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Saudi Arabia boasts the world’s largest crude oil reserves.
Recently, the government has positioned industrialization as
one of its national strategies. The nation is now working to
diversify its industries and to develop industrial complexes.
However, the country’s water treatment capacity has been
outpaced by the speed of industry growth, and concern is
growing over the worsening environmental problems of water
and air pollution.
Fujitsu and the Saudi Industrial Property Authority
(MODON) signed a contract for the development and opera-
tion of an environmental management system to improve the
environment in Saudi Arabia’s industrial complexes. The
system will be installed in Dammam 2nd Industrial City in the
Eastern Province, along with two other industrial cities, where
it will comprehensively measure air and water data from fixed
and mobile sensor stations. Fujitsu will then analyze the
collected data to specify pollution sources and provide consult-
ing on approaches for improvement.
Recently there has been increasing concern over the growing
environmental impact of copper. As copper mines become
deeper, copper production is producing more waste product,
and refining is using more energy. Given this situation,
resource recycling now has a more important role to play than
ever before.
Fujitsu set out to recover copper from the large volumes
of sludge* generated by the wastewater treatment process at
its plant in Nagano. One challenge to overcome was how to
recover high concentrations, because the chemicals
used in the treatment process adhered to the copper,
making it impure.
To solve the problem, Fujitsu revamped the coagulation
and sedimentation process where the chemicals were used,
and in June 2012 introduced a wastewater treatment system
Under the “Aichi Target” for halting the loss of biodiversity that
was adopted under COP 10*, governments at the national and
regional levels, NPOs, and various other parties have agreed to
take “effective and urgent action.”
In order to implement PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, and Act)
cycles for formulating strategies and conducting conservation
activities, parties need to comprehend the current status of
ecosystems. The problem is that there are limited resources for
this task, including competent surveyors and the areas that
can be covered. Moreover, organizing the collected informa-
tion also requires a lot of time and labor.
Fujitsu decided to see if it could use ICT to assist the effort
to conserve biodiversity. From fiscal 2013 we have been pro-
viding a mobile photograph system and cloud service free of
charge to 10 organizations selected through a public call for
applicants. The system allows anyone to participate in survey-
ing, from any location, simply by using a mobile phone or
smartphone to capture and send photographs of animals. This
allows for an expanded survey area. The collected data is
Thailand is also
taking steps to avoid
and minimize environ-
mental risks in light of
recent environmental
issues. Fujitsu has been
assisting research into
atmospheric pollution
monitoring and disper-
sal simulations and
transferring environ-
mental monitoring technologies at Map Ta Phut industrial
estate, a flag bearer for Thai industrialization.
Fujitsu will contribute to improve air and water conditions
at industrial estates by providing ICT solutions that make
environmental pollution visible, and Japanese expertise in
overcoming the effects of pollution.
that used functional particles to achieve high filtration
efficiency.
As a result, it became possible to recover small-diameter
copper particulates in high concentrations, dramatically
improving the sludge copper content from around 15% to
90-95%. The method also reduced the volume of sludge to a
seventh of what it had been (5 tons per month), cutting the
cost of treatment chemicals by ¥5.5 million per month.
Currently the system is operating on approximately 10% of
the total wastewater emitted from the plant, and Fujitsu plans
to increase the scope of application in stages. Fujitsu will
continue to actively promote resource recycling and waste
reduction going forward.
* Sludge: Residual solid matter left after filtering wastewater. Sludge contains
heavy metals and water.
accumulated in a cloud system, where it can be viewed. This
makes it easy for each organization to check on the status of
their environmental protection activities, and should help
conservation activities to advance even further.
The Fujitsu Group will continue to use ICT on the front lines
of activities for conserving biodiversity.
* COP 10: Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity.
Principal Environmental Activities in Fiscal 2012
Contributing to Environmentally Considerate Industrial Estates through Environmental Management Systems
(Saudi Arabia and Thailand)
Recovering High Concentrations of Copper from Wastewater to Contribute to Resource Recycling and Cost Cutting
Providing Cloud Services to Support Biodiversity Conservation Groups
An onsite inspection in Saudi Arabia
Overview of Mobile Phone System Cloud Service
Researchers
Educational
institutions
Members
of the public
Cloud Platform (Fujitsu)
Local governments
Volunteers
NPOs
Anyone can easily take
a photograph
Analysis and use of data
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