NEWS RELEASE                                                                                                    APRIL 2012

Sales of Air Polltion Control Equipment to Reach $68 Billion This Year

Sales of equipment to remove air pollutants from stacks and vehicles will exceed $68 billion in 2012. This is the latest finding in Air Pollution Management published by the McIlvaine Company.

World 2012 Revenues ($ Billions) for Air Pollution Control Equipment

The $25 billion power segment includes coal-fired power plants, gas turbines and stationary diesel engines. Mobile includes ships as well as automobiles and trucks. Municipal is primarily odor control from municipal wastewater plants except for a broader scope for fans and compressors. The industrial segment includes iron and steel, refining, pulp and paper, chemicals and hundreds of other smaller segments.

The high growth areas over the next ten years are:

• Fabric filters to meet increasingly more stringent regulations for small particulate emissions
• Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) & NO_x reduction (DeNO_x)  in Asian countries and China in particular
• Mercury and other air toxic reductions in the U.S.
• Seawater scrubbing systems for large vessels
• Selective catalytic reduction for trucks
• Thermal treatment systems for unconventional oil and gas recovery
• Electrostatic precipitators in Asia
• Air pollution upgrades  for power plants in Eastern Europe

Market changing technology developments which are possible include:

• A combination filter and DeNO_x device to operate at 850⁰F
• Scrubber systems to produce hydrochloric acid along with gypsum
• Vehicle catalyst developments to more cost effectively address CO, hydrocarbons and NO_x
• Better ways to capture mercury
• Encapsulation of the flue gas in foam for ultra high removal of all pollutants
• Better ways to marry filtration and electrostatic precipitation

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