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 $7 billion in 2017. This is the latest forecast in
Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets, published by the
McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
($ Millions)
Continent |
2017 |
Total |
7,128 |
Africa |
236 |
America |
1,778 |
Asia |
3,848 |
Europe |
1,266 |
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.
For more information on
Liquid Filtration and Media World Markets,
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/118-n006.
$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 NOx
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 NOx analyzers to determine
both the raw NOx as well as the NOx 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.
For more information on Air and Water Monitoring World Market, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/106-n031.
$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
Table of Contents
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
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MicroCoal® Technologies building Coal Upgrading Facility at Power
Plant in Kalimantan, Indonesia
GAS/OIL - US
GAS/OIL – WORLD
BIOMASS
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
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“Selecting FGD Scrubber Materials” was the Hot Topic on December 19, 2013
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January 9, 2014 |
Air Pre-heaters & Heat
Exchangers |
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January 16, 2014 |
Corrosion Issues and Materials
for APC Systems |
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February 6, 2014 |
Review of EUEC |
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February 13, 2014 |
Impact of Ambient Air Quality
Rules on Fossil-fueled Boilers
and Gas Turbines |
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February 27, 2014 |
NOx Catalyst
Performance on Mercury and SO3
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March 13, 2014 |
Industrial Boiler Fuel Options:
Coal, biomass or gas?
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March 27 |
Mercury control and removal |
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April 10 |
NOx and ammonia slip measurement
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