China Energy Group provides training to the largest 42 cement plants in China through Asia Pacific Partnership project

A four-day training workshop will be held jointly in July, Beijing

[29 May, 2009] With a goal of providing cement companies in China with comprehensive tools to measure GHG emissions and identify mitigation opportunities, China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) collaborates with World Resources Institute (WRI), China Building Materials Academy (CBMA), China’s National Development & Reform Commission, US Environment Protection Agency, US Department of State, and E3M. A four-day training workshop will be held jointly this summer in Beijing for the largest 42 cement companies in China, which produce over 30% of China's cement production annually.

At the workshop, cement companies will be introduced to and trained with three tools, which were developed separately but now are integrated through a common input and output functionality to work together to aid GHG management decisions. The Cement Sustainability Initiative’s (CSI’s) CO2 Quantification Protocol Tool enables companies to quantify emissions on corporate and plant levels. The Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for Cement (BEST-Cement) helps companies to compare commercially-available efficiency technologies used anywhere in the world. The Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool (PHAST) offers methods to identifying energy saving opportunities and estimating cost savings. The training program will also enable data to be collected simultaneously for all tools.

The July workshop is the kick-off event for an ambitious three year project. The project aims to reduce energy use and energy-related GHG emissions in Chinese cement factories by 10-15% by 2012. Funded by the US Department of State, through the Cement Task Force of Asia-Pacific Partnership, the project will design an economically-viable, environmentally-friendly co-processing program and conduct plant co-processing demonstrations in 6 Chinese plants. The development, documentation, and dissemination of technical guidelines will be carried out to enhance the capacity of the entire Chinese cement industry.

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