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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

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

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

$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

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.

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

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

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

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