Chinese Valve Purchases to Exceed $10 Billion Next Year
Industrial valve purchases for use in China next year will again grow robustly
and surpass $10 billion for the first time. This is the conclusion in Industrial
Valves: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company.
(www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Chinese Industrial Valve Revenues ($ Millions)
Industry Classification 2014
Chemical Control 233
Chemical OnOff 768
Electronics Control 6
Electronics OnOff 25
Food Control 46
Food OnOff 183
Iron & Steel Control 274
Iron & Steel OnOff 819
Metals Control 53
Metals OnOff 161
Mining Control 108
Mining OnOff 363
Oil & Gas Control 81
Oil & Gas OnOff 473
Other Electronics Control 3
Other Electronics OnOff 13
Other Industries Control 270
Other Industries OnOff 759
Pharmaceutical Control 30
Pharmaceutical OnOff 84
Power Control 807
Power OnOff 2,050
Pulp & Paper Control 205
Pulp & Paper OnOff 531
Refining Control 88
Refining OnOff 252
Wastewater Control 174
Wastewater OnOff 515
Water Control 232
Water OnOff 578
Total 10,184
On/Off valves for the power industry will be the biggest segment. Control valves
for the power industry will be the third largest segment and nearly equal to
On/Off valves for the iron and steel industry.
The Chinese five-year plan, which will add nearly 45,000 MW/yr of new coal-fired
power plants supplemented by an ambitious nuclear program, will result in this
very large power segment market.
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Pump Companies Are Expecting a Strong Year In 2013
Industrial pump company revenue growth is predicted to be 3.7 percent this year
according to the latest forecasts in the continuously updated McIlvaine report,
Pumps World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Continent 2012 2013 %
Total 37,012 38,423 3.7
Africa 1,440 1,519 4.9
America 9,965 10,219 2.5
Asia 16,932 17,905 5.9
Europe 8,675 8,780 1.2
Growth in Asia will exceed that of other continents. The lowest growth will be
in Europe. However, it should be noted that this is growth in consumption and
not production. The pump companies exporting from Europe are expecting higher
growth.
In general, the larger pump companies are expecting growth considerably above
the mean.
Rankings Company 2013 Growth %
1 Xylem 11
2 Flowserve 7
3 Grundfos A/S ?
4 Sulzer Ltd. 8
5 Weir Group 5
6 KSB 11
Two of the top six pump companies are expecting double-digit growth. Analysts
expect Xylem sales to increase 11 percent this year. Last year sales were flat
but were up 18 percent in 2011 and 12 percent in 2010. However, sales were down
13 percent in 2009. Flowserve sales are expected to rise over 7 percent this
year following sales increases over 5 percent last year and 12 percent in 2011.
Sales were down over 7 percent in 2010.
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$700 Million Market to Measure Particles in Air
Sales of devices to measure particles in the air exceed $700 million. This is
the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in its continuously updated Air
& Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
The market is very fractured. There are many applications and many types of
measurement instruments.
Category Recent Annual
Revenues
$ Millions
Opacity monitors-stack 150 (optical measurement)
Mass monitors-stack 100 with $300 million bubble coming
Process gas particulate continuous monitors 40 (measure mass)
Broken bag detectors 30 (determine particulate escaping due to broken filter
bags)
Portable method 5 particulate sampler trains 40 (measure weight by collecting
sample)
Ambient particulate monitoring stations 50 (measure weight)
Cleanroom particulate network systems 60 (count particles)
Cleanroom portable particle counters 40 (count particles)
Continuous indoor air particulate monitoring 50 (count particles)
Printer and other device particulate monitoring 20 (count particles)
Portable particulate monitors-indoor air 60 (count particles)
Biological viable particulate monitors-portable 50 (capture particles for later
culture)
Engine test centers (particulate segment) 70 (particulate segment)
Total 760 (plus mass CEM surge)
The biggest segment is a more sophisticated version of the London smoke chart
developed over 900 years ago. The smoke inspector determined whether the stack
plume was black, some shade of grey or white. The digital version of the device
today is the opacity monitor.
Many applications need more accurate measurement. Mass monitors determine the
weight of particulate in the gas stream. New U.S. EPA requirements for power
plants, cement plants and industrial boilers are requiring mass measurement.
This will create a several hundred million dollar surge in sales.
A very clean exhaust gas stream still contains millions of particles. In fact,
clean normal ambient air contains about 500,000 particles per cubic foot.
Semiconductor cleanrooms must maintain an air quality of less than one particle
per cubic foot. There is no mass measurement method that is of sufficient
sensitivity. So particle counting is the only option in cleanrooms and indoor
work spaces.
There is a great deal of complexity relative to the definitions. The reported
measurements are based on particles of a certain size (generally 0.5 to as low
as 0.1 micrometers). This means that particles below 100 nanometers are not
measured. Generally these small particles are not sufficient in quantity to be
considered. However, with nano technology gaining in popularity, there is the
potential for the number of nano particles to be significant.
Another problem is the distinction between discrete and total particulate. New
EPA and State rules take into account condensible as well as discrete particles
and call the aggregate “total particulate.“ There are challenges in making the
measurements and challenges in supplying air pollution control equipment to
reduce total particulate to the required levels.
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Headlines for the August 2, 2013 – Utility E-Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1136 – August 2, 2013
Table of Contents
COAL – US
• Power Plants Requesting MATS Extensions
• Southern committed to 582 MW IGCC Kemper Power Plant
• Navajo wants to shut One Unit, add SCR to Other Two by 2030
• Sixteen States Cited for High SO2 Levels
COAL – WORLD
• Toyo Ink Group to develop 2000 MW Song Hau 2 in Vietnam
• China to build Four Power Plants in the Gadani Power Park, Pakistan
• Pakistan to convert Diesel-fired Power Plants to Coal-firing
• Poyry is Owner’s Engineer for 1,320 MW Phong 1 Power Plant
• Botswana’s African Energy Resources proposes 300 MW Power Plant associated
with Coal Mine
• MHI to supply Boilers and Steam Turbines for 1320 MW Chhabra Power Plant in
India
• Meralco proposes 50-80 MW Power Plant for Philex Mining Corp. in Philippines
• Sri Lanka exploring Locations for 50 MW Power Plant
• Sepco to build 318 MW Power Plant in Jerada, Morocco
• Ultra Mega Power Projects at Cheyyar and Bedabahal in India should be Awarded
in Early 2014
• Ayala to build 3x135 MW Power Plant at Lanao de Norte, Philippines
GAS / OIL – US
• Gemma Power Systems enters into an EPC Agreement with Moxie Patriot LLC for a
Gas-fired Power Plant
• Genesee Power Plant in Thetford Township, MI gets Air Permit
• Mitsubishi Gas Turbines for 1000 MW Wildcat Point
GAS / OIL – WORLD
• 100 MW Power Plant for Purcellsinch, Ireland
• Drax could Invest in Gas-fired Power Plants
CO2
• U.S. Appeals Court Rejects States’ Challenge of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules
NUCLEAR
• Duke cancels Crystal River (Levy County) Nuclear Project
• 4,800 MW Akkuyu Nuclear Power Project in Turkey Delayed
• India Railways could turn to Nuclear Power Plants to Supply Power for Electric
Locomotives
• Belarus, Russia negotiate on new Nuclear Power Plant Project
• NRC Decision on Duke Nuclear Power Project Delayed
BUSINESS
• MPSA’S Large Scale SCR System at 800 MW Marsh Landing Simple Cycle Power Plant
• Virginia SCC approves APCo Purchase of Amos 3
• Cogeneration, Fuel Switching, and Upgrades Are All Choices for U.S. Industrial
Boiler Operators
• Stationary NOx Catalyst market to Reach $2 Billion in Next 4 Years
HOT TOPIC HOUR
• “New Developments in Air Pollution Control Technology - Part 2” – Hot Topic
Hour on August 1, 2013
• “Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation” is the Hot Topic Hour
on Thursday, August 8, 2013
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
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“Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater” will be the Hot Topic on
August 15, 2013
On April 19, 2013, EPA proposed revisions to the effluent limitations,
guidelines and standards that would strengthen the existing controls on water
discharges from steam electric power plants. The rules would require power
plants to install pollution control technology and implement waste-treatment
procedures in a phased approach between 2017 and 2022. The EPA must finalize the
rules by May 22, 2014. The rules apply to all water discharged from steam power
plants, but a particular concern is FGD wastewater. The pollutants of concern
include mercury, arsenic, selenium, nitrogen and total dissolved solids.
Over the next few years, plant operators will be upgrading their existing SO2
control systems and installing new systems to meet the new emission limits posed
by the utility MATS and CASPR (when finalized). The great majority of existing
systems are wet FGDs and it is likely that most new FGDs will be wet because it
is difficult for a dry system to meet the new emission limits. These wet FGDs
utilize large quantities of water with limestone to remove the SO2. The proposed
water discharge rules as well as increasing regulations limiting the
availability and use of water will be of great concern to operators of existing
wet FGDs and those power plants considering installation of new FGDs.
It is not an easy task to design an FGD wastewater treatment system that meets
or exceeds discharge regulations because the quantity and composition of FGD
discharge water varies widely based on the boiler rating, scrubber type, the
efficiency of flyash removal, the efficiency of the dewatering system and the
composition of the coal, limestone and make-up water used. Most FGDs discharge
purge or wastewater that is a slurry of water, dissolved solids and suspended
solids laden with heavy metals and salts.
The following speakers will describe the options available to plant operators
utilizing or considering wet FGDs to achieve the discharge limits and reduce
water usage and discuss their experience with developing, testing, designing and
troubleshooting treatment technologies for FGD wastewaters, the advantages and
disadvantages of the currently available options including capital and operating
costs and the latest state-of-the-art technologies for treating, minimizing or
eliminating the wastewater that is generated by wet FGD systems.
Paul Chu, Project Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute, will present
the work EPRI has been doing to evaluate wastewater treatment options. EPA
recently proposed numeric limits for selenium, mercury, arsenic and
nitrate/nitrite for FGD wastewaters. As power plants require cost-effective and
reliable treatment options, EPRI has been conducting treatment evaluation
studies in the laboratory, pilot and full-scale. EPRI’s work has focused upon
physical/chemical precipitation and adsorption based technologies as well as
biological reduction approaches.
Norikazu Inaba, Manager of Process Engineering at MHIA /Advatech (A URS & MHIA
Company), will discuss “Simple Zero Liquid Discharge System for FGD Wastewater.”
MHI has developed low CAPEX/OPEX technology for truly achieving zero liquid
discharge (ZLD) from wet FGD to meet the stringent effluent limits. The
Wastewater Spray Dryer (WSD) that eliminates a purge stream from the wet FGD
process is easy to retrofit and requires no chemicals and significantly less
energy than the conventional brine evaporator.
Gordon Maller, Principal Project Manager and Business Development Manager for
URS Corporation – Process Technologies Office, will present “Wastewater
Treatment and Zero Liquid Discharge Technologies – Overview and New Technology.”
New effluent limitation guidelines (ELG) have been proposed by the EPA which
will require utilities to provide significantly higher levels of treatment prior
to discharge for a number of wastewater streams in contact with coal combustion
residuals (CCR) including FGD wastewater. This presentation will provide an
overview of the new rules as well as an overview of existing and emerging WWT
and ZLD technology to comply with the new rules. New technology and strategies
for plants to operate as ZLD at a much lower cost, optimize water usage, and
accomplish necessary improvements such as closing waste impoundments will also
be discussed.
William A. Shaw, Senior Process Engineer for HPD® Evaporators and Crystallizers
at Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America, will present “Zero
Liquid Discharge Systems for FGD Wastewater.” In light of proposed EPA Effluent
Limit Guidelines, many coal-fired power plants are considering ways to reduce
their water discharges. Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) processes are being studied
in anticipation of even more restrictions on water discharges in the future.
Closing the loop by adopting a ZLD treatment scheme will usually involve
consideration of evaporation and crystallization technologies as these have had
and will continue to play an important role in the recovery and re-use of water
from industrial wastewater streams. However, ZLD systems can be very expensive
from both a capital and operational perspective. New approaches to evaporator
system design, especially the recently patented CoLD® crystallization
technology, provide additional options to power plants which are looking for
methods to effectively and economically reduce or eliminate their water
discharges from FGD scrubbers.
To register for the August 15 “Hot Topic Hour” on “Control and Treatment
Technology for FGD Wastewater” at 10 a.m. DST, click on:
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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 $125.00 for non-subscribers. Market Intelligence webinars
are free to McIlvaine market report subscribers and are $400.00 for
non-subscribers.
2013
DATE SUBJECT
August 15 Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater Power
August 22 Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications
Power
August 29 Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology Power
Sept. 5 Fabric Selection for Particulate Control
Power
Sept. 19 Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines Power
Sept. 26 Multi-Pollutant Control Technology
Power
Oct. 3 Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards Power
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