Market for Particle Separation from Liquids Will Exceed $46 Billion This Year
Revenues from the sales of filters and gravity separation equipment and media
will exceed $46 billion this year. Nearly half the total will be generated in
the cartridge segment. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company by
aggregating its forecasts in four of its market reports.
2012 World Revenues for Particle Separation Equipment and Media
Product
|
$ Billions |
Cartridge |
21 |
Sedimentation/Centrifugation |
8 |
Cross-flow Membranes |
10 |
Macrofiltration |
7 |
Subtotal |
46 |
The cartridge market is split between hydraulic fluid and mobile at $7 billion
and stationary at $14 billion. A substantial portion of the stationary market is
residential and includes the carbon block filters in purification of water used
in ice making as well as the cartridges used in pitchers.
A substantial portion of the sedimentation and centrifugation market is in the
municipal sector. Clarifiers and thickeners are used to purify drinking water
and to separate sewage in wastewater plans. The decanter centrifuges are widely
used for dewatering sewage sludge. The pharmaceutical, chemical and food
industries are the biggest users of the disc type centrifuge which owes it
evolution to the original milk separator.
Cross-flow membrane revenues are growing at higher rates than revenues in the
other segments. Desalination of seawater is the biggest application. However,
the combination of membranes and biological treatment in the membrane bioreactor
is proving to be a cost effective way to treat municipal wastewater. It
has been widely used in the food industry as well.
Macrofiltration is a category which includes belt filter presses, sand filters,
bag filters and drum filters. It also includes automatic backwashing
filters. The rapidly increasing popularity of this design is due to the small
unit size and ability to compete with cartridges and bag filters. The advantage
is that the filters are self cleaning.
Asia is the leading purchaser of particle separation equipment. China is rapidly
becoming a major producer both of equipment and media.
For more information on the individual reports comprising these totals, click
on:
Cartridge Filters: World Market
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/water.html#nO24
Liquid Filtration and Media World Market:
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n006
RO, UF, MF World Market
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#no20
Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets,
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#n005
Air and Water Monitoring Terms - Decisive Classification Needed
Analyzers to measure constituents in various gases and fluids are each designed
for specific chemicals or physical properties. Since there are hundreds of
different chemicals and many physical properties, there are many unique
instrument designs. Laboratory instruments vary considerably from those used by
field testers or those used for continuous measurement in processes. There
are many different operating principles employed. Instruments used for
stack gas measurement differ from those used at the fence line or those used for
water or process fluids. The end result is that there are thousands of unique
instruments.
There are more than 5,000 suppliers of instruments to measure gases and fluids
worldwide. There are 3,000 instrument makers in China alone. Given the language
inconsistencies, it is a real challenge to determine which of these companies
make an instrument which fits the specific needed criteria.
The McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
is developing a system which it will make available free of charge to anyone. In
return, it is asking for input to make the system better. Associations,
suppliers and research institutions all have niche expertise which can be
applied both to the technology and the languages. Here are the details:
A decisive classification system in Chinese, English and other languages will
allow monitor purchasers in developing countries to efficiently utilize the
world’s existing knowledge. Monitoring products need to be classified by the way
decisions are made. For example, the new U.S. MATS rule utilizes PM mass
monitors as a surrogate for measuring toxic metals. However, Pall was able to
convince EPA that their multi-metals analyzer was a cost effective alternative.
Scientific classification does not typically list PM mass monitors and
multi-metals analyzers as siblings but Decisive Classification does in this
instance.
The system identifies monitoring products by application (there is a big
difference between shale oil and oil shale), function (analyzer, sample system,
etc.) medium (ambient air, stack gas), properties measured, (ammonia, arsenic),
measurement parameters (ppb, ppm, count) operating principle (optical,
electrochemical) and mode of use (handheld, portable, etc.).
It is also necessary to identify financial entities and their subsidiaries with
unique numbers. Each subsidiary with unique products should have its own unique
number. It is further necessary to provide the listings in Chinese,
English and other languages.
Entity |
Identification
Number |
Entity Name in Chinese |
Andritz |
963 |
佛山安德里茨技术有限公 |
Andritz KMPT |
963-01 |
? |
Andritz Pulp & Paper |
963-02 |
? |
Andritz Separation |
963-03 |
? |
|
|
|
Details on this initiative and instructions for participating are found at:
Decisive Classification Initiative for Monitoring products and services.
AIR & WATER POLLUTION
MONITORING NEWSLETTER
May 2012
No. 391
Table of Contents
MARKETS
SUPPLIER ANALYSIS
WATER NEWS
AIR NEWS
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OTC EXHIBITORS
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