Initiatives Toward the Environment ofKeihin Water Front District

February 15, 2011
Kawasaki City General Planning Bureau
Office of Kanagawa Port & Water Front
Maintenance Promotion
DirectorNobuhide Kobayashi

Kawasaki Water Front at the End of Meiji Era

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Kawasaki Ocean Front at Present2

An Initiative that successfully Tackled the Problem of Pollution
Kawasaki Water Front in the 1960’s

Kawasaki Water Front at Present3Initiatives toward Environmental Technologies on Kawasaki Water Front(Global environment/ Energy)
 Neo-white (hydrated slurry) regenerative heatventilation system Energy saving with the regenerative ventilation
system using the neo-white having large
thermal capacity (hydrated slurry) Operation start
2005: THNK Keihin Building
2008: Underground city Azeria in Kawasaki city
 Maker: JFE Engineering Corporation

 Fuel cells for household use “Ene-farm”

 Schedule of battery and system development

 Ion exchanger for producing causticsoda

 Manufacturing
Originally 200 thousand cells/year(completed in April 2010)
Maximum 1.2 million cells/year Ground area About 2.9 ha
 Business entity Eliiy Power Co., Ltd.

 Energy saving by ion exchanger usefor producing caustic soda
 Production start 1974
 Business entity Asahi Kasei
Chemicals Corporation*Effective use of public land

 Output (by schedule) 20 MW
 Ground area About 34 ha
 Operation start 2011 Business entity Tokyo ElectricPower Co., Ltd. in Kawasaki city
* Also established the PR facility(completed at the end of 2010)

Shiohamahigashi

Front ofKawasaki
Station Generated electric power About 1 kW
 Using efficiency of primary energy 70 to 80%
 Sales start 2009
 Marketed by Nippon Oil Corporation, Tokyo
Gas Company, Limited
 Maker Toshiba Fuel Cell Power SystemCorporation, etc.

 Installation of megawatt solar system

Chidori (Yako)

Hama-Kawasaki
Station and its
surrounding areaUkishima Steam from the thermal power plants isdesigned to be provided to companies in theneighborhood
 Amount of supply (by schedule) About 300
thousand t/year Supply start February, 2010
 Business entity Kawasaki Steam Net Co., Ltd.
* Supply to ten companies in the Chidori/Yakodistrict

Mizue

Ohgimachi
 Introduction of combined cycle power generation

 Operation of natural gas power generation
 New-type shaft furnace
 Output About 850 thousand kW
 Thermal efficiency About 58% (the world’shighest level) Overall operation start October 2008
 Business entity Kawasaki Natural Gas
Power Generation(Nippon Oil Corporation, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.) Scheduled to set up wind power generators
 Output (by schedule) About 2 thousand kW
 Windmill specifications
Blade Height 120 meter Width 80 meter Operation start March, 2010
 Construction start September, 2009
 Business entity Nippon Oil Corporation*Subsidy by the Agency for Natural
Resources and Energy adoptedOhgishima

 Dissolution capacity About 500thousand t/year Operation start August, 2008
 Business entity JFE SteelCorporation
Scrappedcoke

Side-generated
gas collection

Cast irondissolution4 Ground area About 28 ha Unit 1 series- Output 1.5 million kW (1,500°C class)- Thermal efficiency About 59% (1,500°C class)(the world’s highest level- Operation start February, 2009
 Unit 2 series- Output 500 thousand kW × 1 axle (1,500°Cclass)
710 thousand kW × 2 axles (1,600°C class)- Thermal efficiency About 61% (1,600°C class)(the world’s highest level)- Overall operation start (by schedule) 2017 Business entity Tokyo Electric Power Co., Ltd.

Initiatives Toward Environmental Technologies on Kawasaki Water Front(Resource recycling/waste））
 Plan the construction of biomass power plant Output (by schedule) About 33 thousand kW
 Ground area About 3.2 ha Operation start (by schedule) February, 2011 Construction start September, 2009
 Business entity Kawasaki Biomass Power
Generation Co., Ltd. and others Subsidy by NEDO
adopted Processing facility for providing fuel to be used by
the power plants(Establish Japan Bio Energy as an annex)

 Urban-type cement factory Reduction of CO2 by using waste and by-productseffectively as the raw fuel for cement
 Reduction of CO2 by manufacturing slug cement
for blast furnace
 Business entity DC Co., Ltd.

 Construction of incinerator with afurnace of dry distillation gasification type

 Development of advanced integrated processing
technology for heavy oil Waste is turned into gas and burned Hazardous substance concentration
reduced by 90%
 Amount of exhaust gas reduced by60%
 Operation start July, 2007
 Business entity Zeon Corporation

 Resolution facilities that vary from one oil refinery toanother are combined for an integrated operation ofheavy oil, so that manufacturing of high-value added oilproducts such as volatile oil is enabled efficiently.
 Business entity Tonen General Sekiyu K.K., Showa Shell
Sekiyu K.K. Toa Oil Co., Ltd.

Shiohamahigashi
 Soil purification plants
 Business entity Shimizu
Corporation(Ohgimachi)
 Amount of processing 40 t/h Operation start September, 2002

Ukishima
 Waste plastic blast furnace reduction facility(Shiraishi) Exclusively for dioxin
 Amount of processing 5 t/h Operation startMay, 2009

 Amount of processing 25 thousand t/year(waste plastic) Operation start 2000
 Business entity JFE Kankyo Corporation

AsanoMizue

 Waste household appliance recycling facility
Shiraishi Amount of processing 400 to 500 thousand
units/year (used household appliances) Operation start 2001
 Business entity JFE Urban Recycle
CorporationOhgimachi

 Pet bottle recycling facility
 Facility for turning waste plastic into raw material ofammonia
 Amount of processing 64 thousand t/year(waste plastic) Production amount 58 thousand t/year (ammonia)
 Operation start 2003
 Business entity Showa Denko K. K.

 Pet to pet recycling facility
 Refuse paper recycling facility

 Amount of processing 27.5 thousand t/year(abandoned pet bottles)
 Production amount 23 thousand t/year(resin for pet bottles)
 Operation start 2004
 Business entity Petrefinetechnology Co., Ltd.

 Amount of processing 81 thousand t/year(refuse paper) Production amount 54 thousand t/year(for toilet paper) Operation start 2002
 Business entity San-Ei Regulator Co., Ltd

5Observation of water front district (May, 2008)(from left)
The President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao
Mayor of Kawasaki Takao Abe Amount of processing 15 thousand t/year(abandoned pet bottles)
 Operation start 2002
 Business entity JFE Kankyo Corporation
 Manufacturing facility of concrete frame panels
made from waste plastic
 Amount of processing 25 thousand t/year(waste plastic) Operation start 2002
 Business entity JFE Kankyo Corporation

Observation of water front district April, 2009
(From left)
People’s Republic of China
The Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China
Standing committee member Li Changchun
Mayor of Kawasaki
Takao Abe

Kawasaki Water Front at Present6

Toward Establishment of Kawasaki Environment Research Institutein Tonomachi 3-Chome District- Establishment of the General Environment Research Institute  The Kawasaki Environment Research Institute was established in Tonomachi 3-Chomedistrict in Kawasaki-ku which is adjacent to Haneda Airport, as a hub for leadinginternational competition
 Promoting environmental policies in a better-planned and more scientific manner to realize a low-carbon
society and address regional environmental issues
 Promoting comprehensive research on the environment in liaison with Japan’s National Institute forEnvironmental Studies, universities and private sectors having advanced environmental technologies.

Five functions introduced in the Kawasaki Environment Research Institute Function 1
Research aiming at Coexistence of City and Industry(Collaborative joint research with industry, universities, the public sector and citizens) Function 2
Promotion of international contribution by Kawasaki’s outstanding environmental technologies
 Function 3
Collection and dissemination of information regarding Kawasaki’s outstanding
environmental technologies
 Function 4
Monitoring, survey and research for further environmental improvements and prevention ofenvironmental pollution
 Function 5
Environmental education and learning in collaboration with diverse players
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Toward Establishment of the Kawasaki Environment Research Institutein Tonomachi 3-chome District- Establishment of General Environment Research Institute  Dissemination of the cutting-edge environmental technologies as the hub of theenvironmental field Disseminate information on the introduction of the latest environmental technologies or sample exhibitions
 Promote visualization of environmental technologies, for instance, the effect on the reduction of CO2
emissions Hold events at which visitors can see and feel the environmental technologies. One hub for eco tours on
the Water Front

Environment-friendly design<On Construction >Double outer wall to cut thermal loadA well-hole style as an environmental device<Adoption of leading-edge green technologies>
 Use of BEMS
 Automated control of illumination and airconditioning<Use of natural energies>
 Photovoltaic (PV) power generation
 Use of solar heat and underground heat8

Toward Establishment of the Kawasaki Environment Research Institutein Tonomachi 3-chome District- Establishment of general environmental Research InstituteInitiatives toward the establishment(Activities of the Environment Technology Information Center) In advance to the establishment of Kawasaki Environment Research Institute, the City of Kawasaki
established the Global Environment Information Center in 2008.

Matching

Promotion ofenvironmental action

Accumulation ofenvironmental information

Network establishment

Promotion of environmental improvement andrevitalization of environmental industries

Co-existence of city and industry

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Needs of citizens, companies,
research institutes, NPOs,government, etc.

Global Environment Information Center

Needs analysis andsorting

Information analysis
and sorting

Initiatives of citizens,companies, research institutes,NPOs, government, etc.

 Initiatives toward the coexistence of the city and industry, such as the collection and dissemination of
information on environmental technologies, joint research with the industry, academia, the private sector,citizens and international collaborative projects, are promoted.

Kawasaki Green Innovation linked to the Idea of Creating an International Hub of
Cutting-Edge Technologies
 In linkage with the idea of creating a world-class hub for competitive technologies
and R & D on environmental technologies is further promoted with the Kawasaki
Environment Research Institute as the core
 Make contribution to the sustainable development of Kawasaki as a low-carbon city, by promoting
R & D with the fields for which the advanced environmental technologies have been accumulated Disseminate A Model of Co-Existence of City and Industry as a package from Kawasaki to contributeto the sustainable development of the Earth as a member of the international society

Research for the methods of environmental technology information, environmental technology
evaluation and environmental city planning by the green innovation network (draft)
Companies on the seaside
having environmental
technologies

Asia andInternational community

Kawasaki Environment
Research Institute
Information

Information

TechnologyTechnology
Men

Planning, evaluation,and verification of low
carbon districts andcity, in and aroundTonomachi 3-chomedistrict

Collaborationagreement

Haneda AirportNational Institute forEnvironmental Studies

Research ontechnology
development andverification system ingreen cities in Asiaand around the world

10MenKawasaki City General Planning Bureau
Office of Kanagawa Port & Water Front Maintenance promotion
Phone 044-200-3633
FAX
044-200-3540
February 15, 2011