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Regenerative burner
Door lifting device
Charging door
Exhaust gas duct
M.L
M.L
Dross chute
Metal discharge mouth
Porous plug
FIGURE 5.79
High performance aluminum-melting furnace.
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FIELD TRIALS AND EXPERIENCES OBTAINED
THROUGH FIELD TEST DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
The Third Conference of Parties on the Framework Convention on Climate Change
(Kyoto Conference on the Prevention of Global Warming, COP3) was held in
December, 1997, and the “Kyoto Protocol” was adopted. This protocol stipulated
that Japan should achieve more than 6% reduction of greenhouse gases from the
1990 emission level within the period from 2008 to 2012. To meet the target, it was
considered crucial to reduce the total amount of energy consumed by the industrial
sector, which accounts for about 50% of total energy consumption in Japan. Various
industries, in particular the iron and steel industry, which uses industrial furnaces,
and the petrochemical industry, were expected to work toward achieving energy
saving.
Under these circumstances, one part of the research and development of the
High Performance Industrial Furnace Development
project, which had been pro-
moted from 1993 by NEDO, was completed in 1998. The project resulted in tech-
nological advances including new technologies applicable to energy saving purposes.
MITI and NEDO initiated a joint research program called High Performance Indus-
trial Furnace Field Test Demonstration Project for a period of 3 years from 1998 to
2000 as a step toward the practical application of the technology on the basis of the
results of the development project mentioned above.
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This program is now under way.
This section details facts related to the program and the data, although partial,
obtained from the program to the end of 1998. In addition, information on the
applications for the field test in fiscal year 1999 is included. The project aims to
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