The project activity involves the expansion of existing geothermal space heating facilities owned and operated by Shaanxi Green Geothermal Energy Development Co., Ltd. (SGE) in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China.
The Project constructs new wells and connects old and new buildings to the geothermal district heating system. The standard space heating system employed in Xianyang City, i.e. technology that the project activity will be displacing, is coal-fired boilers. Emission reductions will be generated by the use of geothermal energy instead of the combustion of fossil fuel for space heating. Under the project activity, approximately 1.85 million m² of space heating capacity will be added to the 350,000 m² of pre-CDM geothermal space heating capacity. Average annual emission reductions for the supply of thermal energy over the first crediting period are estimated to be approximately 63,000 tCO₂e.

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The purpose of the project activity is the reforestation of lands that are currently croplands and grasslands with poor soil conditions. Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) and Instituto Forestal Nacional (INFONA) are leading the project in which they plan to plant Eucalyptus grandis, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, and Grevillea robusta (silver oak) in the project area. The selection of tree species was conducted according to the results of interviews with local farmers/communities, and by taking into consideration of carbon sequestration rates, biodiversity enhancement, soil and climate conditions, and the value of associated forest products. The project will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by CO₂ capture through the tree growth. The planted trees will also help prevent soil erosion in areas that were under-utilized or mismanaged.
The net anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks as a result of the proposed A/R project activity is anticipated to be around 30,000 tones of CO₂ equivalent during the first crediting period. REGISTERED SEPTEMBER 2009.

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The project uses a specially developed process incorporating both chemical and thermal treatment of biomass to produce high quality silica. The project will consume around 55,000 tonnes of rice husk per year, which would otherwise have been dumped in landfill sites. The project has a number of sustainable development benefits, including the production of silica from carbon neutral agricultural residues, providing a solution to the disposal of rice husk, which is causing environmental problems in the area, and sustainable new economic development.

The project activity extracts biogas from organically-rich effluent, and converts it into hydrogen via steam reforming and catalytic shift reactions. The hydrogen generated would be used in the hydrogenation process during oleo-chemical production.
The utilization of biogas effectively displaces the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as feedstock to the hydrogen production unit.

The Project will be the first in the world to utilize palm oil mill effluent for such an activity on a commercial scale. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities successfully prepared the first bio-hydrogen related methodology to be approved by the UNFCCC (AMS-III.O.) for this project.