Rice mills in the Philippines

Husk-fired power and heat sized to the mill, with availability that holds through the milling season.

The problem

Husk, bran and effluent on one side; power and heat bills on the other.

Reliability matters more than any technology pitch, because downtime in season cannot be recovered.

Most mills have been offered a boiler by a vendor. Few have been shown what their own husk can actually supply against what the mill consumes.

A residue and energy-cost screening across the mill: husk tonnage by season, dryer heat, motor load, what is bought from the grid and at what tariff.
Husk-fired steam and power where the mill's own residue covers the load, sized to the mill rather than to a catalogue.
Operation and maintenance under contract, because a boiler that is not run properly loses the margin it was built for.

Anaerobic digestion. Husk is a dry, lignocellulosic residue and does not digest; the route is thermal.
Export-scale power plants at single-mill scale. A 12 MWe plant needs the husk of a province, not of one mill.

12 MWe rice-husk biomass power plant

1.How many tonnes of paddy does the mill process per season, and what husk tonnage does that leave?
2.What is the dryer fuel today, and what does it cost per season?
3.What is the monthly electricity bill, and is there a demand charge?
4.How many months a year does the mill run?
5.Is there space for fuel storage and a boiler house within the mill boundary?

Have these to hand and the first conversation produces a number. Tell us about your site.

What the site produces, what you pay to dispose of it, and what you pay for energy. An engineer reads it and comes back with the first step.