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Most Coal Plants Have Emissions Controls Needed to Meet Mercury Limits, EIA Reports
Seventy percent of coal-fired power plants have the necessary pollution control equipment to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency mercury and air toxics standards, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Another 6 percent are planning to install pollution controls, and 8 percent are planning to close rather than invest in the expensive equipment, the EIA said in a ...
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Flue gas desulfurization process flow enhanced with Chemineer products
Chemineer offers various products designed to enhance the Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) process flow. Globally, Chemineer is a leading supplier of mixing solutions and products for FGD systems. Thousands of Chemineer agitators are currently operating in FGD service. Due to efficiency and reliability, many of these agitators have been in operation for decades. Chemineer’s experience in ...
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Comparison of Gypsum Dewatering Technologies at Flue Gas Desulfurization Plants
Keywords Flue gas desulfurization plants, wet systems, gypsum dewatering, gypsum recovery, vacuum belt filters, environmental, coal-fired power plant equipment, new technology for coal-fired power plants Abstract Recovering gypsum from flue gas desulfurization (FGD) plants is becoming more important as the technical feasibility of substituting FGD gypsum for natural gypsum in traditional ...
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Removing heavy metals from power plant wastewater to meet EPA regulations
Two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, intertwined and consistently in flux, are having an impact on waste streams in power plants. Important power plant wastewater regulations include Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELGs) for flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and limitations for coal combustion residuals (CCRs) for coal ash ponds. Coal-fired utilities are looking for solutions ...
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China spending much more on FGD and other air pollution control than the US
Chinese suppliers of flue gas desulfurization systems have installed or have orders for plants with the total electrical capacity of over 500,000 MW. This compares to only 180,000 MW in the U.S. China is operating 379,000 MW of scrubbers compared to only 130,000 MW in the U.S. China has these FGD scrubbers on 67 percent of the coal-fired plants which is a higher percentage than the U.S. This ...
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Chemineer HT & HTM high-torque agitators are ideal for demanding processes
The Chemineer HT & HTM High-Torque Agitators offer proven, reliable performance in demanding processes such as chemical reactors, fermentations, gas dispersion, polymer reactors, flue gas desulfurization, mining and waste treatment. Torque ratings are up to 1.3 million in-lbs. (1,000 hp+) for the HT, 2.5 million in-lbs. (2,000 hp+) for the HTM parallel shaft design and 7 million in-lbs. ...
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Chemineer HT & HTM High-Torque Mixers are ideal for demanding processes
The Chemineer HT & HTM High-Torque Mixers offer proven, reliable performance in demanding processes such as chemical reactors, fermentations, gas dispersion, polymer reactors, flue gas desulfurization, mining and waste treatment. Torque ratings are up to 1.3 million in-lbs. (1,000 hp+) for the HT, 2.5 million in-lbs. (2,000 hp+) for the HTM parallel shaft design and 7 million in-lbs. (5,000 hp+) ...
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Main equipment of a waste tire pyrolysis machine
Waste tire pyrolysis machine can crack waste tires to get fuel oil by high temperature heating, which can be used in steel factories, cement factories, heavy oil machinery, generators and boiler heating, etc. The main equipment of waste tire pyrolysis system include pyrolysis reactor system, oil and gas cooling system, environmental protection system(exhaust gas purification and odor removal ...
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Top 10 Companies Supply 20 Percent of the World’s Valves
The world market for industrial valves in 2006 was $43 billion. The top 10 companies accounted for 20 percent of the total. The rankings of 159 valve companies have been compiled by the McIlvaine Company and included in Industrial Valves: World Markets, an online continually updated 40,000 page report. Tyco is the largest supplier and with sales of $2.4 billion (6 percent market share). ...
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Top 10 Companies Supply 50 Percent Of The World’s Pumps
The world market for industrial pumps in 2006 was $29 billion. The top 10 companies accounted for 50 percent of the total. The rankings of 457 pump companies have been compiled by the McIlvaine Company and included in Pumps: World Markets, an online continually updated 40,000 page report. ITT is the largest supplier and with sales of $2.7 billion (9 percent market share). ...
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EPA Evaluation Finds Use of Coal Ash in Concrete and Wallboard Appropriate
Using a newly developed methodology, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released its evaluation of the two largest beneficial uses of encapsulated coal combustion residuals (CCR or coal ash): use in concrete as a substitute for portland cement, and the use of flue gas desulfurization gypsum as a substitute for mined gypsum in wallboard. EPA’s evaluation concluded that the ...
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Liquid macrofiltration market to exceed $6 billion annual revenues next year
The market for filtration and equipment classified as “macrofiltration” will exceed $6 billion next year up from $5.6 billion this year. Of this total, $4.6 billion will be equipment and $1.4 billion of the revenues will be generated from media and cloth sales. Macrofiltration is distinct from cartridges in that macrofiltration devices such as filter presses, gravity filters and belt ...
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Industrial Valve Market to Exceed $70 Billion By 2019
The sales of industrial valves will exceed $70 billion in 2019. This is the latest prediction of the McIlvaine Company in Industrial Valves: World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) East Asia will account for 33 percent of the total market. NAFTA will be a distant second with sales of less than $13 billion. The rapidly growing market in Asia is shaped by a number of factors. Investment in ...
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Coal will Generate 77 Percent of the flow control and treatment revenues in the $45 Billion Power Market
In 2013 power plants around the world will invest over $45 billion in flow control and treatment equipment. Seventy-seven percent of this total will be utilized in coal-fired power plants. The next largest segment, which is gas turbines, will account for less than 10 percent of the total. These are the conclusions reached by aggregating the forecasts in a number of McIlvaine market reports ...
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Marsulex awarded contract by sunbury generation for design, supply and installation of flue gas desulfurization system
Marsulex Inc. (TSX: MLX) announced today that Marsulex Environmental Technologies (“MET”) has been awarded a contract by Sunbury Generation LP (“Sunbury”) to design, supply and install a wet flue gas desulfurization (“FGD”) system at its 400 megawatt Sunbury Power Plant complex in Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. MET will supply technology, engineering and erection of the FGD system. MET’s project ...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. Launches New Mercury Control Product
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. ("ME2C" or the "Company"), a leader in mercury emissions control in North America, announced today that it is adding a new product to its proven, cost-effective mercury capture program that will reduce mercury emissions by preventing scrubber reemission events. The product is specifically designed for coal-fired power utilities with wet scrubbers to help remove ...
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EPA expects to revise rules for wastewater discharges from power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water. Wastewater discharged from coal ash ponds, air pollution control equipment, and other equipment at power plants can contaminate drinking water sources, cause fish and other wildlife to die and create other ...
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New Rotabed Patented `Fluidized Bed` Scrubber Designed To Provide Ultra High Efficiency Gas Absorption And Particulate Collection In A Space-Saving Designs
Bionomic Industries, Inc., an industry leading manufacturer of proven air pollution abatement, product and heat recovery technologies, has announced availability of their new RotaBed patented “Fluidized Bed” Scrubber. Designed to handle gas capacities from 500 through 250,000 acfm, RotaBed’s superior performance comes from a unique swirl induced Coriolis grid that achieves much ...
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Significant Changes in FGD Technology are Predicted
Over 80 percent of the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems installed around the world utilize limestone as a reagent and spray towers to recirculate the limestone slurry and capture the SO2. The McIlvaine Company predicts that after forty years of use, this approach will give way to newer technologies. These technologies will achieve higher efficiencies, consume less energy, capture multiple ...
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Revolution in decision making for power plant scrubber projects
A variety of constantly changing factors make selection of the best flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems, components, and services very difficult. A new service “FGD Decisions” now available from the McIlvaine Company greatly simplifies the task through a decision tree, sophisticated networking, and support intelligence. The decision tree draws on all the world's FGD information and ...
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