bangladesh Ghorasal rental power plant-Aggreko
2011 Bangladesh HFO Dohazari power plant
2011 Bangladesh Desh Energy power plant in northern region
2011 Bangladesh HFO Hathazari peaking power plant
2010 Bangladesh diesel Khulna project-Aggreko
2010 Brazil Campina Grande power plant-Borborema Energetica
2010 Brazil heavy fuel oil Geramar 1,2-Geradora de Energia do Maranhao
2010 Brazil heavy fuel oil Termeletrica Viana SA power project
2010 Pakistan furnace Lilian Town power project-Private Power and Infrastructure
Board
2010 Pakistan heavy fuel oil Lahore power project-Nishat Power
2010 Saudi Arabia crude Shuqaiq Water and Desalination Project
2009 Cameroon heavy fuel oil Dibamba power project-AES (Kribi Power)
2009 Pakistan Lahore diesel cogen plant
2009 Sudan Kosti power project-National Electricity Corp.
2008 Brazil diesel Salvador-Energetica Camacari Muricy ISA power plant
2008 Greece Sitia-Public Power Corp.
2008 Pakistan Residual fuel oil Morgah-Attock Oil Group
2007 Saudi Arabia crude Shutata
2007 Uganda Heavy oil Namanve
2006 El Salvador diesel Colon diesel engine power plant-Comision Hidroelectrica
del Rio Lempa
2005 Cuba crude Santa Cruz
2004 Estonia shale Eesti CFB repower
2004 Honduras heavy fuel oil Pavana III-Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo
2004 Sudan diesel Khartoum diesel engine plant
2004 Thailand Krabi-EGAT
2003 Dominican Republic Azua-Paliza-Viyella Group and Caterpillar Inc.
2003 Saudi Arabia Enelpower SpA plant
2002 Guatemala heavy fuel oil or emulsified fuel San Jose-Duke Energy
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