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SOCFIN CSR and Facts Palm Oil Mill Sierra Leone
SOCFIN CSR and Facts Palm Oil Mill Sierra Leone
24/02/2014 (Sierra Express Media) - The mill has been designed for a total processing of 60 ton fruits per hour.
The first phase, which we are building now, is 30 ton/hr – this will be extended in less than 2hours to a 60 ton/hr.
Extraction rate of oil will be around 22% ( or an oil production of 6,6 ton/hr resp. 13,2 ton/hr.)
The mill will provide its own electricity.
We have a steam boiler (20 ton/hr steam) that runs on the fobers of the fruits.
The steam will be used for keeping the whole process sterile to generate a turbine.
The capacity of the turbine is a 1,8MW – we will produce in the first phase 1,2MW of electricity.
We have an oil storage of 4,200 ton on site
We have a kernel storage of 600m3 on site.
The empty fruit bunches will be brought back to the fields as a natural fertilizer.
In 2nd phase we will install a kernel crusher as well. To extract the oil form the kernel.
Total mill project costs $ 27 Million US.
The mill provides work directly in the mill to 3oo persons that will be trained on high level (SL engineers), jobs indirectly: harvesting, transport, maintenance will be several hundreds more connected to the Mill.
At peak period, the mill will run 24hr/day.
The contract for the civil works has been awarded to a Sierra Leonean company SCS.
In the foundations alone we have 4000m3 of concrete.
The surface of the mill is 70.000m2
We have our own laboratory with the latest technology to provide the best quality.
An effluent treatment pawn (LAGOONS) will be built in end 2014 and it will occupy a surface of 400mx 80m (5 basins)
The project has started in March 2013 and will be finished in August 2014.
An oil storage plant will be built in the port of Freetown with a capacity of 6000 tons.
The first phase, which we are building now, is 30 ton/hr – this will be extended in less than 2hours to a 60 ton/hr.
Extraction rate of oil will be around 22% ( or an oil production of 6,6 ton/hr resp. 13,2 ton/hr.)
The mill will provide its own electricity.
We have a steam boiler (20 ton/hr steam) that runs on the fobers of the fruits.
The steam will be used for keeping the whole process sterile to generate a turbine.
The capacity of the turbine is a 1,8MW – we will produce in the first phase 1,2MW of electricity.
We have an oil storage of 4,200 ton on site
We have a kernel storage of 600m3 on site.
The empty fruit bunches will be brought back to the fields as a natural fertilizer.
In 2nd phase we will install a kernel crusher as well. To extract the oil form the kernel.
Total mill project costs $ 27 Million US.
The mill provides work directly in the mill to 3oo persons that will be trained on high level (SL engineers), jobs indirectly: harvesting, transport, maintenance will be several hundreds more connected to the Mill.
At peak period, the mill will run 24hr/day.
The contract for the civil works has been awarded to a Sierra Leonean company SCS.
In the foundations alone we have 4000m3 of concrete.
The surface of the mill is 70.000m2
We have our own laboratory with the latest technology to provide the best quality.
An effluent treatment pawn (LAGOONS) will be built in end 2014 and it will occupy a surface of 400mx 80m (5 basins)
The project has started in March 2013 and will be finished in August 2014.
An oil storage plant will be built in the port of Freetown with a capacity of 6000 tons.