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$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 ...
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Extended study for sugar factory in Escaudoeuvres
The orders from the French sugar giant Tereos are now coming in one after the other. The latest order is for a 120 MW coal fired boiler at a sugar factory in Escaudoeuvres in northern France. This is a similar study as the one for Lillers, also owned by Tereos. The boiler will be investigated using CFD simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics), both in current configuration and with an Ecotube ...
By Ecomb AB
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EPA Air Rule Defies Unanimous Supreme Court Decision
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - A supplemental rulemaking that would allow coal-fired power plants to increase their emissions when they add new generating capacity was proposed Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The proposal would exempt coal-fired power plants from installing the best available pollution controls when upgrading their facilities to produce more power. The ...
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Lumex Instruments is taking part in 13th Multi-pollutant emissions from coal workshop (MEC13)
Lumex Instruments experts will present a paper on universal tool for mercury determination in combustion plants at MEC13 workshop which will take place on May 21-23 in Krakow, Poland. Lumex Instruments and Ohio Lumex representatives will talk about RA-915 mercury analyzers, US EPA toolkit, which is recommended by UN Environment as a Best Available Techniques (BAT) for mercury emissions ...
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NRDC Analysis: `Gang of Eight` Utilities Spent Millions Lobbying and Litigating Against EPA Action While Pollution Contributes to Over 10,000 Deaths
On Eve of Inhofe Vote to Repeal EPA Mercury Standards, "Price of Pollution Politics" Links Emissions to Lobbying Efforts by AEP, Ameren, DTE Energy, Energy Future Holdings, FirstEnergy, GenOn, PPL and Southern Company – Headquarters in GA, IL, MI, OH, PA and TX. WASHINGTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --As eight leading U.S. utilities spent millions of dollars lobbying and ...
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At last some common sense on the fight against global warming
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its latest report on climate change in April. In addition to actions such as a four-fold increase in solar, wind, nuclear and carbon-capture and storage, the IPCC state that replacing coal-fired stations with modern gas-fired generation would “significantly reduce” greenhouse gas ...
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EPA extends public comment on mercury and air toxics standards/extension will have no impact on timeline for finalizing standards
In response to requests from members of Congress and to encourage additional public comment, EPA today extended the timeline for public input by 30 days on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards, an extension that will not alter the timeline for issuing the final standards in November 2011. “EPA will put these long-overdue standards in effect in November, as planned. In our effort ...
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Dirtiest Power Plants in the USA Named
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2007 (ENS) - Nevada Power's Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant has a higher emission rate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than any other power plant in the United States, according to a new ranking issued today by the Environmental Integrity Project. The report ranks the 378 largest power plants in the country based on company-reported data. When it comes to total ...
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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 ...
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New York Subpoenas Five Energy Companies for Climate Risks
ALBANY, New York, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Friday sent subpoenas to five of the nation's largest energy companies, demanding that they disclose the financial risks of their greenhouse gas emissions to shareholders, specifically to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Attorney General Cuomo sent letters to the top executives of AES Corporation, ...
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Air pollution monitoring market to rise 20% in 2010, says new research
The world market for stack and ambient continuous monitoring plus periodic monitoring and other related services will rise to US$2.2 billion in 2010. This is a 20 percent increase over the projected 2009 market. The rapid expansion in CO2 measurement investment and the increased activity for stack monitoring in Asia will account for most of the increase. These are the conclusions reached in ...
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United States files clean air act complaint against Homer City power plant
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a Clean Air Act complaint on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against the owners and operators of the Homer City Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant in Homer City, Indiana County, Pa. The facility, located at 1750 Power Plant Rd., is operated by EME Homer City Generation L.P. and currently owned by eight individual limited ...
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The Market for Mercury Removal will be Growing Robustly in the Next Decade
Recent estimates of annual global mercury emissions from both natural and anthropogenic sources are in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 metric tons per year. These estimates include mercury that is re-emitted. The U.S. EPA analyzed the harm from mercury and came to the conclusion that reduction expenditures as high as $30,000 per pound would be warranted. On this basis the potential market for ...
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New Jersey Appeals Against Polluting Pennsylvania Power Plant
TRENTON, New Jersey, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - The state of New Jersey has filed an appeal in federal court seeking review of a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, that rejected the state's opposition to an operating permit for a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. Attorney General Anne Milgram said that the appeal was filed with the U.S. Third Circuit Court of ...
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Rotork actuators support the environmental improvement programme at Aberthaw Power Station
RWE Aberthaw Power Station in South Wales is now one of the most efficient coal fired power stations in the UK, through the use of automation that includes Rotork valve actuation. Aberthaw can generate around 1555 MW of electricity for the National Grid System, which is enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million households. Following the introduction of Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) ...
By Rotork plc
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Huge variable in fabric filter market depending on power regulations in U.S. and China
The market for fabric filter systems is now predicted at less than $9 billion in 2016 and 2017. However, if tough particulate regulations were to be enforced in the power industry, the market would rise to as much as $15 billion per year. This is the conclusion reached in World Fabric Filter and Element Market published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) China is now in the ...
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$14 billion market for FGD equipment and consumables
Revenues for equipment, repair parts and consumables to remove SO2 from power plant stacks around the world will increase to over $14 billion in 2011 up from $13.2 billion in 2010. This is the forecast in the McIlvaine online report FGD Markets and Strategies. www.mcilvainecompany.com Fifty percent of the expenditures will be for reagents and repairs. The reagents include lime, limestone, ...
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EPA Withdraws Federal Plan and Approves Oklahoma’s Air Plan for Public Service of Oklahoma
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the approval of Oklahoma’s state clean-air plan to control regional haze from the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) two coal-fired power plants at its Northeastern Station in Oologah, OK. The state’s plan is a result of the April 2012 agreement between EPA, Oklahoma and PSO to both reduce pollution and protect ...
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Power Plant Becomes a Model for Cleaner Operation
A massive coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania is turning from one of the worst polluters in the country to a model for how such a facility can clean up its act. Homer City Generating Station is expected to make the transformation in a few years. When it does, it will end four decades of nearly limitless pollution from two of its units that had long escaped regulation. Three years ago ...
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EPA denies politics delayed pollution rules
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency denied Thursday that the agency delayed formal publication of carbon pollution rules for new power plants for political reasons, as Republican senators have claimed. The proposed rules would impose tough requirements on new coal-fired power plants, setting the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming. EPA ...
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