Xinavane Sugar Mill

XINAVANE SUGAR MILL

Plant Expansion
Location: Mozambique | Client: PGBI GROUP

Xinavane Sugar Mill

Project Description

In October 2006, PGBI Group was commissioned to prepare a Class II cost estimate for the expansion of Tongaat Hulett Sugar’s Xinavane Sugar Mill, situated on the banks of the Incomati River, approximately 136 km north west of Maputo in Mozambique. The expansion aimed to increase the capacity of the mill from 150 tcph to 380 tcph. The project was approved in December 2006 and PGBI was appointed on an EPCM basis to undertake the factory expansion programme over a period of 30 months.

PGBI appointed Greene Consulting Engineers Pty (Ltd) for the project management of the civil- and structural engineering portion of the work. Greene was also appointed for the civil- and structural engineering design and the construction monitoring services of the expansion project. This expansion of the Xinavane Sugar Mill was successfully completed in 2009.


 

Project Scope

The scope included project management of the civil and structural steel portion of the project, including a full time resident engineer, and the following designs:

  • The structural design of various piled foundations for process vessels and equipment
  • The piled foundations had to be designed for high static- and dynamic loading

 

Cane diffuser foundations

Boiler feed water tank

De-watering mill foundations

Sugar loading silos

New crystaliser base

20 MW turbine alternator base


The structural design of footings for various structural steel buildings, pipe racks and conveyor supports

 

180 tph boiler support structure

Mill house extension

20 MW turbine alternator building

Main carrier (conveyor) extension

TA pipe rack


The structural design of various reinforced concrete buildings

 

Cane yard MCC building

Boiler MCC building


Design of modifications to the storm-water reticulation

 

Modifications to the storm-water reticulation

Modifications to the storm-water reticulation


Design of a new 24 meter-long weighbridge

 

24 meter-long weighbridge

24 meter-long weighbridge

24 meter-long weighbridge


Construction of the injection water cooling tower


Total Project Value: US $ 150 million



  • Completion of Project

    100%

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