concept will be defined in enough detail in order to define the investment cost, operating cost and support the required financial analysis.
P will provide information on the following areas:
•Technology:
−Define the efficient and economical state-of-the-art technology for producing bleached bagasse pulp which meets environmental requirements.
−Prepare basic design criteria for the mill; annual operating days, design daily production rate, efficiencies, etc.
−Material and energy balances
−Capacities for main mill departments including utilities
−Indicative mill layout
−Preliminary project time schedule
−Preliminary implementation plan
−High level assessment of the potential to utilise existing second hand equipment already available to C (C to provide list of equipment) and high level assessment of the potential for integration of utilities and services of the sugar mill. (P will not undertake any detailed on-site assessment of the sugar mill, but only indicate areas of potential integration or sharing of facilities with the sugar mill that can be investigated in more detail in a later phase of the work.)
SCOPE OF WORK
The site suitability assessment will cover various technical, land-use and infrastructure issues.
P will provide information on the following areas:
•Mill Site, Infrastructure and Logistics
−P will assess the potential to find a suitable mill site in the region; either beside the existing T Sugar mill or elsewhere in the region. If C has already identified a site, P will assess that site. (Note that P will not undertake a detailed site selection study in this phase of the work, but will assess the possibility to find a suitable site and nominate an indicative site for the purposes of estimating the project viability.)
−Site development and preparation issues (legal ownership of land, cost of the land, available area; topographic data; key climatic and seismic issues; soil conditions of the mill site; geo-climatic conditions; (no soil tests are included in the study.)
−Physical and social infrastructure facilities,
−Overall environmental setting of the site with a special focus on the identification of sensitive or vulnerable environmental issues influenced by the pulpmill operations. (This will be a key issue given the region’s proximity to the Reef and large tourism industry.)
−Availability of key infrastructure:
−Transport connections and logisitics, local transport, road, rail and port infrastructure, export harbour and shipping alternatives
−Energy supply (availability and proximity to power, gas and other energy sources)
SCOPE OF WORK
The focus on the environmental assessment will be on the potential to safely dispose of the pulp mill effluent.
P will provide information on the following areas:
•Environmental and Regulatory Issues
−The environmental emissions of from the pulp mill will be evaluated and compared to international and national requirements. The focus will be on the g
