February 2013 - Water Market Insights 36

Control Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities is Hot Topic Hour on February 7, 2013

At 10:00 a.m. on February 7, 2013, McIlvaine will conduct a “Hot Topic Hour” on control valves for power applications. This will be an interactive discussion, so we encourage those of you with questions and perspective to join us. The basic structure will be:

Combustion, heat exchange, water treatment, boiler feedwater, wastewater treatment, air pollution control, solids handling

Tom Tschanz and Bob McIlvaine will be leading the discussion and displaying diagrams and other material to facilitate the discussion.

This service is free to our Power Plant Decisions, Valve World Markets, Utility Upgrade Tracking and Fossil and Nuclear World Markets and certain other subscribers. There is a $125 charge for others.

To register for the February 7, 2013 “Hot Topic Hour” at 10:00 a.m. Central time, click on:

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 Environmental Upgrade 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.

DATE	Non-Subscribers Cost	SUBJECT	Webinar Type
February 1, 2013	No charge	Shale Markets & Instrumentation	Free
February 7, 2013	$125.00	Valves for Power Plants, Boilers and Water Treatment Facilities	Power
February 14, 2013	$125.00	NO_x Control for Gas Turbines	Power
February 21, 2013	$125.00	Monitoring and Controlling Boiler Steam Cycle Chemistry	Power
February 28, 2013	$125.00	Implementation of the Utility MACT Rule	Power
March 7, 2013	$125.00	HRSG Design, Operation and Maintenance Considerations	Power
March 14, 2013	$125.00	Inlet Air Pretreatment for Gas Turbines	Power
March 21, 2013	$125.00	Industrial Boiler MACT Impact and Control Options	Power
March 28, 2013	$125.00	Mercury Measurement and Control	Power
April 4, 2013	$125.00	Fabric Selection for Particulate Control	Power
April 11, 2013	$125.00	Air Pollution Control for Gas Turbines	Power
April 18, 2013	$125.00	Multi-pollutant Control Technology	Power
April 25, 2013	$125.00	Control Technologies for Fine Particulate Matter	Power
May 2, 2013	$125.00	Flyash Pond and Wastewater Treatment Issues	Power
May 9, 2013	$125.00	Clean Coal Technologies	Power
May 16, 2013	$125.00	Power Plant Automation and Control	Power
May 23, 2013	$125.00	Cooling Towers	Power
May 30, 2013	$400.00	Air Pollution Control Markets (geographic trends, regulatory developments, competition, technology developments)	Market Intelligence
June 6, 2013	$125.00	Report from Power-Gen Europe (update on regulations, speaker and exhibitor highlights)	Power
June 13, 2013	$125.00	Monitoring and Optimizing Fuel Feed, Metering and Combustion in Boilers	Power
June 20, 2013	$125.00	Dry Sorbent Injection and Material Handling for APC	Power
June 27, 2013	$400.00	Power Generation Forecast for Nuclear, Fossil and Renewables	Market Intelligence
July 11, 2013	$125.00	New Developments in Power Plant Air Pollution Control	Power
July 18, 2013	$125.00	Measurement and Control of HCl	Power
July 25, 2013	$125.00	GHG Compliance Strategies, Reduction Technologies and Measurement	Power
August 1, 2013	$125.00	Update on Coal Ash and CCP Issues and Standards	Power
August 8, 2013	$125.00	Improving Power Plant Efficiency and Power Generation	Power
August 15, 2013	$125.00	Control and Treatment Technology for FGD Wastewater	Power
August 22, 2013	$125.00	Status of Carbon Capture and Storage Programs and Technology	Power
August 29, 2013	$125.00	Pumps for Power Plant Cooling Water and Water Treatment Applications	Power

Desalination Flow Control and Treatment Revenues to Exceed $9 Billion by 2020

Desalination plant flow control and treatment expenditures are now just 1.5 percent of the $340 billion dollar flow control and treatment market. While the market as a whole will increase at 5.5 percent, the growth in the desalination sector will be nearly twice as high. These are the conclusions reached by the McIlvaine Company in Air/Gas/Water/Fluid Treatment and Control: World Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Flow control and treatment revenues will grow from $4 billion in 2013 to $9 billion/yr by 2020. The substantial revenue increases are a function of repairs and upgrades as well as new capacity. When the installed base is growing so rapidly, there is a corresponding growth in repair parts and consumables.

Another reason that the flow control and treatment revenues will grow rapidly is the increasing preference for reverse osmosis vs. thermal treatment. The filtration and pre-filtration steps represent a significant portion of the total expenditure when desalination is accomplished with RO.

There are substantial repair part revenues associated with the primary and energy recovery pumps. Valve part revenues are also significant. Dow Chemical benefits with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue generated by replacement of existing RO modules. The company is also replacing alternative pre-treatment filters with UF. Chemical cleaning of the RO system is reduced. The result is a reduction in life cycle costs.

Upgrades to existing thermal systems will generate substantial revenues. Yokogawa Electric completed a project in 2012 to replace the control systems for the boilers, distillation unit and auxiliary facilities at the Shuwaikh seawater desalination plant. The Centum series integrated production control system which makes this plant operation more efficient and reliable. It replaced the aging control systems for three boilers, three distillation units and auxiliary facilities. The Yokogawa Centum series integrated production system controls all plant facilities. Also included were a Prosafe-RS safety instrumented system for the burner management systems on the boilers, a PRM integrated device management software package to monitor plant facilities and predict when maintenance is necessary.

At the Perth Seawater Desalination Plant at Kwinana, Australia Siemens automation technology provided the opportunity to greatly reduce the enormous quantity of copper cabling and connections normally required for a plant of this scale. The quantity of copper has been reduced by using intelligent communications and fibre-optic cable. Much less cable in the plant results in lower capital costs and improved reliability. Using a combination of leading-edge software, hardware and diagnostics, plant operators can predict maintenance needs more efficiently.

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Year	Cumulative Capacity Million m³/day
2005	40
2010	65
2015	100
2020	160