Rengo established “Eco Challenge 009” in 2001 as the company’s environmental objective and has strenuously worked on energy saving, reduction of wastes and effective utilization of resource toward the year 2009, the 100 th anniversary of the company.
On 2009, the final year for the Challenge, the company achieved to reduce carbon emissions by 26.8% compared to 1990 levels, considerably exceeding the targeted value of “Eco Challenge 009” by 22%. Under “Eco Challenge 020”, the company follows its slogan of “Less Weight, Less Carbon” and aims to reduce carbon emissions by 32% compared to 1990 levels.
The paper will introduce energy saving made possible by changing the control of air compressor operation by using the steam turbine and motor drive combination system, which was newly installed to replace the aging air compressor of Tonegawa PM 1.
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