NOTE: Some content may not display correctly, including tables and figures. See PDF for full details.

I. Guidelines for Preparing Medium-and Long-Term Plans by the Type 1 Specified Business Operator that Install Factories for their Operations in the Manufacturing Industry 

1. General Manufacturing (all manufactures except four industries specified in the item “2. Specified 

Industries” hereinafter the same) 

(1) Combustion Facility 

(2) Heat Utilization Facility 

(3) Exhaust Heat Recovery Facility 

(4) Cogeneration Facility 

(5) Electrical Facility 

(6)Air Conditioning Facility 

(7) Lighting Facility 

(8) Utilization of Excess Steam and Others 

(9) Utilization of Unused Energy 

2. Specified Industries 

(1) Pulp Manufacturing and Paper Manufacturing Industries Table 1 

(2) Petrochemical Basic Products Manufacturing Industry Table 2 

(3) Cement Manufacturing Industry Table 3 

(4) Iron and Steel Industry Table 4 

I. Guidelines for Preparing Medium-and Long-Term Plans by the Type 1 Specified Business Operator that Install Factories for their Operations in the Manufacturing Industry 

(Announcement No.1 of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Transport on February 25, 1999) 

1. General Manufacturing 

(all manufactures except four industries specified in the item “2. Specified Industries” hereinafter the same) 

When the enterprises, that install factories for operations belonging to the industry classified as general manufacturing in the Type 1 Specified Business Operator, formulate their Medium-and Long-term plans, the following items shall be referred to for accuracy. 

(1) Combustion Facility 

The following facilities, systems, and technologies (hereinafter referred to as “facilities”) are useful for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples determined in the item “(1) Combustion Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures of rational use of energy regulated in the matters to be used as standards for judgment (hereinafter referred to as “standards for judgment”) by manufacturers for the rational use of energy in factories (hereinafter referred to as “objectives and measures part”). 

① Improvement of Air Ratio 

② Improvement of Heat Efficiency 

③ Ventilation Device 

④ Combustion Management 

⑤Others (Boilers and Associated Equipment) 

(2) Heat Utilization Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(2) Heat Utilization Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

① Efficient Heat Recovery 

② Improvement of the Dryness of Steam Utilization Facilities 

③ Improvement of the Emissivity of Furnace Wall 

④ Improvement of Heat Transfer Coefficient 

⑤ Improvement of Heat Exchanger 

⑥ Direct Heating  

⑦ Multi-Effect Evaporator 

⑧ Distillation 

⑨ Combined Use of the Heat in Heating Facilities 

⑩ Improvement of Heating Control 

⑪ Shortening and Omission of the Heating Process  

⑫ Improvement of the Heat-Insulation of Industrial Furnaces 

⑬ Improvement of the Insulation of Heating Facilities 

⑭ Reduction / Closed Apparatus at the Opening Part of Combustion Facilities  

⑮ Rationalization of Heating Medium Transport Pipes 

⑯ Primary Treatment of Heated Materials 

⑰ Thermal Storing Device 

⑱ Heating by a Vacuum-Steam Medium 

⑲ Others 

(3) Exhaust Heat Recovery Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(3) Exhaust Heat Recovery Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

① Heat Insulation 

② Thermal Storing Device 

③ Effective Use of Exhaust Heats of Heated Materials 

(4) Cogeneration Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item“(4) Cogeneration Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

① Cogeneration Facility 

② Remodeling of Bleeder Turbine and Back-pressure Turbine 

③ Others 

(5) Electrical Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(5) Electrical Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

① High/Efficiency Motor 

② Revolution-Control Device 

③ Improvement of Power Factor 

④ Measurement Management Device 

⑤ Electric Heating Facility 

⑥ Others 

(6) Air Conditioning Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(6) Electrical Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

(7) Lighting Facility 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(7) Lighting Facility” of “1. Energy Consumption Facilities” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

① High-Efficiency Lighting Fixture 

② Automatic Control System 

(8) Utilization of Excess Steam and Others 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(2) Utilization of Excess Steam” of “2. Other Rational Uses of Energy” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

(9) Utilization of Unused Energy 

The following facilities are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures determined in the item “(3) Utilization of Unused Energy” of “2. Other Rational Uses of Energy” of the objectives and measures part of the standards of judgment. 

2 Specified Industries 

When the enterprises, that install factories for operations belonging to the energy consuming industries classified as pulp manufacturing and paper manufacturing industries, petrochemical basic product manufacturing industry, and cement manufacturing and iron steel industries in the Type 1 Specified Business Operator, formulate their Medium-and Long-term plans, the following items shall be referred to for accuracy. 

(1) Pulp Manufacturing and Paper Manufacturing Industries 

The facilities described in the “Table 1”are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures with regard to the major processes raging from pumping process (Kraft pulp (KP), mechanical pulp, and recycled pulp), papering process (paper and paperboard) to power process and other major energy consumption facilities in the pulp manufacturing and paper manufacturing industries. 

(2) Petrochemical Basic Products Manufacturing Industry 

The facilities described in the “Table 2”are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures with regard to the major processes raging from naphtha resolution process, high temperature separation, compression process, compression process by freezing to low temperature separation process in a naphtha resolution plant and other energy consumption facilities and heating furnace, reaction operation, compression operation, evaporation operation and separation operation and other energy consumption facilities in other plants in the petrochemical basic products manufacturing industry. 

(3) Cement Manufacturing Industry 

The facilities described in the “Table 3”are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures with regard to the major processes raging from grinding process, firing process, finishing process, and other energy consumption facilities in the cement manufacturing industry. 

(4) Iron and Steel Industry 

The facilities described in the “Table 4”are valid for preparing Medium-and Long-term plans as the specified examples of the facilities for achieving the objectives and measures with regard to the major processes raging from iron making process (cokes process, sinter process, and blast furnace process), steel making process, steel rolling, metal working, and surface treatment process, ferroalloy manufacturing process, wire drawing process, drawing process to cast iron pipe manufacturing process and the other major energy consumption facilities in the iron making industry with blast furnace or electric furnace, iron making industry and steel making and steel rolling industry without blast furnace, steel stock manufacturing industry, surface treatment steel stock manufacturing industry, and cast iron pipe manufacturing industry without steel making (except surface treatment steel stock), major processes raging from smelting process, casting process finishing process to heat treatment process and the other major energy consumption facilities in the pig iron cast manufacturing industry and malleable casting manufacturing industry, major processes raging from steel making process, casting process, cast finishing process, heat treatment process to machining process and other major energy consumption facilities in the cast steel manufacturing industry, major processes raging from material cutting process, heating process, forging process, heat treatment process mold forming process to finishing and inspection process and the other major energy consumption facilities in the forged products manufacturing industry, major processes raging from steel making process, pit casting process, heating process, forging process, excess material cutting process, heat treatment process to machining process and the other major energy consumption facilities in the forging steel manufacturing industry. 

Table 1 

Table 2 

(Naphtha-cracking plant) 

(Other plants) 

Others 

1. Heat integration with other plants  

2. Introduction of advanced control ① Digital-control system by means of a control computer 

②Online-optimization control system of the entire plant 

3. Improvement of process 

①Omission and integration of processes 

②Technology of low pressure of processes 

4. High-efficiency kneading machine  

5. High-efficiency extruding machine 

6. Machine for gasification and liquefaction from waste and waste-liquid 

7. Generator for gasification and liquefaction from waste and waste-liquid  

8. Machine for producing solid fuel from waste 

9. Generator utilizing solid fuel of waste 

10. Energy-conservation type sludge-dehydration device 

Table 3 

Table 4 

(Iron making industry with blast furnaces, iron industry and steel manufacturing / rolling industry without blast furnaces, steel stock manufacturing industry and surface treatment steel stock manufacturing industry without steel manufacturing) 

(Pig-iron cast manufacturing industry and malleable-casting manufacturing industry) 

(Cast-steel manufacturing industry) 

(Forged products manufacturing industry) 

(Forged-steel manufacturing industry)