Cement, Energy and Environment

WASTE PLASTICS WILL FUEL EECTRICITY PRODUCTION Clwmica l Industry Digest 14(5):115 (2001) Sanix Corporation, Japan is building what will be Japan's first commercial electric power plant to use waste plastic as its only fuel at Tomakomai. The plant wi ll burn 704 million ton.ncs per day of plastics and generate 74 MW of electricity for sale to outside users. In the pilot test, the process has produced exhaust gas that contains less NOx, SOx, and dioxins. Courtesy: TIDE (TERI Information Digest on Energy), Vol. 11, No.4, Dec. 01, Pp. 229-230. Fax: 4682144 Email: outreach@teri.res.in Web: www.teriin.org COMMISSION STUDY SUPPORTS USE OF WASTE OILS IN CEMENT KILNS The European Commission has recently published a study which concludes tha t, if a full life-cycle analysis is taken into account, regeneration of waste oils does not always have environmental advantages that far outweigh those of incineration. Comparing the respective environmental attributes of regenerating waste oils wi th using them for valorisation in cement kilns, the study s tates that regeneration has both environmenta l advantages and drawbacks, depending on the env ironmental impact considered. This study reinforces the timeliness of CEMBUREAU's Action Plan on the Use of Waste. The study predicts that the entry into force of the new Waste Incineration Directive will prevent many installations, with the exception of cement and lime kilns and a few others from burning was ter oils. Courtesy : Cement and Concrete World, Mar.02, Vol.6, Pp.15-16. Fax: (90312) 2879272 Email: info@tcma.org . tr Web: www.tcma.org.tr INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY PROFILE AFGHANISTAN TURNS TO INDIA AND JAPAN Indian industrialists swamped the organisers of meetings on rebuilding Afghanistan. Indian companies have enormous experience in building bridges and roads in difficult terrain. "These companies must now make the most of the multilateral assistance being offered for Afghanistan's reconstruction," India's special envoy to Afghanistan, Sa tinder K. Lambah, told crowded meeting of Indian entrepreneurs. In a separate meeting recently with a high– powered Japanese delegation, led by Mrs. Sadako Ogata, special envoy of Japan prime minister, leaders of Afghan's sou thwest zone have stressed the needs and shortcomings in the areas of agriculture, irri ga tion, electric power, reconstruction of dams, the cement project (presumably the Kandahar works, a proposed SOO,OOOtpa plant project first initiated as a joint ven ture between Afghan and Chinese governments in the early 1980s) and airports, as well as the problems facing hospitals and public health as a whole, and asked the delegation to assess these difficulties. The Japanese expressed readiness to prepare the grOLmd for dispatch of delegations to start actual work in delivering Japa n's assis tance to Afghanistan and in particular the southwest zone. Courtesy: International Cement Review, Feb.2002, P- 12. Email: info@CemNet.co.uk Website: www.CemNet.com CONCRETE ROADS ERA BEGINS IN TURKEY Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association (TCMA) has signed a protocol wi th the General