China Pump Market to Exceed $9 Billion Next Year
The Chinese market for pumps is growing rapidly as is the ability to supply them
domestically. Industrial pump sales in China will exceed $9 billion in 2015
according to the latest forecasts in Pumps World Market published by the
McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
China Pump Market ($ Millions)
Subject 2015
Total 9,100
Centrifugal 6,701
Diaphragm 765
Reciprocating 612
Rotary 1,022
The exports exceed imports by approximately $1 billion, so total industrial pump
production is over $10 billion. Higher technology pumps are produced by
international joint ventures and obtained by imports. There are 20 large
domestic producers accounting for sales of just under $2 billion.
Some of the joint venture international companies are exporting pumps from
China. As a result, the sales by this group are several billion dollars per
year.
The energy sector will contribute to much of the growth in the coming years.
China has embarked on a huge coal to chemicals and fuels program. If all the
planned projects were to be completed, China would be converting 10 percent of
the coal produced in the world into synthetic natural gas, gasoline and
chemicals. The larger plants will use more than 20,000 pumps each.
China continues to build new coal-fired power plants at the rate of 50,000 MW
per year. Existing power plants are being retrofitted with NOx control. These
retrofits require pumps for ammonia injection. Expenditures for flue gas
desulfurization are larger than the expenditures at all the countries of Europe
combined. These systems require both water and slurry pumps.
The infrastructure investment also continues at a high pace. New municipal
drinking water and municipal wastewater plants are accommodating the migrants to
the cities. The construction of generic pharmaceutical plants by international
companies is also fueling the pump market growth. China is also a leading
purchaser of equipment for semiconductor and other electronic plants.
For more information on Pumps World Market, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/116-n019
U.S. Market for Gas Turbine System Components Shaped By Regulations and
Economics
Some utilities will have to build new gas turbine plants and retire coal-fired
power plants just to meet the new CO2 limits. Some new gas turbine plants will
not include major components because they will be constructed at existing
coal-fired power plants which will be retired. New components will be sold to
existing gas turbine plants which were formerly operated just for peaking
purposes and will now be operated under base load conditions. These activities
are chronicled in Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Supplier Program published by the
McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Ameren says it will need to add 1,200 MW of combined cycle natural gas
generation by 2020 in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s
proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change. While the
utility says its internal plans already called for more natural gas, it said the
EPA proposal’s timeline would require more new power plants sooner than
necessary and lead to rate hikes of 10 to 15 percent by 2020.
The new gas-fired power plants would come online around the same time Ameren
plans to retire its coal-fired 840-MW Meramec power plant in south St. Louis
County. But that retirement wouldn’t reduce the utility’s rate of carbon
emissions without new, lower-carbon generation offsetting it. Building that
amount of new capacity would cost roughly $2 billion and require at least four
combined cycle gas-fired power plants.
The decision to build gas turbine plants at existing coal sites to some extent
is influenced by alternative choices. The Xcel Black Dog Minnesota plant is an
example. Calpine is countering the proposal to replace 235 MW of coal capacity
at this plant with gas turbines by proposing to expand the Mankato plant by 350
MW.
Kentucky Cane Run 7 coal-fired power plant will be replaced by Siemens
SGT5-5000F turbines which will generate 660 MW in a Black & Veatch design and
build project. With more than 100 coal-fired power plants scheduled for
retirement, the question arises as to how much of the existing plant can
continue to be used with the switch to gas. In some cases there is just a fuel
switch and no change to the balance of plant. Where a new turbine is installed,
the existing cooling, boiler feed water and wastewater systems are often more
than adequate for the new conditions.
The Florida Power Crystal River coal plants 1&2 will be retired when the first
820 MW of the 1640 MW combined cycle plant comes on line in 2018.
Coal is not the only fuel being replaced with GTCC. Some oil-fired plants are
being retired. There is even a biomass plant considering a switch to gas.
Southern Power's biomass plant in Sacul, Texas was no sooner in operation in
2012 that competition from natural gas surfaced. A guaranteed 20-year contract
with the City of Austin keeps the plant open even though the city is buying
primarily cheaper natural gas. Southern Power wants to remain competitive,
potentially at the Sacul site. “So ultimately we'll build for our customers
needs, but the applications speak to a gas-fired facility because there's piping
in that area available,” said Jeannice Hall, the senior media relations
strategist with Southern Company.
For more information on the Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program,
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/28-energy/610-59ei.
Headlines for Utility E-Alert –September 12, 2014
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1191 – September 12, 2014
Table of Contents
COAL - US
• Dynegy MATS Controls
• Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation to meet MATS
• Met Announces Licensee WFGD Awards in China
• Emerson Process Management named Contractor for Comprehensive Controls
Replacement Project
• Compromise Proposal for Cholla Coal-fired Power Plant in Arizona
COAL – WORLD
• L&T secures Rs. 5100 Crore Supercritical Power Plant order from MP State
Utility, India
• Dubai shortlists Eight Companies for 1,200 MW Clean Coal-fired Power Plant
• NTPC to develop 4,000 MW Coal-fired Power Project in Visakhapatnam, India
GAS/OIL – US
• EPA rejects Power Plant Opponents' Appeal
• Fluor completes New Gas-fired Power Plant in Texas
GAS/OIL - WORLD
• Symbion Power commits US $900 Million to Tanzania-Gas to-Power Plant
• Palestine: EOI for EPC Tender of PPGC 450 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant
• Foster Wheeler to supply HRSGs for Hail Power Plant
• Iran to partner with Russia to build Eight Thermal Power Plants in Iran
NUCLEAR
• Sendai Nuclear Power Plant receives Regulatory OK to restart
• Areva to develop Prototype Panels for Fusion Nuclear Reactor
• China is sole bidder for New Nuclear Reactors in Romania
BUSINESS
• Game Changers for the Air/Water Treatment and Flow Market
• The Asian Market for Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) Systems, Repair Parts
and Service will exceed $11 Billion in 2015
• Yara acquires STRABAG
HOT TOPIC HOUR
• Variable Speed Drives can save Billions of Dollars in meeting 316B – Hot Topic
Hour September 11
• “Monitoring for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot Topic Webinar
on September 18 at 10 a.m. Central
• Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
For more information on the Utility Tracking System, click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/2-uncategorised/89-42ei
“Water Treatment Chemicals for Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants” - Hot
Topic Webinar on September 25 at 10:00 a.m. Central
This webinar will be both organizational and informative. It is all part of a
whole knowledge system for gas turbine combined cycle plant operators - Gas
Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions. The free website and periodic webinars
empower the operators to buy the best products rather than the most familiar or
least expensive.
The webinar on the 25th will try to answer the question: What are the most
important and difficult decisions you will have to make regarding treatment
chemicals? On August 28 we conducted a webinar on Degasification and
Demineralization. One of the discussions was on Improving Silica Removal by EDI
and GTM by Michael Snow, Snowpure. Is there a need for a treatment chemical to
compliment the EDI and GTM?
Another discussion was on Control of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion in Steam
Generators by Brad Buecker, Kiewit - Hot Topic Hour 8-28-14. Is there chemical
treatment to reduce FAC as well?
Panelists:
Jeffrey Tate, President of Agape Water Solutions
Roger Light, Ultrapure Water Specialist at Dow Chemical
Colleen M. Layman, Water Specialist at HDR Engineering, Inc.
Brad Buecker, Specialist/Process at Kiewit Power Engineers
Tom Muilenberg, Senior Manager, Industrial Sales at MIOX Corporation
Daniel C. Sampson, Principal Consultant Power/Water/Wastewater at WorleyParsons
, Inc./ Energy & Chemical
These are the types of pertinent questions that the operators want answered.
Others would be:
With fast start HRSGS and constant cycling what chemical additions will counter
some of the negative consequences of this operating mode?
If use ACC instead of wet cooling and have increased iron content how do you
solve this problem?
What are the water chemistry issues facing GTCC operators which are unique to
this type of power generation?
What are the chemical treatment needs if zero liquid discharge technology is
mandated?
What are the chemical treatment recommendations if treated municipal wastewater
is selected for the cooling or even the boiler feedwater?
How do you keep fogging nozzles from plugging and also prevent introduction of
contaminants which will cause turbine blade build up?
What other questions are GTCC operators asking? This webinar is free for power
plants?
Click here to view schedule and register
McIlvaine Hot Topic Hour Registration
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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 $300.00 for non-subscribers.
See below for information on upcoming Hot Topic Hours. We welcome your input
relative to suggested additions.
SUBJECT
September
25 Power Plant Water Treatment Chemicals
October
2 Precipitator Improvements
16 Power Plant CEMS
23 Sediment Removal and Remediation
30 Coal-fired Power Plant NOx Reduction Innovations
November
6 Power Plant Cooling
13 Boiler Feedwater Treatment
December
18 Power Plant Pump Innovations
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