TOYO TIRE’S SENDAI PLANT TO USE NATURAL GAS FOR ENERGY SOURCES

Time: Dec 30th 2016   Copy editor: Tyrefull

Toyo Tire & Rubber’s Sendai plant in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, will switch from coal and fuel oil to natural gas for energy sources utilised at the automobile tyre manufacturing base.

The Sendai plant has been the company’s manufacturing base for automobile tyres since 1962 and has continued operations there for more than half a century. Until now, the plant has utilized the burning of coal and used tyres to produce thermal energy for tyre manufacturing, and fuel oil combustion for the cogeneration boiler that supplies needed steam and electricity throughout the plant.

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co has designed a plan to lay a gas pipeline2 from Soma LNG1 Terminal (Shinchi, Fukushima) to Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, and to construct a natural gas infrastructure that includes the plant area. Toyo Tires has decided to take this opportunity to install highly efficient natural-gas-fired gas turbines with high heat recovery capacities that can supply thermal power to each of the facilities at the plant. (1 – Liquefied natural gas, 2 – Plans are to complete construction by the end of 2017 and begin operations in 2018.)

The burning of natural gas produces none of the SOx (sulfur oxides) that cause air pollution and acid rain, and emits little of the harmful gases such as the greenhouse gas CO2 and NOx (nitrogen oxides), which significantly contributes to photochemical smog. It also allows for the suppression of gypsum sludge, fly ash, and various other such waste by-products.

In light of global environmental protection, corporations are being prompted to step-up their efforts toward realizing a low-carbon society in which greenhouse gases are reduced to amounts capable of being absorbed by nature. Toyo Tires has set as a goal a “15% reduction (compared to 2005) by 2020″ of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at domestic manufacturing bases, and are undertaking various initiatives at each base. (3 – Units of direct carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions)

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