Wilmar Vegetable Oil Refinery Plant
Tema Greater Accra Ghana
Client: Wilmar Africa
Contract Sum: $5M
This entire development which is on a 14 acre land overlooking the Tema Port started in 2011 and was completed in 2013. Dartwood Construction was involved in the design and construction of all internal concrete roads and drains, Transformer and generator building, Bleaching Earth building, Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), Biomass & Boiler building and the Packing plant. The Packing plant alone has a footprint of 136m x 60m.
TRANSFORMER & GENERATOR BUILDING: This is a reinforced concrete framed single storey building complete with flat concrete roof. It consists of the MCC room, Transformer room, MV room, Synchronisation room, toilets and a large concrete apron externally which houses the power generators. There is an extensive network of underground cable trenches of varying depths which had to be carefully worked out with the process Electrical engineer.
BLEACHING EARTH WAREHOUSE: This is a reinforced concrete framed single storey building with steel roof trusses and longspan aluminium roofing sheet covering. It has a large warehouse space (18m x 24m), Technical store, Chemical store, Workshops, Locker room and Toilets. Externally, there is a 3 meter wide concrete apron all around the building.
EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT (ETP): This is a steel framed building with steel roof trusses and longspan aluminium sheet wall cladding and roof covering. It consists of a Laboratory, MCC room, Blower room, Dosing Chemical area, Filter press area and RO plant.
