Reliability through experience
YU-CREEK Oil Mill, Belize
2005
Soybean crushing and refining plant producing vegetable oil and cake for animal feeding
Customer
Government of Belize.
Ministries of Finance and Budget Management – Belmopan – Belize
General contractor
De Smet Engineers & Contractors
Scope of works
Design, civil engineering & supply of the complete soybean plant
Industrial operation
2005
Main sub-contractors involved
De Smet Rosedowns
Plant capacity
Refining: 20 MTPD refined oil
Cake: 100 MTPD
Processing units
- Daily silo
- Cleaning of beans
- Pressing
- Decanter
- Refinery (batch)
- Oil storage
- Cake storage and bagging
- Effluent acidification tank
- Drums filling line (for inland distribution)
Utilities
- Boiler house
- Lightning system
Auxiliaries
- Steel structures
- Maintenance workshop
- Laboratory
- Spare parts