AN EVALUATION SYSTEM ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT BY ENERGY NETWORKING IN AN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Abstract

 It is a siginificant issue on creating a low carbon society to establish industrial and urban symbiotic network among entities in addition to individual facilities' efficiency improvement. This paper proposed an evaluation system to analyze the actual synergy network in a industrial city and to estimate low carbon effect on future scenario that heat from power generations would be utilized by industries around those. The result of a case study in Kawasaki coastal area showed GHG reduction potential was estimated as 132Mt-CO₂ /year in total. One of the future challenges is to create a process model of steel/iron and oil refinery industries as heat emitters and chemical industries and urban consumption activities as heat users.