Partnerships In Local Enterprise Development And Governance Sustainability

Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program • •

an integrated local development strategy to Reduce Poverty And Hunger and improve the fiscal capacity of LGUs. focused on the most BASIC NEEDS for general WELL-BEING:  WATER  LIVELIHOOD

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 ENERGY  LEARNING SYSTEMS

available VILLAGE-SCALE TECHNOLOGIES and BUSINESS PLANS of projects requiring LOW START-UP CAPITAL: o Coco Foods Processing Plant (PhP 2.37 million) o Biofuel-fired Seawater Desalination System for Potable (Purified) Water Supply and Salt Production (PhP 835,000) o Biofuel-Driven Power Generation and Seawater Desalination (Php 3.15 million) o Small-Scale Iodized Salt Production Plant (PhP 2.91 million) o 1.35 MT Mini-Ice Plant (PhP 3.15 million) o 4.0 MT Cold Store for Ice and Fish Trading (PhP 1.1 million) o Popsicle and Ice-Cream Plant (PhP 500,000) o Community College of Science & Technology o and many more.

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY Biofuel-Driven Power Generation and Seawater Desalination for Potable Water Supply and Salt Production in Small Island and Remote Coastal Communities PROJECT CONCEPT: This Project harnesses local bio-fuel resources to meet two very basic needs of small island and remote coastal communities: ELECTRICITY and WATER. To bring down the operating costs and user charges of existing small diesel generating sets, the Project shall demonstrate and validate the techno-economic viability of using CRUDE COCONUT OIL as diesel fuel supplement or blend. The Project shall thus be anchored on and complement the operations of a closely related project, a village-scale coconut processing plant. The use of coconut oil as diesel substitute or fuel blend for diesel engines has already been established as technically feasible. The rising cost of Electricity to households diesel fuel and the depressed Sea and establishments prices of copra, especially in Water Condenser/ Water Evaporation these target communities who Tank Distiller absorb their higher transaction cost of copra trading, also Water Evaporation Sea Water created its economic Purified Water feasibility. The Project shall Gen-Set Diesel Concentrated Biomass Fuelfor Home & Brine Cooling Gen-Set tap the waste heat from its bioCommercial/ Fired Stage 2 & Sea Industrial diesel power plant to Desalination Consumption water desalinate seawater and Preproduce potable (distilled and heating Table Salt for Home and Bio-Fuel Oil purified) water and the bySystem Commercial/ Industrial product salt. Consumption The bio-fuel power plant shall buy the coconut oil from the village coconut processing plant at the same price as diesel fuel which, at current prices, is equivalent to the plant-gate price of copra. The latter shall in turn be able to pay the farmers better terms for their copra and even much better terms for their whole nut harvest. INSTALLED POWER CAPACITY: 60 KW PRIME MOVER: 80HP diesel engine, water cooled FUEL: 95% crude coconut oil; 5% petro-diesel ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 486,000 kwhrs of electricity; 26,000 CM of purified water; 864 MT of table salt PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM Bio-Fuel Power Generation and Seawater Desalination Plants

ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 674,400 ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 3.15 million RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 19.2% p.a. / 5.2 years FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation MSU-IIT Campus, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200 Tel./Fax: (063)223-8481/223-8077 http://soprex.wordpress.com

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

Mini Cold Storage & Ice/Fish Trading PROJECT CONCEPT/DESIGN: The Project involves the retail of block ice and trading of high-value fishes. For this purpose two (2) units of cold storage facilities shall be fabricated and installed in the Project site. One unit shall be used for storage of block ice with a capacity of 24 ice blocks or 3 MT at 125 kgs per block. The other unit, designed as walk-in to allow ease of product handling, shall be used for storage of fish with a maximum capacity of 1 MT. Fabricated all-steel, each cold store unit is estimated to weigh only 2 MT and is thus easily transportable to any remote place with road access. Using a V-type or belt-driven 3HP compressor for each cold store unit, the project can operate continuously during power outages by using a small stand-by diesel generating set of 7HP or more. For this reason, the Mini Cold Store can also be located in remote fishing villages where electricity is not available. The Project shall purchase block ice from ice plants in the capital city at the estimated price, delivered, of P130 per block and retail the ice to local consumers, primarily small-scale fishers at a mark-up of 25%. The Project shall also purchase the fish caught or harvested by the local fishers/fish farmers at an average cost of P60/kg and sell to consumers in nearby urban centers at a mark-up of 50%. OPERATING VOLUMES: BLOCK ICE – 24 blocks (3 MT)/day; FISH STORAGE: 1 MT storage, 1 MT/week ANNUAL GROSS INCOME: PhP 6.12 million ANNUAL NET INCOME BEFORE INTEREST & TAXES: PhP 1.11 million ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 1.09 million COST OF COLD STORAGE UNITS: PhP 200,000 (3 MT Block Ice Storage) and PhP 150,000 (1 MT Fish Storage) RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 102.1% p.a. / 1.0 year FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation MSU-IIT Campus, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200 Tel./Fax: (063)223-8481/223-8077 http://soprex.wordpress.com

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

1.35 MT Mini Ice Plant PROJECT CONCEPT/DESIGN: The 1.35 MT Mini-Ice Plant is designed to produce both crystal cube ice to meet the requirements of food establishments for high-quality beverage cooling ice and iced foods, e.g., halo-halo, and regular block ice for general home consumption as well as for preservation and transport of highly perishable goods such as fish and meat. For both ice products, the system filters and purifies the raw water supply, hence both are actually foodgrade. However, to meet the quality standards of high-end markets, e.g., hotels and restaurants, the system incorporates the technology of crystallizing the ice to produce the crystal ice cubes in demand in these special establishments. Using a V-type or belt-driven 5HP compressor, the plant can operate continuously during power outages by using a small stand-by diesel generating set of 7HP or more. For this reason, the Mini-Ice Plant can also be located in remote fishing villages where electricity is not available. DAILY/ANNUAL ICE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: 1.35 MT/486,000 MT SELLING PRICES: Crystal Cube Ice – PhP 35 per 10 kg bag; Mini-Block Ice (15 kg) – PhP 22.50 (PhP 1.50/kg) ANNUAL GROSS INCOME: PhP 1.2 million ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 342,378 ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 1.62 million COST OF ICE-MAKING PLANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT: PhP 870,000 RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 21.1% p.a. / 4.7 years FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation MSU-IIT Campus, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200 Tel./Fax: (063)223-8481/223-8077 http://soprex.wordpress.com

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY SMALL-SCALE IODIZED SALT PRODUCTION PLANT

PROJECT CONCEPT: This Project aims to contribute to the eradication of iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) in the Philippines which remain a serious nutrition and health concern of the country. IDDs comprise a broad spectrum of deficiencies resulting from lack of iodine in the diet which leads to the reduction of intellectual and physical capacity affecting everyone who is iodine deficient and may manifest as goiter, mental retardation, physical and mental defects, and cretinism. The Project shall establish a small-scale salt-iodizing plant in a municipality or cluster of municipalities. It shall be a forward linkage of the prospective establishment of barangay seawater desalination plants in small island and remote coastal communities to produce their own requirements of potable water and salt, and in the case of the latter, the trading of their excess supply. The production plant shall adopt the UNICEF recommended technologies as effectively adapted in various places in the country, including local fabrication of salt iodizing machines based on a suitable model developed under the UNICEF’s global micronutrient initiative. Two of the various suitable models are shown in the diagrams below:

ROLLER DRUM SALT IODIZATION MACHINE. BATCH TYPE

SALT GRINDER WITH DRIP FEED ATTACHMENT

ANNUAL PRODUCTION/SALES: 300 MT/PhP 4.5 million ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 1.073 million ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 2.91 million RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE/PAYBACK PERIOD: 36.9% p.a. /2.7 years FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY VILLAGE-SCALE COCO FOODS PROCESSING PLANT PROJECT CONCEPT: The Project adopts the concept of a Village-Scale Coco Foods Processing Plant with a daily capacity of only 1,000 nuts as the most affordable and viable initial phase of a fully integrated community coconut central. At this initial scale, the 300,000 coconuts raw material requirement can be supplied by as low as 20 hectares at the average annual production of 15,000 per hectare of a fully planted and productive coconut farm. The Project shall adopt the “wet-dry” process that eliminates the conventional copra making phase (see process flow diagram at the back page). The Project shall involve available local technologies that are adapted to local conditions. A major departure from conventional practice is the use of biomass, e.g. rice hull and/or corncobs, as fuel for all cooking and drying operations. Such a set-up allows the full recovery of the economic value of the coconut shell and husk, which are partly (in some cases fully) consumed in copra-drying and edible oil production processes. Instead of the traditional practice that takes about 3 days of copra drying, the “wet-dry” process produces coconut oil and aflatoxin-free sapal meal within 24 hours. The main product lines at this initial stage include: beverage from the nutrient-rich coconut water; gata (fresh coconut milk), virgin oil and sapal feed ingredients from the meat; and charcoal from the cocoshell. The coconut husk supply shall initially be sold as fuel to household users and delicacy makers. After attaining stable operations of the initial product lines, the village-scale plant shall expand operations and/or be replicated in other villages, and the cluster shall evolve the fully integrated municipal-level coconut central. The central shall at this point incorporate the decorticating facilities to convert the coconut husk to produce coir and peat, and grinding equipment to produce coco flour from the sapal byproduct. DAILY PRODUCTION: ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 0.934 Million ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 2.37 Million RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 39.5%/2.5 Years FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation MSU-IIT Campus, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200 Tel./Fax: (063)223-8481/223-8077 http://soprex.wordpress.com

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Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY VILLAGE-SCALE BIOFUEL-FIRED SEAWATER DESALINATION SYSTEM FOR POTABLE WATER AND SALT PRODUCTION IN SMALL ISLAND AND REMOTE COASTAL COMMUNITIES

PROJECT CONCEPT: Instead of producing only table salt as in the traditional solar salt pond system, the Project also produces purified water which constitutes about 96% of seawater. The village-scale biofuel-fired seawater desalination system: a) utilizes the available biomass resources in rural villages as source of heat energy to accelerate the evaporation process; b) captures and condenses the evaporated water, and stores the distilled (pure) water for distribution to village consumers (Figure 1).

Seawater Storage Tank

Filtration System

Filtered Seawater

Freshwater Storage Tank

Evaporation & Distillation

Seawater

Salt Cake

Grinding

Packing

Distribution Lines

Pure Water

Bottling*

Granulated Table Salt in Sacks

Granulated Table Salt in PE packs*

Bottled Water

*Optional product lines

Figure 1. Process Flow Diagram of a Village-Scale Seawater Desalination System DAILY PRODUCTION SCALE: 5,000 liters of purified water and 170 kgs of high quality table salt. ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 835,000 RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE/PAYBACK PERIOD: 39.5% p.a. /2.5 years FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT: SOPREX Foundation MSU-IIT Campus, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200 Tel./Fax: (063)223-8481/223-8077 http://soprex.wordpress.com

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