Reliability through experience
AVOCO Hama Oil Mill, Syria
2001
Construction of a turn-key oil mill to process seeds and oils including bottling/canning and production of ghee
Customer
AL-AHLIAH VEGETABLE OIL CY – Hama – Syria
General contractor
De Smet Engineers & Contractors
Scope of works
Complete factory design, supply, construction, installation and commissioning.
Industrial operation
2001
Main sub-contractors involved
De Smet Group
Plant capacity
200 MTPD cotton and sunflower seeds
Processing units
- Seed storage and
- Dehulling section
- Cottonseed delinting section
- Full pressing and oil
- Recovery plant
- Meal grinding and
- Bagging section
- Cotton hulls
bagging equipment
Refinery plant
- continuous
- bleaching
- and filtering
- physical refining
- and deodorising
- oil/fat hydrogenation
- semi-continuous
- post bleaching
- batch soapstock
- saponification
Utilities
- Steam generating plant
- Compressed air unit
- Water cooling system
- Effluent treatment
- Emergency power generator
- Fire detection and
- fighting systems
Auxiliaries
- Electricity distribution
- Steel structure and buildings
- Workshop equipment
- Laboratory equipment
- Truck weigh bridge
