Liquid Macrofiltration Market to Exceed $7 Billion By 2017

The market for filters in the macrofiltration category will rise from $6 billion last year to over $7 billion in 2017.  This is the latest forecast in Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets, published by the McIlvaine Company.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

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The growth will be fueled by Asian demand.  By 2017, well over 50 percent of the sales will be for use in China and other Asian countries.  Macrofilters are widely used by municipal water treatment plants, municipal sewage treatment operators, power generators, steel mills, chemical plants and pulp mills. There is much more construction of these facilities in Asia than on other continents.

Macrofiltration needs to be distinguished from cartridge filtration and from cross-flow filtration. McIlvaine has a separate cartridge report and another on reverse osmosis and other cross-flow membranes. Cartridge filtration involves disposable filters.  Cross-flow filtration utilizes membranes, but is distinguished primarily by the fact that only a portion of the incoming liquid is filtered and the balance moves across the filtration surface and remains unfiltered.

Macrofiltration includes those filters not part of the other two categories. Gravity media filters, filter presses, automatic backwash filters, belt filter presses and bag filters are all included in the macrofiltration category.  The filter presses, gravity belt filters and bag filters can be used to separate products from liquids and are, therefore, used in food and chemical processing.

Belt filter presses are widely used to dewater sewage sludge. Gravity belt filters are typically used to separate gypsum in flue gas desulfurization systems.  Gravity media filters including those with sand and synthetic media are used in water treatment.  Automatic backwash filters are increasingly used an alternative to cartridges. The efficiency is limited to particles in excess of 1 microns. The advantage is the fact that the units are self cleaning.

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$425 Million Will Be Spent To Monitor Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Plants This Year

In 2014, the total market for air and water monitoring including field and laboratory instruments will exceed $22 billion. Of this total, $2.6 billion will be spent by the power industry. In this segment, more than $350 million will be spent for air, water, liquid and gas measurement at gas turbine and combined cycle plants.  Industrial gas turbine operators provide an additional market. Seventy-five million will be spent by the oil and gas extraction and processing, refining and other industrial operators of gas turbines for their monitoring needs.  These forecasts segmented for each country are displayed in Air and Water Monitoring World Market, published by the McIlvaine Company.  (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

This year, 75,000 MW of new utility electrical generating turbines will be added to a world base of 1,100,000 MW already installed.   In addition, a large number of smaller turbines will be purchased by industrial plants which are generating electricity and steam or are compressing gases and use gas turbines to provide the compression power. 

One of the fastest growing industrial sectors is the application of gas turbines for landfill and sewage plant biogas.  These plants require the measurement of formaldehyde or other organic compounds.  Measurement of H₂S is also required.  Some utility and industrial operators burn oil.  Those units burning fuel oil as a secondary fuel typically need to install SO₂ monitors. 

Nearly all the turbines regardless of the application must measure NO_x continuously.  In some cases this can be done with predictive systems, but more typically is accomplished with continuous emissions monitoring systems.   It is also often necessary to install selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems which use ammonia as a reagent.   Continuous measurement of the ammonia slip is necessary for both control and regulatory goals.  It is also necessary to install a second set of NO_x analyzers to determine both the raw NO_x as well as the NO_x in the stack.

In the simple cycle mode, it is often necessary to add tempering air prior to the selective catalytic reduction systems.  Measurement of gas flow and temperature is, therefore, required at multiple locations.

Some turbines are operated in the simple cycle mode, so no water is necessary for cooling condensate.  However, even these units require fogging or inlet air cooling systems using deionized water.  Hence, monitoring water quality is necessary.  For combined cycle operation, dry cooling is becoming more popular. However, the vast majority of systems use wet cooling towers.   Companies such as Nalco and GE have automated chemistry systems to measure the parameters and add chemicals to maximize the number of times the water can be recycled.

The cooling water blowdown requires measurement of pollutant levels before and after final purification.  Zero liquid discharge systems are becoming popular.  These require various filtration and evaporation steps, all with air and water monitoring requirements.

Monitoring the feedwater and the condensate where heat recovery steam generators are utilized requires very accurate monitors for dissolved oxygen, flow, pH and other parameters.

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 $700 Million Will Be Spent For Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals in Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Power Plants This Year

In 2014, the total market for water and wastewater treatment chemicals will exceed $25 billion. Of this total, $4.9 billion will be spent by the power industry. The biggest segment will be coal-fired power. The nuclear segment will also be significant. The gas-fired segment will be close in size to nuclear.  More than $700 million will be spent for treatment chemicals in gas turbine and combined cycle power plants.  This includes the generators in the large utility plants, but also those used in oil and gas extraction and processing, refining and by other industrial operators.  These forecasts segmented by region and then by 80 countries and sub regions are displayed and updated continually in Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market, published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)

Seventy-five thousand MW of new utility electrical generating turbines will be added this year to a world base of 1,100,000 MW already installed.   In addition, a large number of smaller turbines will be purchased by industrial plants which are generating electricity and steam or are compressing gases and use gas turbines to provide the compression power. 

Many gas turbines are operated in conjunction with a steam turbine in the combined cycle mode. Treatment chemicals are used to purify the water which will be used to make steam, to prevent corrosion and scaling in the steam cycle and to treat the raw water which will be used for cooling.  The blowdown from the cooling cycle must also be treated.

Some turbines are operated in the simple cycle mode, so no water is necessary for cooling.  However, even these units require fogging or inlet air cooling systems using deionized water.  Hence, water treatment is necessary.  For combined cycle operation dry cooling is becoming more popular. However, the vast majority of systems use wet cooling towers.   Companies such as Nalco and GE have automated chemistry systems to measure the parameters and add chemicals to maximize the number of times the water can be recycled.

The cooling water blowdown requires treatment chemicals. Zero liquid discharge systems are becoming popular.  These require various filtration and evaporation steps all with water treatment chemical requirements.

For more information on Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market, click on:  http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/27-water/449-n026-water-and-wastewater-treatment-chemicals

Headlines for the December 20, 2013 – Utility E-Alert      

UTILITY E-ALERT 

#1155– December 20, 2013

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COAL – US

• Hitachi signs SCR Catalyst Supply Agreement with AEP
• Court of Appeals upholds State Permits for Emission Controls at Monroe
• Wolverine drops Plans for Coal-fired CFB Power Plant in Michigan
• Dunkirk to Repower with Gas
• We Energies, Wolverine to end Joint Venture at Presque Isle Power Plant

COAL – WORLD

• GSECL to build 800 MW Wanakbori Unit in Gujarat, India
• Trombay 6 (Maharashtra, India) to burn Coal
• Dominican Republic building 2x385 MW Power Plant

§  MicroCoal^® Technologies building Coal Upgrading Facility at Power Plant in Kalimantan, Indonesia

• Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company to build 2x300 MW Coal-fired Power Plant using Thar Coal (Pakistan)
• Alstom to supply Equipment for 500 MW Neyveli Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India
• SEPCOIII to build 1320 MW Power Plant in Chittagong, Bangladesh

GAS/OIL - US

• Bayles Energy proposes Power Plant in Greene County, PA
• WPS chooses Fox Energy Center as Preferred Site for Possible 500 MW Power Plant
• Siemens to provide H Class Gas Turbines for Patriot
• Black Hills Colorado to build 40 MW Power Plant at Pueblo Airport

GAS/OIL – WORLD

• Siemens to build 414 MW San Gabriel Power Plant in Philippines
• Metito to provide Water System for Suez Power Plant in Egypt
• Azura Power to build 950 MW Power Plant in Edo State, Nigeria

• 2x25 MW Korangi to be converted to Combined Cycle Operation (Pakistan)
• Wood Group completes Maintenance and Optimization for Jamaican Power Station
• Stellar Energy supplies TIAC System for 540 MW Mexico City Power Plant
• APR to build 40 MW Mobile Gas Turbine Project in Angola
• PSG to Supply Steam Cycle Equipment for 280 MW Combined Cycle Addition at Erbil Power Plant in Iraq

BIOMASS

• Eggborough will not convert to Biomass-firing after denied Government Subsidies

 NUCLEAR

• Indonesia Plans Sites for Nuclear Power Plant
• India to lay Foundation Stone for Gorakhpur Nuclear Reactor in Early January

BUSINESS

• Clean Coal Solutions to begin Operations of Five Additional Refined Coal Facilities in Early 2014
• 100,000 Companies Supply or Specify Flow and Treatment Products and Services
• Gas Turbine Expenditures to Exceed $106 Billion In 2014

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§  “Selecting FGD Scrubber Materials” was the Hot Topic on December 19, 2013

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