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An additional $1 billion/yr will be spent for intermittent stack sampling. An even larger market will be created for optimisation systems which integrate the signals of emissions analyzers to meet regulatory requirements while maximising process efficiency and minimizing life cycle costs. Tese are the latest forecasts in the McIlvaine
Company’s Air Pollution Monitoring and Sampling: World Markets.
Te biggest single market is coal-fired boilers in Asia. Large numbers of new plants will need stack monitoring systems to measure SO2 CO and O2
are retrofitting SO2
will require adding additional sets of monitors to existing stack systems.
US cement plants will spend over $60 million to upgrade their CEM systems over the next two years. Tey will need to install analysers to measure mercury, hydrocarbons, HCl and particulate. Cement plants in developing countries provide opportunities for the sales of opacity monitors. Coal-fired power plants in the US have already
spent over $200 million to measure mercury. Now with pending air toxic rules, they will need to measure HCl and organics. HCl monitors cost more than $100,000 each. So this market alone will be over $80 million. In Europe as well as the US there will be an expanding market for continuous emissions monitors to measure greenhouse gases including CO2
and
methane. Fossil-fired power plants, cement kilns, and waste-to-energy plants will need to provide accurate measurement of these emissions. Te ambient market includes government networks needed to ascertain air quality throughout an area. Te biggest markets for these systems will be in the developing countries. Tere is also a need for fence-line monitoring at energy, mining and chemical facilities. Te market for stack and ambient intermittent sampling services is equal to the equipment market. Some pollutants such as SO2
and NOx
can be measured with a minimum of sophisticated equipment. However, mercury, toxic organics and some other pollutants require extensive equipment and considerable technical competence. Tere is considerable potential for additional
services to measure air toxics from major US sources. Tese sources are required to report emissions of hundreds of individual pollutants annually, but there is no enforcement of precise measurement. Tere are relatively few companies making the more technically advanced analysers. TermoFisher and Teledyne are examples of these companies. Tey tend to be international. Substantial research is required for each instrument developed. Expensive validation may be required in both the US and Europe. Tis creates a barrier of entry for smaller competitors.
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. In addition, a number of Chinese plants and NOx reduction systems. Tis
Te stack sampling companies are generally smaller and have limited geographic scope. Tousands of these companies are competing for the smaller projects. Coal-fired power plants, waste-to-energy plants and other large complex facilities require a number of testers for any project. As a result, there are relatively few testing companies competing for this business.
Industrial valves Te world market for industrial valves will grow from $44 billion this year to $52 billion in 2015. Tis is the latest forecast in Industrial Valves: World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. Te biggest growth will be in power and wastewater in East Asia. Te west Asian market will grow by 50 percent during the period. Te market in Western Europe will only grow by 6 per cent during the period. Control valves are the leading product segment.
Tere is increasing demand for ‘smart valves’ which can communicate conditional and operational information remotely. Te nuclear industry has again become a growth market for valve suppliers. Te newest reactor designs use fewer valves than existing ones. However the life extension programs at existing nuclear plants provide a substantial revenue stream. Some markets are growing while others are
shrinking. Valves for regasification facilities in the US were a big potential a few years ago. Now the potential lies in gas shale. Many valves are required during the shale fracturing and gas extraction phases. Asia is the dominant market for valves used in semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing. It is also the big market for valves for new cement plants. However there is a big retrofit potential at existing US cement plants. Tese plants need to comply with a new air toxic rule. Tis will result in purchases of knife gate valves for scrubber systems, control valves for pulsing new fabric filters, and rotary valves for new pneumatic conveying equipment.
Te large number of new coal-fired power plants planned in Asia will drive the market for valves used with super critical coal-fired boilers. China is also leading the development of coal-to-liquids. At one time the Sasol coal-to-liquids plant in South Africa with 180,000 valves was the leading user of valves in the world.
Carbon sequestration is at the development stage
but even now there is a substantial valve market. Valve purchases for the billion dollar plant demonstrating Oxyfuel combustion in Illinois will need to begin within the year. Valves for the Saskpower project could be ordered as early as January 2011. Te valve market is served by 37 global suppliers
with more than $100 million in valve sales and by 7,000 smaller companies. Te top four suppliers enjoy valve sales over $1 billion each. Tere are only eight suppliers with valves sales in excess of $500 million. l
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