Engineer’s Report for Application for Permit to Operate Air Pollution Installation of VM Agbayani Rice Mill

ENGINEER’S REPORT

Kind/Name of Project : Vincent Agbayani Ricemill

Location : Tadiangao, Kaligtasan, Bongabong, Or. Mindoro
Owner : Mr. Vincent Agbayani
Address : Tadiangao, Kaligtasan, Bongabong, Or. Mindoro
Type of Machine : Cone Type Rice Milling Machine

A. Flowsheet and Description of the Manufacturing Process

A.1 Manufacturing Flowsheet of Cone-Type Rice Milling Machine

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A.2 Description of the Manufacturing Process

The Rice milling is the process that helps in removal of hulls and brans
from paddy grains to produce polished rice. Palay or paddy (threshed unmilled
rice) is placed into the main receiving palay bin for storage and then fed into
the single deck palay sifter for sieving and removal of impurities. The cleaned
palay is loaded into the single bucket elevator and moved to the bin for palay
for storage and then it goes to the paddy husker for primary husking or husk
cracking. The mixture of brown grains and unhusked paddy goes through the
V-type “Pinawa” sifter for sieving to remove the husks and for separation of
brown rice and unhusked palay and then the unhusked palay are loaded into a
single bucket elevator and transferred to the bin(for palay return) for storage
and from there it goes to the paddy huller for rehusking. From the huller, the
husks are simultaneously sunctioned by the double C.I. exhaustor to a husk
storage bin located outside the building while the mixture of brown rice and
unhulled grains of brown rice are deposited into the double bucket elevator
(for hulled and unhulled grains) and brought to the storage bin (for hulled and
unhulled grains). then the mixture of hulled and unhulled grains through the
air trap cleaners for further removal of impurities and to the preliminary paddy
separator and eventually to the paddy separator for the separation of the hulled
grains from the unhulled ones. The unhulled grains are returned to the huller
for further removal of husk through the single bucket elevator (for unpolished
rice-Pinawa). All the hulled grains are deposited into the storage bin for
unpolished and then convered to the polishing cone for first polishing pass and
eventually to the single deck rice sifter for sieving and separation of the
polished and semi-polished grains. The semi-polished ones are loaded in the
single bucket elevator are deposited into the storage bin for semi-polished rice
and then moved to the air trap cleaner for removal of impurities.
Simultaneously, the bran (coarse and fine) is collected by the cyclone rice
collectors. From the air trap cleaner, the polished, cleaned and sooled rice is
sunctioned to the double B.I. exhaustor and finally deposited into the storage
bin for cleaned, cooled and polished rice - the finished product.

A.3 List of Air Pollution Sources Equipment (APSE) and Corresponding Air
Pollution Control Facilities (APSF) and Description of Use/Mode of Operation of
Each
a. Palay Sifter - a machine used to separate the palay or paddy from hay
and other impurities by running/sifting them through sieves of predetermined size.
A device with sieve run by machine for winnowing palay to remove the
impurities.

b. Bucket Elevators - elevated containers for palay, hulled/unhulled

grains, and polished/unpolished rice from which the materials are transferred to
other sections of the rice mill by conveyors through an opening at the bottom.
The process of loading and unloading are subject to wind which can cause air
pollution consisting of flying fine particles of hay, husk/hulls and bran.

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c. Paddy Huller/Husker - a machine that breaks and removes the husk or
palay, the process of which can cause air pollution with flying fine husk and other
impurities.

d. Paddy Separator - a machine used to separate the paddy from the

impurities by running them through a series of different sizes, the process of
which can cause air pollution with fine particles of impurities.

e. Husk Exhaustor - a suction device run by machine used to draw in husk

from the huller/husker and deposit same into a storage bin located outside the
rice mill building, the process of which can cause air pollution with flying fine
husks/hulls.

f. Polishing Cones - a device run by machine used to polish hulled/husked

grains, the process of which can cause air pollution with fine hulls/hull powder.

g. Rice Sifter - a machine used to separate the polished from the semi-
polished/broken grains by sifting/running them through a series of sieves of
different sizes, the process of which can cause air pollution with flying fine hulls.

h. Rice Exhaustor - a suction device run by machine used to draw

in/suction polished rice from the polisher and air trap cleaner to the storage bin
for polished rice (finished product), the process of which can cause air pollution
with flying fine hull dust.

A.4 List of Corresponding APCF and Description of Use

a. Suction Blower - a device for producing a current of air for moving or

raising husks/dust pneumatically. It is installed to collect hay from the palay sifter
that would otherwise caused air pollution.

b. Cyclone - a centrifugal device installed at the paddy hullers/huskers and

palay separator for separating and collecting husk from the grains that would
otherwise cause air pollution.

c. Air Trap Cleaner - enclosed devices used to trap and remove dust and
other impurities from the grains, which polished grains from the 1st pass polishing
cone go through.

d. Dust Aspirator - instrument installed at the 2nd pass polishing cone for
collecting hull dust by suction that would otherwise pollute the air.

e. Husk Disposal Storage House - a structure constructed outside the rice

mill building for storing husks in order to prevent any scattering or blowing away
of the husks by wind that could cause air pollution.

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B. One (1) Unit Standby Generator Set

B.1 Specifications

The standby generator set is another air pollution source equipment

with the following specifications:

BRAND ISUZU C240

RATED POWER STD 25 KVA
RATED VOLTAGE 220
FUEL DIESEL
FUEL CONSUMPTION 5 lts/hr.

C. Flowsheet and Description of the Manufacturing Process

C.1 Manufacturing Flowsheet of Mechanical Drying Machine

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C.2 Description of the Manufacturing Process

A mechanical dryer machine removes water from wet grains by forcing either
ambient air or heated air through the grain bulk. The same quantity of grain is recycled
through the dryer until the final moisture content is reached.

Wet grains are loaded to the intake hopper of the elevator that conveys grains to the
dryer. Air is drawn into the dryer by an axial fan. The air is heated by a biomass-fed furnace
before it enters the dryer. Grains moving down the drying columns are exposed to hot air and
moisture is removed as hot air passes across the drying columns. The exhaust moist air is
sucked by the fan out the dryer. On the other hand, discharged grains are conveyed by the
auger to the elevator and are recirculated to the top portion of bagging bin. Lastly, dried
grains will be directed to the sacks.

VINCENT VIR M. AGBAYANI

Managing Head

CESAR MARASIGAN
PCO

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Mechanical/Chemical Engineer