Processing, November 2018

IIoT in the power industry Coal red power plants will be the largest IIoT purchasers but the gap is shrinking as gas turbine capacity grows he power industry represents a 19 billion annual Industrial Internet of ings IIoT market growing at 8 percent annually according to IIoT Remote O M Column Power Generation a report published by the McIlvaine Company The guide segment is growing faster than the others This segment includes process management software and data analytics The liquid measurement segment includes steam which makes it larger than the air and gas measurement segment Free f lowing solids measurement is needed for coal y ash and dry chemicals Coal red power plants will be the largest purchasers but the gap is shrinking as gas turbine capacity grows Nuclear plants will continue to rank below coal and gas The amount of IIoT purchases by solar and wind generators will remain small even though the share of generation by these plants will be growing robustly Geothermal and biomass plants are individually large purchasers of IIoT products but their share of total generation will be small Between 2018 and 2021 the capacity of coal plants worldwide will grow from 2440 gigawatts GW to 2600 GW e average boiler size is 200 megawatts MW ere are 12200 existing boilers within these coal plants e average size of new boilers is 500 MW So the number of boilers will grow by 320 during the next three years is will create substantial markets for guide control and measure related to environmental upgrades India will be retrofitting air pollution control for 60000 MW of coal red capacity Guide control and measure products and systems will be required for the flue gas desulfurization selective catalytic NOx reduction and particulate control systems The resultant wastewater will be treated with the addition of chemicals based on the measurement of e uent quality ere is a growing interest in third party operation and maintenance This option has been made more attractive by the ability to remotely monitor all components and then continuously analyze performance Nuclear capacity will grow from 433 GW in 2018 to 453 GW in 2021 The average reactor has a capacity of 1 GW and many sites have multiple reactors This means there are less than 500 units and less than 300 sites Global nuclear power generation is now predicted to grow by 23 percent per annum out to 2035 More than 90 percent of the IIoT expenditures will be made by fewer than 50 companies Thirty nine percent of these purchases will be made by just three operators and one supplier Gas turbine capacity will rise from 1670 GW in 2018 to 1890 GW in 2021 e average unit size is 01 GW resulting in 18900 units in place by 2021 ere are thousands of geothermal biomass biogas and hydro plants Most are small There are nearly 30000 industrial boilers in the U S However there are only 350 plants with coal fired boilers and 2000 plants with large gas red boilers BASF is one company that operates multiple boilers at dozens of plants throughout the world Industrial boilers often provide both power and steam The IIoT requirements for the combustion ultrapure water steam and cooling systems are substantial Gas measurement There will be a substantial increase in purchases of gas measurement devices in the power industry over the next five years The purchase of instrumentation will expand faster than the construction of new power plants due to the following factors Increased measurement and control at existing plants Expansion of coal fired capacity in Asia Expansion of gas turbine combined cycle plant capacity worldwide Development of better instruments which justify replacing existing instruments or use where instruments were not previously used Expansion of the regulatory requirements to measure stack emissions continuously Increased number of pollutants to be measured Expansion of rules to measure fence line and other ambient pollutants Improvements of combustion efficiency with better in furnace gas measurements e top 15 power companies will spend more than 750 million for gas measurement devices in 2022 This includes analyzers to measure CO CO O NOx NH SO SO mercury and dust e requirements for mass measurement of dust are boosting the market because the cost is considerably greater than the previously required opacity monitors e power industry is a major purchaser of IIoT equipment and services The advent of remote monitoring and thirdparty operational and maintenance support will allow the worlds expertise to be utilized by developing countries with their growing power needs The Mcilvaine Company www mcilvainecompany com Bob Mcilvaine THE Mcilvaine Company 12 Processing NOVEMBER 2018 T Bob Mcilvaine is the president of the Mcilvaine Company in Northfield Illinois Mcilvaine provides market research and technical analyses on power plant purchases He may be reached at rmcilvaine@ mcilvainecompany com or 847 784 0012 ext 112 There will be substantial increases in purchases of gas measurement devices in the power industry over the next ve years Power plant IIoT purchases worldwide 2019 Guide Liquid measurement Free owing solids measurement Control Air gas measurement Table 1 Power plant IIoT purchases worldwide in 2019 Graphic courtesy of The Mcilvaine Company Visit processingmagazine com for more on power generation MORE ONLINE