Sumitomo Chemical Co., Fuji Oil Co. and Chiyoda Corp. have agreed to launch a joint research program on energy-saving technology for petrochemical complexes. This research, subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), is one of NEDO's projects for strategic development of energy-saving technologies.

It is currently said that self-contained energy-saving efforts by a single industrial plant have already reached their limits. NEDO, however, has put considerable effort into promoting the practice of sharing heat energy among several industrial plants located within a single petrochemical complex in order to surpass this limit. By recovering and sharing exhaust heat formerly discharged into the air and generating electricity with this recovered heat, it is expected that some tens of thousands of tons of crude oil can be saved per year, contributing to a significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

The joint research program of these three companies aims at substantial energy-saving that surpasses the energy-saving capacity of individual industrial plants on their own.



Posted: 2003/11/12 01:55:53 PM
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