Air pollution control system is an umbrella term referring to equipment and systems used to regulate and eliminate the emission of potentially hazardous substances-including particulate matter and gases- produced by manufacturing, process system, and research applications into the air, atmosphere, and surrounding environment. Control equipment has applications in a wide range of industries, preventing the release of chemicals, vapors, and dust and filtering and purifying the air within the work environment. Typically, fans or blowers direct industrial exhaust and emissions into the air pollution control equipment and systems which remove or reduce air pollutants. The global air pollution control system market was valued at $69111.94 million in 2018 & is estimated to generate net revenue of approximately $110526.98 million by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.24%. The base year considered for the study is 2018 and the estimated period is between 2019 and 2027. The following factors drive the growth of this market:

• Rising air pollution
• Growth in population
• Strict government regulations

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The most important driver is strict government regulations. The demand for air pollution control systems and service is largely affected by the regulatory environment in the regions. The adoption of increasingly stringent environmental regulation requires industries to pay strict attention to environmental protection. Various industrial sectors such as refineries, power, chemical processes, metals, and mineral and industrial manufacturing must comply with various international, federal, state and local government regulations or potentially face substantial fines that force companies to suspend their operations or alter the processes.

Power generation, one of the major segments for industrial emission, has imposed several regulations on the control of harmful gases such as NO_X, SO_X, and particulates. The power generation segment accounts for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. government and EPA announced the Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.

The largest segment and fastest segment by the application is power generation. Emissions from power generation constitute a major contribution to air pollution. In 1997, they were 99, 32, and 20 percent of the carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, respectively generated in the USA. Emissions of the rest of the nitrogen oxides from combustion in stationary and mobile sources represented 95 percent of national emissions.

Carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds, and sulfur oxides emissions contributed approximately 87, 46 and 93 percent, respectively. Forecasts indicate that by 2010 the energy use in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries will be about 26 percent above 1992 levels. The non-OECD countries will increase their energy use by almost 48 percent. Given the depleting tendencies of crude oil resources, most of the countries intend to satisfy their future needs with natural gas and coal-based energy. Thus, the need for an air pollution control system will be huge and on rising trends.

The restraints for the global air pollution control system market are the growth in the renewable market, and decreasing investments in coal power plants by developed regions. The most important restraint is the growth in the renewable market. Thermal power generation sector is one of the major end-user industries for industrial emission control systems.

Over the past few years, many governments in both the developed and emerging nations have significantly cut down their investments in this sector and have focused largely on generating more power through renewable power sources such as wind, solar, and hydro-electric projects. The emissions released by this energy sector are minimal and has a significant impact on the emission control equipment market. In 2015, there was significant dollar investment made in the renewable energy sector and set records for new capacity added.

The Paris Agreement in December 2015 by the United Nations on climate change also formulated several policy signals for acceleration of low-carbon transformation of the global economy. In 2015, investments in renewable energy sector accounted for around $286 billion, which is six times more than in 2004 and more than half the energy generated was from renewable sources.

The report on global air pollution control system market includes segmentation by application and product.

Application is sub-segmented into:

• Cement
• Iron & Steel
• Chemical
• Power Generation
• Others

Product is sub-segmented into:

• Scrubbers
• Thermal Oxidizers
• Catalytic converters
• Electrostatic Precipitators
• Others

Geographically, the global air pollution control system market has been segmented on the basis of four major regions, which includes:

• North America Air Pollution Control System Market : the United States & Canada
• Europe Air Pollution Control System Market  : Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and Rest of Europe
• Asia Pacific Air Pollution Control System Market : China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Rest of Asia Pacific
• Rest of World: Latin America, Middle East & Africa

The Asia Pacific is the largest and fastest growing region. In the Asia-Pacific region, major downstream industries such as power generation, building materials, chemicals, and pulp & paper have created a rapidly increasing demand for extraction, desulfurization, and emission control equipment. Electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, and scrubbers are the top three emission control equipment used in the Asia-Pacific region.

The air pollution control systems market in Asia-Pacific is dominated by China, which has experienced rapid development in the past several years due to the high-level technology, booming downstream industries, and increasingly stringent regulations. Asia-Pacific is the most dominant market for air pollution control systems. The dominance of the region is due to the large presence of thermal power plants in the region, which are the major emission sources for air pollution.

The global air pollution control system market segmented into the market by application and product. The market by application is further sub-divided into cement, iron & steel, chemical, power generation and others. While market by product is further sub-divided into scrubbers, thermal oxidizers, catalytic converters, electrostatic precipitators, and others.

The major market players of the global air pollution control system market are:

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power System
• Siemens AG
• FLSmidth
• Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises
• KC Cottrel Co., Ltd
• Others

The company profiles cover the analysis of important market players. These companies are using organic and inorganic strategies for growth. For instance, in February 2019, Babcock & Wilcox’s Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, signed a licensing agreement to provide its water-cooled vibrating grate technology for biomass boilers to Thyssenkrupp Industries India Pvt. Limited on an exclusive basis for projects in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan.

In December 2018, Zhejiang Feida won the largest electrolytic aluminum flue gas desulfurization EPC project in China. In October 2018, Hamon signed an agreement with Actom for the supply of ESP and FGD on the South African Power market. In November 2018, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) received an order from India’s public sector utility NTPC (earlier known as National Thermal Power Corporation) Limited for additional installations of flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) systems in the Mouda-II and Rihand-II&III coal-fired power plants.

Key findings of the global air pollution control system market are:

• Market-based instruments have the potential to affect the market
• Growing concerns for health deterioration due to air pollution
• Introduction of mercury and toxic air standards