ENGINEER’S REPORT

Project: Ricemill Plant of Bayugan Grains Milling Corporation

Element: Emission of Pollutants from Ricemill Plant

Location: P4 Sunkist St., Taglatawan, Bayugan City, Agusan Del Sur

Report Date: May 2, 2016

Rationale

Rice is major food mostly in Asian countries especially here in the Philippines and continues to be
the most important commodity in the Philippines, accounting forabout 15% of gross value added
in agriculture. It is grown on nearly two-thirds of the country'sarable land and is a major source of
livelihood of many small farmers and agricultural landlesshouseholds.

Milling is a crucial step in post-production of rice. The basic objective of a rice milling system
is to remove the husk and the bran layers, and produce an edible, white rice kernel that is
sufficiently milled and free of impurities.

Depending on the requirements of the customer, the rice should have a minimum number of
broken kernels.

Hull - 20%
Bran - 8%
Embryo - 2%
Endosperm -
In an ideal milling process this will result in the70%
following fractions: 20% husk, 8−12% bran depending
on the milling degree and 68−72% milled rice or white rice depending on the variety. Total milled rice
contains whole grains or head rice, and brokens. The by-products in rice milling are rice hull, rice germ
and bran layers, and fine broken. In other places/ rice mill, the rice hull considered as rice mill waste

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because of lesser market value and they stored in their rice hull bin or other places within the perimeter of
ricemill plant.

Project Description/ Operation Process

The Ricemill Plant in Bayugan Grains Milling Corporation had two components, the Ricemill and
Mechanical Dryer. They operated their ricemill and mechanical dryer to offered paddy drying services and
ricemilling services for farmers and farmers groups. Based on the data of the plant, the actual average
drying capacity of the Mechanical dryer per cropping is of 3240 MT of Fresh Palay while in the Ricemill
had a actual milling capacity of 1.75 cavans per hour.

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The rice mill is multi stage milling which undergoes a number of different processing steps, such as Pre
cleaning in dump shifter, dehusking in Huller where the ricehull are separated in the grains, Paddy
Separation in Box Blower and Tray Type Separator, Destoning in Destoner where the stones are removed,
Whitening/ Polishing in Whitener, Mist Polishing and Bagging.

LIST OF AIR POLLUTION SOURCE EQUIPMENT (APSE) AND THEIR CORRESSPONDING AIR POLLUTION
CONTROL FACILITY (APCF)

APSE APCF

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1. Rice Mill—in the process of milling rice,
dust and other impurities are emitted to
the air as pollutants. An estimated of .1%
of the total production quantity is
considered wastes or pollutants
2. Mechanical Drier
The rice mill is provided with a
mechanical drier in order to dry half-
dried “palays” and obtain the desired
temperature for milling. In the process of
drying, dusts are emitted by the blowers
of the recirculating fast driers. An
estimated of .1 % of the total quantity of
the “palays” being dried.
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1. Rice Hull and Dust Chamber
The Rice Mill is provided with a Rice
Hull Chamber designed to prevent air
pollution. The blowers of the Rice Mill
are directly connected to the Rice hull
Chamber through big sealed pipes
where rice hulls and other impurities
pass through. The Chamber was
designed to contain two (2) galvanized
funnels where rice hulls are loaded in
dump trucks for proper disposal or
stocked for our own consumption as
fuel to the mechanical drier. It has also
two big ducting which serves as a
breather. The breather drops the rice
hulls into an enclosed concrete
chamber. In this process no rice hull
would ever escape into the air.
2. Mechanical Dust Room
The Mechanical Dust Room is a
concrete building with two (2)
compartments, measuring 20.5m x 7m
and 12.5m x 7 m. Each chamber
contains three (3) chambers that filters
all dusts /exhaust air coming from the
Mechanical Drier (which is the subject
of the complaint)
1) The first chamber absorbs the
exhausts directly from the
Mechanical Drier with the fine
dusts being channeled to a
number of duct pipes and down to
the filter bags provided for the
purpose. These filter bags are
collected and cleaned right after
each cropping season
2) The second chamber collects the
extra dust not absorbed by the
dust bags in the first chamber. It
has a pressurized water sprinkler
that will moisten the dusts
preventing them from escaping
The third chamber catches the extra
dusts that escaped from the second
chamber. It has also a pressurized
 water sprinkler that will moisten the
dusts preventing them escaping into
the open air. More or less 97 %
efficient in controlling dust in the
mechanical drier.

3. Perimeter Fence—a 30-m perimeter fence

which is a combination of concrete and
galvanized iron was constructed in order to
prevent the dusts from crossing to the
adjacent area.

Solid waste of the rice mill plant like ricehull were use as fuel in furnace for drying purposes and the
remaining were disposed in the nearest livestock farm and plantation for fertilizer and litter purposes.
Wastewater generated from the Rice mill Plant are negligible because of minimal amount of utilization of
water in the mill and there is drainage system within the premises for proper wastewater management.

WASTE GENERATION DATA

Rice mill Capacity = 1.75 MT/ hour

Number of Hours Operation= 8 hours/day
Milling Recovery = 55 %
Estimated Number of days operation per year= 80 days
Estimated Ricehull Generated= (1750 kg/hour)(8 hours/day) * 20 %=
2800 Kg/ day
Annual Ricehull Generated= (2800 kg/day) * (80 days/year)= 224,000 kg = 22.4 MT / year

PREPARED BY:

ANTONIO FELIX S. NAZARENO

POLLUTION CONTROL OFFICER

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SPECIFICATION OF RICE MILL AND MECHANICAL DRIER

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RICEHULL CHAMBER

RICEHULL DUST CHAMBER AND COLLECTOR

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MECHANICAL DRIER

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FILTER BAG AND DUST COLLECTOR (MECHANICAL DRIER)

DUST CHAMBER ( MECHANICAL DRIER)

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