Oilseed crushing plant in Mykolaiv region plans to build refining and packaging facilities

Lux-Oil plans to reconstruct its oil extraction plant in Mykolaiv region, according to a notice on the planned activity published in the Unified Register for Environmental Impact Assessment.

According to the document, the reconstruction project includes the construction of a seed drying complex, an oil refining and deodorisation facility, a packaging facility, storage tanks for finished products, a cooling tower and local wastewater treatment facilities.

The refining and deodorisation facility will have a capacity of 200 tons of oil per day, while the packaging facility will have a capacity of 90 tons per day. The storage tanks for finished products will have a total capacity of 1,400 cubic metres. The project also includes the construction of a grain drying complex with a capacity of 4.5 MW.

To support the new production facilities, the company plans to install a 500 kW liquefied gas steam generator, two solid-fuel boilers using sunflower husks, as well as a pumping station, cooling towers and local wastewater treatment facilities with a capacity of 5 cubic metres per hour.

At the same time, the capacity of the existing oil extraction plant will remain unchanged. The facility will continue to process up to 1,000 tons of sunflower seeds, 450 tons of rapeseed and 400 tons of soybeans per day. The designed sunflower oil production capacity is 450 tons per day.