Toyota Tsusho and TEPCO Announce Start of CDM Project in Thailand.Tokyo, Japan, Feb 27, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota) and Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Japan) ) have begun their Clean Development Mechanism (CDM 1. CDM - Content Data Model 2. CDM - Code Division Multiplexing ) project in Thailand. The two companies developed a CDM facility in order to recover methane from a tapioca starch factory (in the Kalasin Province of Northeastern Thailand) by working through (Thai based) Cassava cassava (kəsä`və) or manioc (măn`ēŏk), name for many species of the genus Manihot of the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family). Waste Energy Co., Ltd. (CWTE). Construction of the CDM facility began on the 15th of February, 2007. The tapioca starch factory currently emits methane into the air without any restrictions. CWTE will recover the methane as biogas bi·o·gas n. A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter and used as a fuel. biogas Noun gaseous fuel produced by the fermentation of organic waste to sell back to the tapioca starch factory as a substitute for heavy oil. This process will significantly reduce the air emission of methane as well as the amount of heavy oil being used in the tapioca starch factory. Toyota and TEPCO have also reached an agreement with CWTE (both Toyota and TEPCO are investors in CWTE) to purchase carbon credits through this project. Toyota and TEPCO expect this project to be approved as a CDM project under the Kyoto Protocol. Copyright [c] 2007 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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