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Jamaica Biofuels Report - Ministry of Energy

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ANNEX IIPilot Project IdentificationPilot Project: Frome Estate – Electric Power CogenerationThis pilot project entails a complete refurbishing <strong>of</strong> the Frome Estate to turn it into a modern sugar milland sugar refinery equipped with a 29 MWe cogeneration power plant, as the schematic below shows.According to Mukherji Associates, who have inspected the estate, the current mill infrastructure is indisrepair and deemed obsolete, hence no effort to salvage it is recommended. Instead, new equipmentshould be purchased aiming at an efficient and cost-effective operation.Figure 1: Electric Power Generation with refined sugar and molassesAt a glance, the key operating parameters <strong>of</strong> a refurbished Frome Estate are as follows:(1) Sugar MillCultivated land: 4,800 hectares (ha)Sugarcane production: 408,000 tonnes/yr (average yield: 85 tonnes/ha)Sugarcane purchased: 488,940 tonnes/yrCrop period: 179 days/yrHarvest method: Manual (70%) and mechanized (30%)(2) Sugar RefineryRefined sugar production: 65,000 tonnes/yrMolasses production: 32,341 tonnes/yr(3) Cogeneration PlantPower production: 29 MWPower for export: 18 MWElectricity exported: 142,350 MWh/yrBoiler pressure: 65 barFuel used:o Bagasse: 313,287 tonnes/yr for 179 days/yro Wood: 97,105 tonnes/yr for 186 days/yr85

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