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Ene-Farm for Apartment Available from Next Spring the LATEST THE LATEST NEWS NUMBER 212, 2013 FCDIC Ene-Farm for Apartment Available from Next Spring Arranged by T. Homma 1. Governmental Measures Nishinippon Shimbun, & The Shizuoka Shimbun, (1) MOE October 15, 2013; The Nikkei, Architectures, The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) will Constructions & Engineerings News (Daily), The increase support for experiments and technologies to Japan Agricultural News, Kanagawa Shimbun, The advance the prevention of global warming. Costs of Chunichi Shimbun, Minami-Nippon Shimbun, FC buses and generation systems using water and Shimotsuke Shimbun, Jomo Shinbun, The sewage will be subsidized as promotions for the Yamaguchi Shimbun, Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun, transportation, building and renewable energy fields. Fuji Sankei Business i, The Kahoku Shimpo, The The ministry will encourage the reduction of Fukushima Minyu Shimbun & Iwate Nippo, October greenhouse gas emissions by backing up new 16, 2013) technologies, and also strengthen a new taxation (3) MLIT scheme for countering global warming. The majority The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and of the promotions are infrastructure such as Tourism (MLIT) will take stronger measures against transportation and public facilities. MOE will help global warming for sewage treatment. The measures projects to improve the reliability and durability of focus on three areas; reduction in nitrous oxide (N2O) battery systems to mount fuel cells (FCs) in large emission at sludge incineration, energy saving during busses as well as the body structure of busses as the sewage treatment and utilization of biomass in sludge. transportation support. As soon as these technologies Related technology tests and experimental activities are developed, they will investigate higher standards for saving and creating energy are expected to for the fuel efficiency of busses to promote FC encourage local governments to introduce these mounted busses. This measure has been started since processes. The energy saving measures support FY 2013 and will support more projects later. (The mainly inverter controlling technologies and, micro Nikkei Business Daily, October 1, 2013) bubble diffusers which supply oxygen more efficiently. (2) Japanese Government The ministry plans to use organic matter in sewage On October 15th, at the cabinet meeting the Japanese sludge which is collected at the treatment works and government approved the “Bill for the Industrial estimated annual output of 4 TWh as a generation Competitiveness Enhancement Act” to increase potential. However, the usage rate of biomass capital investments for restructuring of businesses generation stays 13%. Extraction of hydrogen from intensively in five years including the establishment sewage sludge gas is included in the themes for FY of a “System of Special Arrangements for Corporate 2014 of “Breakthrough by Dynamic Approach in Field Tests” which gives exceptional provisions of Sewage High Technology Project (B-DASH Project)”. certain regulations for individual enterprises. The MLIT aims to establish technologies for FCs to be enforcement will start within three months of the used in sewage treatments, and to supply FCVs with official announcement. In the system, businesses hydrogen later. (The Chemical Daily, October 23, request regulations to be eased, and the deregulation 2013) will be specifically provided while safety is secured. On October 25th, Mr. Morishige, the Senior Deputy For example, a manufacturer can make tanks of fuel Director General of the Maritime Bureau, revealed an cell vehicles (FCVs) with new steel which is not intention to approach the Australian government, a currently approved for the usage as a material in this shipper, in this year about safety standards for marine system to help commercialization of the vehicles. (The transport of liquid hydrogen of which a working group 1 http://www.fcdic.com/ of the standard investigative commission is Therefore, more hydrogen filling facilities are required researching for the marine transport of dangerous for FCVs to be used widely. However, Tokyo has goods. Following this, Kawasaki Heavy Industries has limited land and higher value for the same size. Thus started a project to develop liquid hydrogen tankers governmental deregulation is required. Tokyo will aimed to finish in 2017. Although the International request to loosen the regulations to the related Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) organizations such as the Ministry of Economy, Trade currently does not contains standards for liquid and Industry (METI), MILT and the Fire and hydrogen transportation, liquid hydrogen can be Disaster Management Agency. (The Nikkan Kogyo transported provisionary if the shipper, the consignor Shimbun, October 14, 2013; The Nikkan Kensetsu and the flag state set safety standards for it until a Kogyo Shimbun, October 25, 2013) convention is prepared. The bureau plans to make the (3) Kanagawa Prefecture safety agreement between Australia an international On October 11th, Kanagawa Prefecture revealed the treaty, which allows Japan to import hydrogen from outline of the “Kanagawa Smart Energy Plan” to other countries since hydrogen producers are dotted reduce considerably the annual electricity all over the world. (The Japan Maritime Dairy, consumption in the prefecture by 2030. The plan October 28, 2013) promotes gas cogeneration systems, FCs, hydrogen and storage batteries, and encourages increasing the 2. Local Governmental Measures number of stable distributed generations as well as (1) Yokohama City renewable energy such as solar power. Also HEMS On September 30th, Yokohama City announced that and building energy management system (BEMS) subsidy application of home energy management will be supported for more use. With these actions, the system (HEMS) installation would be received during prefecture aims for 10% (that of FY 2010) reduction by the second half of FY 2013 from October 1st. Fixed FY 2020 and 15% by FY 2030. (The Nikkan Kensetsu amount of ¥10,000 will be given to households only Kogyo Shimbun, October 15, 2013) installing HEMS to provide electricity usage data. (4) Chiba City Households which will also participate in a program Chiba City will establish a subsidy scheme for to help saving electricity at high demand periods will domestic FC installations for the house owners in the receive fixed amount of ¥50,000. The city will provide city. The maximum subsidy will be from ¥10,000 to dwellings which will install photovoltaic generator, FC, ¥200,000 for an application. The city allocated a total storage battery or electric vehicle (EV) charger/power of ¥17.30 million including related expenses in the feeder with ¥50,000 for each facility as well as a fixed supplemental budget to promote energy saving ¥50,000 for HEMS. (The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, systems and renewable energy. Applications will be October 1, 2013; Architectures, Constructions & received until the budget fills or February 14th, 2014. Engineerings News (Daily), October 8, 2013) (The Nikkei Business Daily, October 16, 2013) (2) Tokyo The Tokyo Metropolis government will ask the state 3. Technology Developments of FC Elements to create a scheme to reduce the land costs of (1) Kyushu & Osaka Universities & Konica Minolta hydrogen filling stations and for deregulation On October 1st, the team led by Prof. Hideaki Kasai enabling gasoline filling stations install hydrogen at Osaka University announced that a technology had refueling facilities as well as location requirements. been developed to reduce size of solid oxide fuel cells The Japanese government plans to prepare 100 (SOFC) in collaboration with Kyushu University and hydrogen refueling points nationwide by 2015, and Konica Minolta. In this study, the oxygen ion has assessed that the regulations for installation and conduction inside an electrolyte of SOFC was found to safety need to be eased. Under current regulations, a be a phenomenon involving via quantum tunneling. hydrogen filling facility can only supply up to 20 FCVs Also, the device structure which allows the FC to on full capacity in a commercial area, because the operate at low temperature of 300 ºC was developed. Building Standards Act limits the amount to 700 Nm3. The study team applied “Hyper-Naniwa”, which is a 2 http://www.fcdic.com/ first principle calculation for quantum motion of diameter was made approximately 20 nm which was electrons in atomic nucleus and both surface and considered impossible. The product was confirmed inside of solid, to SOFC. Then they analyzed by beneficial as an electrode for FCs. The group plans to computer the electrolyte which was developed by the develop applications by advertising the advantage of group of Prof. Tatsumi Ishihara and contains metal lower material costs, and to seek research partners. such as samarium and cerium. The results show that (The Chemical Daily, October 17, 2013) oxygen ion conductivity increases by compressing the electrolyte in specific direction by 4%, and the FC 4. Business Plans of Ene-Farm operates at 300 ºC, a lower operation temperature (1) Sinanen than conventional SOFCs. The group of Prof. Ishihara Sinanen has started a test of smart houses. Their already started to create a new electrolyte using the subsidiary Shinagawa Hainen built two test houses of analysis results. Generating electricity efficiently, two stories with Ene-Farms, Photovoltaic generation SOFCs are expected to be power sources at home and systems and lithium-ion battery (LIBs) in Nonoichi for vehicles. However,
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