Toyo Smelter & Refinery Fuel Conversion to LNG
This project is operational in Japan. The source does not give a quantified reduction for this project.
- Status
- Operational
- Estimated reduction
- Not quantified in the source
- Countries
- Japan
- Sector
- Fuels and hydrogen
- Announced
- 28 December 2022
- Expected start
- 2023
About this project
The description is as the source gives it.
Sumitomo Metal Mining converted fuel for various facilities including dryers and steam superheaters at the Toyo Smelter & Refinery from heavy oil to LNG. This insetting project reduces direct emissions in the company's copper smelting operations in Japan. Evidence: "we've begun work on switching the fuel for our boiler and we expect ... conversion of fuel from heavy oil to LNG" — https://www.smm.co.jp/en/news/release/uploaded_files/20221228_EN.pdf
Statuses, countries and reductions are as the public source states them, and may be out of date.
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