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Yokkaichi Refinery

Site Profile (as of March 31, 2007)

  • Address
    1-1 Daikyo-cho, Yokkaichi, Mie
  • Start-up
    July 1943
  • Total area
    1,175,478 m2
  • Employees
    312
  • Capacity
    175,000 barrels/day
  • ISO 9001
    February 18, 1997
  • ISO 14001
    March 20, 1998
Number of visitors to the refinery in fiscal 2006 43 visits; 469 people Working hours with no accidents (as of December 2006) 8,652 thousands hours PCB custody status

High voltage condensers 59 units
Others

Yokkaichi Refinery
Yokkaichi RefineryMAP

Number of Staff holding Environmental Qualifications (as of March 31, 2007)

Air pollution control manager 16
Water pollution control manager 15
Noise pollution control manager 4
Vibration pollution control manager 3
Dioxin pollution control manager 2
Hazardous materials officer (Class A & B) 411
High-pressure gas production safety manager (Class A & B) 273
Qualified person for energy management 27
Specially-controlled industrial waste manager 5
Engineering manager for disposal facilities of industrial waste 7
Boiler operator (Special grade) 8
Boiler operator (1st & 2nd grade) 249

Regulated Pollutants

Air pollutants

Pollutant Standard Actual Performance in FY2006
Maximum Average
NOx (m3N/hour; total pollutant load control) 80.8 60.1 23.1
SOx (m3N/hour; total pollutant load control) 109.48 63 20.5
Particulate (boiler; g/m3N) 0.049 0.018 0.013

Water pollutants

Pollutant Standard Actual Performance in FY2006
Maximum Average
COD (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 535.0 302.1 114.8
COD (mg/l) 160 (120) 13 4.2
SS (mg/l) 200 (150) 20 5
Oil content (mg/l) 1 0.7 Below measurement threshold
Nitrogen (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 697.0 138.66 36.33
Nitrogen (mg/l) (15) 3 Below measurement threshold
Phosphorus (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 80.47 2.80 0.58
Phosphorus (mg/l) (1.5) 0.89 0.42
Phenols (mg/l) 1 Below measurement threshold
Benzene (mg/l) 0.1 0.10 0.02
Note: Values in ( ) indicate daily average.

Environmental Performance (PRTR)

PRTR Listed Substances Release Volume Transfer Volume
Air Water Soil Total
Asbestos (kg/year) 0 0 0 0 5,300
Ethylbenzene (kg/year) 390 0 0 390 0
Xylene (kg/year) 1,600 0 0 1,600 0
1,3,5-trimethylbenzene (kg/year) 5.2 0 0 5.2 0
Toluene (kg/year) 6,000 0 0 6,000 0
Nickel compounds (kg/year) 0 0 0 0 17,000
Benzene (kg/year) 1,500 0 0 1,500 0
Zinc compounds (Water soluble) (kg/year) 0 2,800 0 2,800 0
Antimony and its compounds (kg/year) 0 0 0 0 1,000
Cobalt and its compounds (kg/year) 0 0 0 0 80
Molybdenum and its compounds (kg/year) 0 0 0 0 240

Note: In addition to above, we treat 2-aminoethanol, 1.2-dichloropropane, 1,2-dichloroethane, and hydrazine. The over 1,000 kg per year, the release and transfer volumes are 0 kg per year for all substances.

Yokkaichi Kasumi Power Station Environmental Performance

Air pollutants

Pollutant Emissions
NOx (t/year) 68
SOx (t/year) 33

Water pollutants

Pollutant Releases
COD (t/year) 0.3


Industrial waste

Generated (t/year) 5,308
Recycled (t/year) 5,308
Sent to landfill (t/year) 0
Energy consumption (1,000kl-crude oil/year) 14
CO2 emissions (1,000t-CO2/year) 107

Environmental Performance (energy, etc.)

Energy Consumption

Energy Consumption

CO2 Emissions

CO2 Emissions

Sulfur Oxide (SOx) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Emissions

Sulfur Oxide (SOx) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Emissions

COD Discharge

COD Discharge

Industrial Waste

Industrial Waste

Environmental Accounting

Environmental conservation costs

 
Category and Key Activity FY2006
Investment Expense
1. Business area costs Pollution prevention 21 2,561
  Global environment conservation 1 6,003
  Resource circulation 0 282
2. Upstream and downstream costs Green purchasing 0 0
  Reducing environmental impact of products 106 9,580
  Reducing sulfur content of products (57) (6,381)
  Replacement of toxic substances in gasoline (49) (3,199)
3. Administration costs   13 120
4. Research and development costs   0 0
5. Social activity costs   0 0
6. Environmental remediation costs   0 58
Total 141 18,604
Note: Recycled paper purchased: 1 million yen

Economic benefits

 
Details of Benefits FY2006
Energy conservation (cogeneration) 528
Gypsum sales 105
Ammonia recycling 140
Total 773

Environmental conservation benefits

Item FY2006
Concentration /
unit value
Environmentel impacts
(1)Benefits corresponding to worksite costs    
Resources input into business activities    
Energy input 9.85 (kl-crude/1,000kl) 18,873 (TJ)
Water input 321 (kg/kl) 19,008 (1,000t)
Related to environmental impacts and wastes generated by business activities    
Emissions to air CO2 23.90 (kg-CO2/kl) 1,254 (1,000t-CO2)
  SOx 10.1 (g/kl) 516 (t)
  NOx 7.2 (g/kl) 415 (t)
  Benzene 0.03 (g/kl) 1.50 (t)
Discharge to water COD 0.87 (g/kl) 41.9 (t)
Industrial waste Generated 139 (g/kl) 11,970 (t)
  Recycled 85 (g/kl) 9,377 (t)
  Landfill 2 (g/kl) 78 (t)
(2)Benefits related to upstream and downstream costs    
Benefits of reducing environmental impact of products    
Reducing sulfur content of products (sulfur content:mass %) (potential SOx emissions:t)
  High octane gasoline 0.0003 1
  Regular gasoline 0.0003 6
  Naphtha 0.0311 284
  Jet fuel oil 0.0005 3
  Kerosene 0.0005 7
  Diesel fuel oil 0.0007 15
  Heavy fuel oil A 0.3795 7,733
  Heavy fuel oil C 2.3463 38,695
  LPG 0.0010 3
  Total 0.4134 46,748
Reducing benzene in gasoline 0.5008(vol %) 6,940 (t)
Reduction of CO2 emissions from product use 2.5271 (t-CO2/kl) 18,260 (1,000t-CO2)

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