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Project Roster
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Project 1. Status Report
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The Cement Task Force has
identified, as a first priority, addressing the lack of
basic data among Partner countries that is crucial to
the development and success of the Task Force’s future
work. Examples of such data include emissions and
emissions intensity of CO2 and air pollutants, energy
consumption and intensity, and usage of alternative
fuels and raw materials. Japan has organized and funded
this data-collection effort. The information acquired
from this work will contribute to a greater
understanding among Partners regarding their current
energy consumption levels, emissions and practices. The
data collected will also be the basis for the Task
Force’s development of benchmarks and best practices.
Japan is the participating Partner in this project.
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Project 2. Benchmarking (Benchmark Development)
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Task Force Partners will develop
benchmarks for evaluating the emissions reduction
potential based directly on the results of the Status
Report project (see Project 1 – Status Report).
Partners will define benchmarks and select key
performance indicators, such as CO2 emissions, energy
efficiency, recycling, and emissions of air pollutants.
In addition, the Cement Task Force will estimate
emissions reduction potential and set benchmarks;
identify potential barriers to emissions reductions; and
provide recommendations to Partner country governments
in order to meet reduction goals. Japan and the United
States are participating Partners in this project.
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Project 3. Legal/Regulatory
Issues
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Partner countries have identified
several legal and regulatory barriers to the cleaner,
more efficient production of cement. The Cement Task
Force will undertake a study of comparative legal and
regulatory barriers to, and incentives for, reducing the
CO2 intensity of cement production and deploying cleaner
manufacturing technology. In addition, Partners will
identify the legal or regulatory barriers to, and
incentives for, the use of concrete to mitigate climate
change impacts. The United States will fund and
organize this work. The ultimate goal of this project
is two-fold: Partners will seek to reduce or eliminate
legal and regulatory barriers to cleaner, more efficient
production of cement and the use of concrete to mitigate
climate change impacts, and work aggressively to promote
incentives. The United States is the participating
Partner in this project.
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Project 4. Product Application
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In addition to improving the
Partners’ cement production processes, the Task Force
seeks to identify and draw attention to ways in which
concrete can mitigate climate change impacts. The Task
Force will evaluate applications of concrete that
mitigate climate change impacts; undertake collaborative
research into life cycle energy efficiency of concrete
applications; and identify further steps that
governments can take to encourage sustainable
development using concrete products. This effort may
include evaluation of energy efficient structures, urban
heat island mitigation, vehicle fuel efficiency, and
structural durability. The United States will fund and
organize this work. Partners will summarize existing
literature and programs to evaluate applications of
concrete and identify potential research projects and
make recommendations on further steps that governments
can take to encourage sustainable development using
concrete products. The United States is the
participating Partner in this project.
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Project 5. Centre of Excellence
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Partners will use the proposed
Center of Excellence to share information on best
practices; research emerging technologies; and promote
improved environmental
performance to Partner governments, cement industry
associations and major cement manufacturers. The Center
will provide scholarships and lecturing/research
opportunities through which Partner country applicants
can work for up to a year on an agreed Asia-Pacific
Partnership relevant project with a research team at the
China Building Materials Academy in Beijing. Finally,
the Center will facilitate skilled worker exchanges
between participating Partner countries in order to
enhance the diffusion of technical expertise between
companies in areas of energy efficiency, greenhouse gas
reduction and the use of alternative fuels and raw
materials for cement production. The Center of
Excellence will be located in China. Australia, China,
and Japan are participating Partners in this project.
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Project 6. Cement Kiln Co-Generation
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This project, a cement kiln
electricity cogeneration demonstration plant, will
facilitate the demonstration and deployment of
energy-efficient and cleaner production formulation
technologies in Partnership countries. The
demonstration plant will document the economic and
energy efficiency gains obtained by utilizing cement
plant waste heat to generate electricity. The Project
combines two established technologies, cement kiln
operation and cogeneration technology, in a novel manner
to reduce the greenhouse gas emission intensity from
cement production, increase cement kiln energy use
efficiency, reduce kiln energy consumption, and generate
electricity. In addition, this project seeks to
demonstrate the technical and engineering challenges
involved in retrofitting cogeneration facilities
utilizing cement kiln waste heat; characterize the
energy efficiency gains obtained from the installation
of cogeneration facilities in a typical cement plant;
disseminate the expertise of Partner countries on
cogeneration technology; and encourage and facilitate
deployment of cogeneration technology to Partners. The
plant will be located in Australia. Australia and China
are participating Partners in this project.
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Project 7.
Hazardous Wastes –
Best Practices for Co-Processing and Management
in
Cement Kilns
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Project 7 is an Umbrella project that is expected to
provide cement kilns with a reliable, affordable supply
of renewable energy, while serving as a clean, safe
destruction technology for waste management in the Asia
Pacific Partnership member counties. It will do this by
promoting the use of hazardous and other industrial
wastes as a reliable alternate, renewable source of
energy for clinker production in cement kilns. This
project is expected to increase awareness of options for
using alternative fuels, promote installation of
enabling technologies, and reduce emissions from fossil
fuels.
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Project 8.
High Energy Biomass
Fuels for Cement Production
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Project 8 is intended to promote
biomass fuels as an alternate, renewable source of
energy for clinker production in cement kilns. In
addition to processing existing biomass waste materials,
new technologies are now available to capture CO2 from
stack emissions and convert the carbon into high-energy
biomass algae by cultivation in enclosed
photo-bioreactor systems. This algae could be harvested
and fed directly into the kilns as fuel, or processed
further into high-value products. This project will
explore the feasibility of using various types of
biomass as a reliable source of renewable energy.
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Project 9.
The Effect of Cement
Concrete as a CO2 Sink
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It is not widely known that
concrete absorbs CO2 over time; further research should
be conducted to study this phenomenon. This project will
conduct the needed research and develop an ‘estimation
model’ of CO2 absorption from concrete structures and
used concrete. It will then suggest a revision of the
calculation protocol of CO2 emissions to the IPCC.
Partner countries include Australia, India, Korea, and
the United States.
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Project 10.
Performance
Diagnosis
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Specialists in energy saving, environmental management
and cement production in the Japanese cement industry
will visit cement factories in
China
and
India
to carry out performance diagnosis and provide
recommendations on how factories can introduce optimal
technologies and operational approaches. The objective
of the project is to specifically provide short-term and
medium-to-long term advice on energy saving and
environmental management that is appropriate to local
conditions in cement factories in
China and
India. The
recommendations will help guide cement industries in the
Partner countries to exercise well-informed judgments,
while recognizing energy saving and environmental
management technologies that can lead to improved
efficiency and productivity. The lead Partner is
Japan with participating
Partners being China
and
India.
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