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As part of its expansion strategy, your company partnered a 10-ton/h, 6000h/yr padi miller company to set up a new joint-venture company to go into

As part of its expansion strategy, your company partnered a 10-ton/h, 6000h/yr padi miller company to set up a new joint-venture company to go into products based on the rice bran layer and germ. Your task is to conduct a hierarchical conceptual process design to produce rice bran oil as the model product from the waste. Rice bran obtained during milling is 10% w/w of padi milled. The rice milling company charges RM1000 per ton of rice bran waste. The bran contains 30% w/w oil. 97% w/w of rice bran oil is extracted by solvent extraction using hexane. The hexane is fully recovered and is re-used. The capital cost of equipments for the solvent extraction plant of capacity to process all the rice bran waste is RM50 million. Rice bran oil is sold at RM15 per Kg. Outline how you will accomplish your tasks.

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