Estimated KW for a Dried Fruit Factory

Your client seems to have provided you with very little information, and in turn your information to the forum is also sketchy.

There are several types of loads that may need to be considered:

1. Electrical loads of various machinery such as cutters, dehydrators, conveyors, lighting, air conditioning equipment, etc. This would be for designing the electrical system for this facility.

2. Heat loads that must be compensated for, such as heat conducted into the rooms through walls and ceiling, infiltration of warm air into the rooms through doors, windows, and vents; heat produced by machinery, people, and lights in the rooms; etc. This would be for designing heating/cooling systems.

3. If you are involved in the structural design, loads of interest would be weight of people, equipment, and the building itself; wind forces that might be expected at the site; seismic forces likewise; etc.

This is not a complete survey, but if you can discuss these ideas with the client, everyone can then think more usefully. If you can gather more information of this nature, and add to your initial post, you can get some good help from the CR4 forum.

This statement, "what are the equipments to be used in each area" leads me to believe the OP is so far in over his head that nothing will help.

You'll have to begin by designing the factory, before you can do the rest of his job for him.

Good Luck!

What kind of fruit do you have in mind? Mangoes, bananas, pineapple, etc. They have different processing stages and different machines needed. You have to give more information about your products as well as how much capacity or tonnage of fruits you wish to handle.

!. Go to google search

2. type in dried fruit processing

3. at least 10,000 relative web sites will be shown

4. Click on any that look promising to answer your questions.

It may be that you will wish to contact a company already in the business of drying and selling fruit. In your clients interest he may want to look at the possibility of a joint venture with an experienced importer of dried fruit.

For this activity there are foreign aid grants available from the US government along with project costs loans from exim banks.

I for one would like to see some other country than China start exporting foodstuffs to the US.

If you need further help to develop the project, give us a hoot and a hollar