NEWS RELEASE                                                                                                    MAY 2012

Air and Water Instrumentation Market to Exceed $14.1 Billion This Year

Expenditures for portable, laboratory and continuous measuring instruments for air and water will exceed $14.1 billion this year. This is the forecast made by McIlvaine in its Air and Water Monitoring publications. The definition of the market is based on the McIlvaine concept of “decisive classification” rather than scientific or literal classification. Some process analyzers, software and transmitters are included in the forecast because this is the way many of the suppliers view the market and, most importantly, the segmentation which purchasers use to sort through the alternatives.

World Air and Water Instrumentation Revenues 2012 ($ Millions)

 

 

Laboratory

 

Portable and Field, Emergency Response

Online

Continuous

Plus Software

Ambient-

Fence Line,

Remediation

 

Total

Municipal Water/Wastewater, Agricultural, Aquaculture

   1,000

   500

     800

     700

3,000

Oil, Gas, Refining, Chemical

     300

   200

1,000

     300

1,800

Mining and Minerals

       80

     20

     500

     100

   700

Electronics and Pharmaceutical

     150

     50

     280

       20

   500

Pulp/Paper, Food, Beverage and Miscellaneous Industrial

     100

   100

     300

     100

   600

Power Including Nuclear, Fossil, Hydro, Renewables

     800

   400

2,400

     400

4,000

Government, Military and Academia

1,000

   500

     200

   300

2,000

Commercial, Including HVAC Cooling, Restaurants, Pools and Spas, Vessels

     400

   700

     400

         0

1,500

Total

3,830

2,470

5,880

1,920

14,100

Oxygen measurement is one of the largest segments in the air and gas sector. It is used for control and safety in combustion applications. It is also used for inerting systems and gas storage. It is used to determine the quality of CO2 used in brewing. It is one of a number of parameters measured with air pollution continuous emission monitor systems.

Dissolved oxygen measurements in water are a major water segment with analyzer revenues approaching $200 million/yr. Continuous monitors are needed in beverage, aquaculture and remediation. Accurate pH, O2, conductivity and turbidity measurements are critical in modern wastewater treatment.

This year $1 billion will be spent for continuous emission monitoring systems for stack gases. It is divided into the following categories:

Stack Gas Continuous Emissions Monitor Revenues 2012

Segment

Percent

Power

     50

Oil, Gas, Refining, Chemical

     20

Municipal Wastewater

       5

Mining and Minerals

     10

Other

     15

One of the fastest growing segments is continuous monitors for oil and gas. Water quality instrumentation is needed to monitor aquifers and surface water in proximity to shale gas operations. Gas chromatographs can continuously measure natural gas Btu content, an important parameter in energy transactions.

The total process control and instrumentation market exceeds $70 billion worldwide. The measurement and control of gases and liquid processes is just a small portion of the total, but it is difficult to completely compartmentalize this portion. The oil and gas and chemical sector listed above accounts for more than $15 billion in process instrumentation purchases including the following segments:

Oil, Gas, Refining, Petrochemical, Chemical Process Instrumentation Revenues 2012

 

Product Category

     $ Billions

Air/Water

Inclusions

Process Control Systems

   4.0

   0.2

Control Valves and Actuators

   4.2

   0.0

Application Software

   1.2

   0.1

On-Line Process Analyzers

   1.6

   0.4

Flow, Temperature, Pressure, Level Transmitters

   4.0

   0.3

Total

15.0

   1.0

Only $1 billion out of a total expenditure of $15 billion is included in the McIlvaine air/water forecast.

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