flue gas desulfurization News

China installing more coal-fired boilers and FGD than ROW combined

China continues to plan, install and operate more coal-fired boilers and flue gas desulfurization systems than the rest of the world (ROW) combined. The comprehensive McIlvaine Chinese Utility Plans in English and Chinese document the specific project activity. Most of the new plants are ultra super critical (USC) with the latest air pollution control equipment. Also older plants are being ...

Oct. 21, 2010

By The McIlvaine Company

B&W Awarded Environmental Equipment Contract for Iowa Power Plant

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE:BWC) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract to deliver, erect and commission a dry flue gas desulfurization system for Interstate Power and Light Company’s (IPL) 270 megawatt coal-fired Lansing Generating Station in Lansing, Iowa. IPL is a subsidiary of ...

Mar. 14, 2013

By Babcock & Wilcox

$390 Billion Investment in Coal-fired Boilers Next Year

Power generators will spend $390 billion in 2013 for new coal-fired boilers. Direct costs of equipment will be $260 billion while indirect costs will be $130 billion. This is the latest forecast of the McIlvaine Company in its Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast. There will be a mix of subcritical, supercritical and ultrasupercritical boilers. Most of the units ...

Jun. 6, 2012

By The McIlvaine Company

Dry Scrubbing Market Growing in Many Directions

Most of the market for coal-fired power plant flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is served by wet limestone systems which produce wallboard quality gypsum. However, according to the analysis in FGD Market and Strategies published by the McIlvaine Company, dry scrubbers are starting to gain traction. There are a number of reasons: Concern about water usage particularly in arid areas in ...

Feb. 4, 2015

By The McIlvaine Company

Envirogen and Suez Environnement Create Collaborative Alliance to Deliver Comprehensive, Cost-Effective Water & Wastewater Solutions to the Power Industry

Envirogen Technologies, Inc. announced that it has entered into a Collaborative Alliance with Suez Environnement and will work with the environmental technology leader to deliver comprehensive, cost-effective water and wastewater treatment solutions to the power industry in North America. Effective immediately, the two companies will collaborate exclusively to pursue and execute major ...

May 19, 2015

By Envirogen Technologies Inc.

China’s energy efficiency the target of three new World Bank projects

Three new World Bank-financed projects, approved yesterday, will support China’s effort to improve the country’s efficient use of energy and reduce polluting emissions from power plants. Loans, totaling US$441 million and accounting for almost one third of World Bank lending planned for China in fiscal year 2008, will support the Energy Efficiency Financing Project, co-financed by a Global ...

May 28, 2008

By The World Bank

300 New FGD Projects Planned In China

In the 11th plan from 2006-2010 the six major Chinese utilities will install 300 new SO2 flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. Each of these projects is identified in the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System published by the McIlvaine Company. To put this in perspective, the U.S. is the leading constructor of scrubber systems. But only 222 systems have been installed ...

Nov. 30, 2006

By The McIlvaine Company

Chinese will buy power plant pumps to move 34 million gallons per minute this year

This year China will buy pumps for its power plants which will move more than 34 million gallons per minute of water, fuel oil, and various slurries. The biggest application will be cooling water at coal-fired power plants. Boiler feedwater pump purchases will be small in terms of flow but substantial in price due to the high pressures needed. Forecasts by specific pump application have just been ...

Sep. 2, 2009

By The McIlvaine Company

North America industrial wastewater series—Power generation industry

Equipment for Cooling Tower, Boiler Blowdown, and FGD Purge Streams to Optimize Water Use The power generation industry is the most water-intensive industry in North America. The droughts that some US states have faced present critical challenges for this industry. Facilities must now consider ways of lowering water consumption while ensuring that wastewater meets EPA regulations. This market ...

Oct. 1, 2013

By ReportLinker

US$200bn market for power plant desulfurization systems

Over the next 12 years owners of coal-fired power plants will spend $200 billion dollars to add flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems to existing and new combustion units. This is the latest forecast of the McIlvaine Company in World FGD Markets, an online continually updated report. Over 800,000 MW of coal-fired boilers will be fitted with scrubber systems. Over 2000 units at an average cost ...

Oct. 10, 2008

By The McIlvaine Company

100,000 more pumps will be operated by coal-fired power plants by 2015

Coal-fired power plants throughout the world presently operate 300,000 pumps. This number will increase to over 400,000 by 2015. These pumps will be moving over 1.2 billion gallons/minute. Annual revenues for new pumps will increase from $542 million this year to $776 million in 2015. These are the conclusions reached in the newest expansion of Pumps: World Markets an online publication of the ...

Dec. 4, 2009

By The McIlvaine Company

Power Engineering Magazine Names Projects of the Year Awards Finalists

The editors of Power Engineering magazine and PennWell Corp. have announced nine finalists for the annual Projects of the Year Awards program. The finalists were selected from three major categories: Best Coal-fired Project, Best Gas-fired Project and Best Renewable/Sustainable Project. The Best Nuclear Project category will be replaced this year by a special tribute to the employees of Tokyo ...

Sep. 30, 2011

By PennWell Corporation

$168 Billion FGD Market In Next 15 Years

The market for systems to remove SO2 from power plants is booming. But the big news is that the good times will continue. In the latest forecast in the online, FGD World Markets, the McIlvaine Company predicts that power plants will spend $168 billion for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems in the period 2005-2020. The validity of this estimate is critical to the manufacturers of steel ...

May 31, 2006

By The McIlvaine Company

China will have a major impact on the cost of environmental and energy investments

Whether it's consumables such as activated carbon or SCR catalysts or whether it's big equipment such as reverse osmosis systems or wind turbines, it will be Chinese activity which determines the price. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company based on the forecasts and demand analyses conducted in each of its market reports on water, air and energy subjects. The reality is that ...

Jul. 17, 2009

By The McIlvaine Company

Cleaner air for Arizona after US$400m coal-fired power plant settlement

As part of the fifteenth settlement secured by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Justice to control harmful air pollution from coal-fired power plants, the owner and operator of a plant in St. Johns, Ariz., has agreed to install pollution controls at an estimated cost of US$400 million to reduce harmful emissions and pay a US$950,000 civil penalty. This week's ...

Aug. 13, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Hitachi Power Systems America, Ltd. Awarded Contract with Xcel Energy for SCR Systems

Hitachi Power Systems America, Ltd. (HPSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., today announced that it has been awarded a contract for the design and supply of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Systems including Hitachi’s proprietary catalyst with Xcel Energy for its Hayden Station, Units 1 & 2, located in Routt County in Hayden, Colorado. Terms were not disclosed. ...

Feb. 11, 2013

By Xcel Energy

More than 11,000 control system projects at fossil-fired power plants next year

Existing coal-fired power plants are upgrading to become more cost competitive and reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases. They will account for more than half the 11,250 controls projects which are planned for completion next year at fossil-fired power plants. These are the findings in two McIlvaine publications. Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System and Chinese Utility ...

Apr. 17, 2013

By The McIlvaine Company

Cansolv Technology to Remove SO2 from Major Chinese Coal-fired Power Plant

MONTREAL, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell (NYSE: RDSA) announced today that its Cansolv Technologies Inc. subsidiary (Cansolv) has signed an agreement with Beijing Guodian Longyuan Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. (GDLY) to license a CANSOLV SO2 Scrubbing System for a new 1.2 GW coal-fired power plant to be built by China Guodian Corporation at Duyun in Guizhou province, P.R.C. The ...

Jul. 11, 2011

By Shell Cansolv – Gas absorption solutions

DOE Seeks Projects to Advance Carbon Dioxide Utilization from Coal-Fired Power Plants

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced approximately $6.7 million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and ...

Aug. 25, 2016

By US Department of Energy

DOE to provide US$36m to advance carbon dioxide capture

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it will provide US$36 million for 15 projects aimed at furthering the development of new and cost-effective technologies for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the existing fleet of coal-fired power plants. “Currently, the existing US coal fleet accounts for over half of all electricity generated in this country,” US Secretary of Energy ...

Aug. 1, 2008

By US Department of Energy

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