| Philippine San Miguel Corp. eyes on diversification in the Energy Sector |
MANILA: San Miguel Corp., Southeast
Asia's largest food and drink group, is diversifying further in the utility sector.
In December last year, San Miguel acquired the Government Service Insurance System's 27 percent stake in
power utility giant Manila Electric Co.
for around P30 Billion and has agreed
to buy up to 50.1 percent of giant oil
refiner Petron Corp. for P32.2 billion.
San Miguel, through unit San Miguel
Energy Corp., is expanding its investments in the power sector by joinning biddings for government owned assets. San Miguel Energy has submitted to the Power Sector Assets and liabilitys Management Corp. a letter of intent to
acquire the 620 megawatt combinedcycle power plant facilities in Limay, Batangas. |
SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION
AWARDS HAMADA GROUP THE
SUPPLY OF FLUIDIZED BED
BOILERS FOR ITS FOOD PROCESSING
AND BREWERY
PLANTS.
Manila: SMC awarded Hamada Group the
supply of biomass-wastes fired Fluidized Bed
Boilers for its Brewery in San Fernando,
Purefoods-Hormel in Cavite and Ginebra San
Miguel in Bacolod within the year. The boiler
system will be equipped with pollution control
equipment that is to comply with the R.A. 8749
otherwise known as the Philippine Clean Air
Act. SMC's plan also includes the brewery
plants in Polo, Cebu and Davao. In line with
its fuel-saving and diversification plan SMC
will go for indigenous renewable biomass
wastes fuel and may even consider the use of
coal over the long run. It was learned from
reliable sources that San Miguel Corp is interested
to purchase majority stake in one of the
biggest coal mining companies in Indonesia. |
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| Demand of Biomass FBC Boiler is
increasing in Japan with Government
subsidy. |
TOKYO: In line with the worldwide
movement to reduce CO2, Japanese
government is now helping industries
by extending Financial assistance as
big aqs 30% on the investment of equipment
for utilization of biomass energy
to replace petroleum fuel. There are
many chicken paultry with 300,000
chicken and 10,000 chicken produce
as big as one ton of Chicken Manure
.so 300,000 chicken produce 30ton of
manure everyday (30% wet base).
Paultry is equipped dryer for the manure
before it is discharged and dried
up to 30% water content. For this size
of poultry, we will reccommend 3-4
ton steam boiler and to generate 100
KW by using the back pressure turbine
of SHINKO TURBINE WORKS of
Japan. Back pressure will be utilized
for Poultry in various sectors. |
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| Pelletizing of Biomass FuelBoiler Illustrate at the right side (Model
SHL) can accommodate various kind
of biomass fuel without pelletizing. But
for Fluidizing Bed, those fuel with very low density and/or fiberous condition
fuel may be better to have it pelletized/
compressed like in this picture. Pelletizing
machine is available to fit various
condition of biomass. |
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| Rice Husk Boiler |
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HOCHIMIN CITY/VIETNAM: Cai
Lan Oils & Fats Industries Company
Ltd of Malaysia has several vegetable
oil refineries in Vietnam. Hamada Boiler
made its remark- able success to install
first in the history, 100% rice husk firing
boiler. What is remark- able is in the
design of combustion system, that uses
specially designed rice husk burner to spray the rice husk into the furnace of and almost 80% of ricehusk burns
in the air in suspension,
then the
rest of 20% will
fall onto the heavy duty chain stoker running slowly at hte
bottom of the furnace. This is a very
unique system of rice husk combustion
without necessity to make briquet of
rice husk like in the picture. For Chain
stoker system if burner is not used shall
have to use briquetted rice husk. In
Vietnam, rice husk will cost about Dong
500 per KG (price delivered by boat
along the river bank if your factory has
access to the river) that is about
US$0.0277 per KG($27 per ton). But
this price is a raw rice husk without
compressed or made into briquet. If
compressed, cost will become almost
double althoug transport cost will be
reduced. |
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