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DATE:20/11/2017

HOD MAINTENANCE: Engr Bakare

MAINTENANCE

Tetra Operations Utility

Filling Machine Water Treatment

Packaging session Boiler

Powder Generator

Factory Lighting

1. WATER TREATMENT
Personnel: Mr Thomas
Four pumps draw water from underground water to the raw water overhead storage
tanks. The four water pumps capacity are: 7.5KW, 5.5KW, 5.5KW and 3.5KW.
From the raw water tank a pump is used to draw water to the water treatment
underground reservoir where it is gradually doused with chlorine from a dousing tank.
It is then passed to the sand filter tank to filter sand-sized particles then next to the
carbon filter tank where it undergoes finer filtration before going to the micron filter
and finally to the ultra violet chamber.
During generation of treated water, intermittent maintenance is carried out called
BACKWASHING.
Backwashing is done when sufficient amount of treated water has been generated and
the rate of water consumption is low. Processes involved in backwashing are as
follows:
a. Cycle 1: Back wash 25mins
b. Cycle 2: Brine & low rinse 15mins
c. Cycle 3: Rapid rinse 10mins
d. Cycle 4: Brine tank fill 15mins
Total time of 1hour 5mins

During the Cycle 2, brine (water and Industrial salt solution) is introduced into the
sand filter tank and rinse off.

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CARBON FILTER TANK

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SAND FILTER TANK

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ULTRAVIOLET CHAMBER

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MICRON FILTER

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 Also a compressor is used to monitor and maintain pressure (4bars) during water
treatment.

COMPRESSOR

2. BOILER ROOM/STEAM GENERATION

Personnel: Mr Adisa
Steam for use in the Manufacturing Plant is generated by An Automated boiler which
can generate as much as 3 Tonnes of steam.
The process is started by passing raw water from the overhead reservoir to the tank in
the steam room. About 2 buckets of charcoal are placed into the steam engine to serve
as ignition and Deoil Cake (DOC) is uploading from the uploader into the steam engine
which serves as fuel. Deoil Cake is made from palm kernel waste materials.
Heat energy from the fuel (Deoil Cake) is used to vapourise water into steam which is
then passed through the steam pipes from the boiler room into the factory where it is
needed for production.

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 BOILER

Front inlet where charcoal is applied into the boiler.

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BOILER ROOM CHIMNEY

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 STEAM LINE

Carries steam from boiler room into the Factory for use.

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DOC uploading line from DOC Storage room.

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3. GENERATOR SERVICING
Power generation is currently alternated between 2 sets of 620KVA 2800 Series Perkins Mikano
Generators and Utility Supply (PHCN). Either of the generating set is run at a time for production in the
factory while the second one is run for general utilities. A 60KVA Mikano Generator is also available as
backup.

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