NEWS RELEASE                                                                                                                OCTOBER 2012 

$7.5 Billion Air and Water Monitoring Market in East Asia

In 2013, East Asian countries will spend $7.5 billion for equipment and services to monitor air and water. This is the latest finding in the McIlvaine report, Air & Water Pollution Monitoring World Markets.

Air and Water Monitoring Revenues in East Asia ($ Millions)

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Industry

  
  

2013

  

 Asphalt

 23

 Bioclean

 11

 Chemical

 106  

 Commercial & Residential

 1,733  

 Electronics

 101  

 FGD

 372  

 Food

 82  

 Gas Turbines

 20  

 Government & Academia

 1,285  

 Incinerators

 93  

 Metals

 192  

 Mining

 111  

 Oil & Gas

 26  

 Other Industries

 220  

 Pharmaceutical

 25  

 Power

 1,348  

 Power SCR

 95  

 Pulp & Paper

 240  

 Refining

 196

 Steel

 81  

 Stone

 182  

 Surface Coating

 18

 Wastewater

 473  

 Water

 532  

Total

7,567

East Asia will be the largest regional market with 34 percent of the world total of $22 billion. Water will account for two thirds of the East Asia total, while air will account for one third. Power represents the largest industrial sector with forecasted purchases of just under $1.3 billion. The very large program to build new coal-fired boilers throughout the region is accompanied by concern about air and water quality. China has adopted tough regulations to control emissions of SO2 and NOx. In addition, innovative measures are being taken to most efficiently utilize the water needed for power plant operation. These initiatives are contributing to the substantial market. China is building many ultrasupercritical boilers which include large expenditures for combustion optimization systems. These systems include monitoring of oxygen, coal flow, temperature and many other parameters. The boiler feedwater must be ultrapure and requires monitoring of dissolved oxygen and various other constituents related to purity and corrosion.

The construction of a large numbers of municipal drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities in the region will result in over $1 billion in monitoring expenditures next year in the region. The advantages of continuous monitoring rather than grab sampling are boosting sales for the more expensive instruments.

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