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Pinch technology has been advancing since it emerged in the 1970s.

The first generation of pinch technology applied analysis to “process manufacturing equipment”.
In the second generation, the technology has been applied to factory infrastructure parts, called
“steam systems” or “energy systems” comprising elements such as boilers, turbines and steam
headers. Both have been applied to single factories.
Chiyoda Corporation has investigated how heat is used in oil refineries and in petrochemical factories,
considering the ideas that the two could share heat and energy, and that energy systems are a universal
requirement of factories. Until now, second-generation pinch technology has been applied to individual
factories, but Chiyoda’s research studied the potential for broadening the scope to analysis of energy
sharing between multiple factories in petrochemical complexes. It led to the development of the second-
generation factory complex edition of the technology, called “Area-wide Pinch Technology”.
One tool in the area-wide pinch technology analyzes the transfer of heat among the energy systems of an
industrial area (among multiple plants). This can show that there is excess heat recovered from the
exhaust heat (left side of the figure) that can be given to the heat demand side (right side of the figure),
which will lead to energy saving.

Thermal profile (SSSP) analysis of the entire estate

An example of the analysis Solid line: Target

(of a certain area) Broken line: Current state

Optimization of the steam

generation level

Recovery and utilization of

low pressure steam

Optimization of the steam

usage level
Heat transfer
between plants

Recovery and utilization

of hot water
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The results demonstrated that in the local area

there was scope for theoretical energy saving
equivalent to approximately 640,000kL of oil/year
in the Chiba refinery complex as a whole, through
measures such as energy system optimization.

That is a major energy saving, equivalent to one

day’s crude oil consumption for Japan as a whole.

also

Aerial view of the entire Chiba Industrial Area

Overseas Being installed in the largest industrial estate in Thailand, the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate
Chiyoda Corporation is conducting an analysis on
energy sharing among the 15 plants selected from
a group of petroleum and petrochemical plants in
the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate using the
Area-wide Pinch Technology with support from
NEDO and the Ministry of Industry of Thailand.
The energy saving potential of the entire estate
and a draft energy conservation project for the
estate will be determined as the results of the
analysis by the end of March 2014.

Sustinable Business Development Section, Strategic Business & Investment Management Unit
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Prefecture 220-8765, Japan
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URL: http://www.chiyoda-corp.com/