DON MARIANO MARCOS MEMORIAL STATE UNIVERSITY MID LA UNION CAMPUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CITY

OF SAN FERNANDO

ACCOMPLISHMENT REPORT IN IT 141 AND IT 142

PREPARED BY: _________________________________ MARK ANTHONY G. BANAYAT

NOTED BY: ____________________________ ENGR. DOMINGO FLORA

SUBMITTED TO: __________________________________ ENGR. JAKE TYRONE SOMERA

COMPANY PROFILE

OUR SERVICES By establishing good personnel relations to ensure loyalty of not only consumers but also our own people, thereby improving the overall well-being of the organization. PRODUCTS 14-14-14 16-20-0 *The capacity is 100,000 tons/annum

CORPORATE HISTORY
Soil Technologies was founded in 1982. In 1983, the company received a $2.5 million investment for research and development in the area of sustainable agriculture. During 1983-1986, Soil Tech's research focus was related to agronomic applications for cyanobacteria and microalgae to solve soil mechanical problems and reduce synthetic fertilizer requirements. The company began product commercialization activities in 1985. Markets included crop farms, horticulture, and the golf course and landscape maintenance industries. In 1990, the company received funding from the state of Iowa to develop biofungicide products for agricultural and turfgrass applications. Since the successful completion of this project, the company has been active worldwide in the development, manufacturing and marketing of numerous biopesticide, biofertilizer and botanical pesticidal product technologies. In 1999, Soil Tech launched an online catalog for "E-Commerce" to market its products to customers. The targeted applications are gardens and home lawns. The online catalog markets under the name of America Natural Products Co. The URL is http//www.americanatural.com. Today, as demand increases, Soil Tech continues to acquire and develop safe and natural technologies that meet the growing needs of agri-industry. With a worldwide base of distributors and customers for its products, Soil Tech is uniquely positioned to help growers reap a good harvest from over 20 years of experience with sustainable agricultural technologies.

ACCOMPLISHMENT
November 21, 2011, when we first step at Soiltech. We have our safety orientation program conducted by the On-The-Job Training coordinator of this company, Engr. Domingo Flora. Our training started at 4:00 PM on the same day. We are assigned at plant 2 of the manufacturing company where in a 600 hp fire tube boiler is used. We first met sir Darwin Hufana, the operator on duty. He taught us on how to start and stop the boiler. He discussed that before starting a boiler, the fuel must first be pre heated. And when the boiler pumped water press the blower button, then the ignition and lastly the main flame button consecutively until it reaches the required pressure to produce steam to the granulator. The next day, I started my duty at 4:00 PM. During the last shift which is 4:00 PM to 12 midnight, we only have the operation of the boiler. According to my observation, during 1:00 to 3:00 AM the pressure of the boiler reaches to 860 psi and it is continuously working. From 3:00 to 5:00 AM the pressure is 350 600 psi. During 5:30 to 6:00 AM it reaches 850 900 psi. When it reaches 900 psi at 6:25 AM the boiler automatically shut downed because it reaches the highest pressure. Two things might be the reason when the boiler automatically stops, it is either the pressure reaches to 900 psi or the boiler has insufficient supply of water or they called it low water. The operator advised us that we should not wait until it automatically shut down. Before the pressure reaches 900 psi, we should shut it down. At 7:23 AM, the boiler blows down for the preparation of the next shift. On the next few days, we only operated the boiler, and checked the furnace bunker consumption alternately. Every hour, we also read the meter fuel of the furnace. November 25, 2012 is the day when I encountered a problem on a boiler of the plant. The operator said that the pipes of the bunker fuel did not reach

its heating value so there is no ignition happened. The operation of the boiler stopped. I, together with the operator checked the boiler clearly and cleaned the waste materials that came out from the boiler. After how many hours, the boiler returned to its normal state and the operation continues. On my next duty, we moved to another boiler which is boiler no. 4 of the same plant because boiler no. 3 has too much carbon waste. Boiler no. 4 is also a fire tube boiler but it is smaller than that of no. 3. The procedure of starting and shutting down is also both the same. During the first two and a half hours of the same day, I operated the boiler and read the furnace fuel consumption. After that, I went to the processing unit to observe the procedure in making triple 14 fertilizers. The process started at the mixer or miller. The raw materials first go to the mixer, and by a conveyor and an elevator it will go to the granulator so that it will come out as granules. The next station is to the dryer and after drying the granules will go to the 3 screens of the processing plant by the use of conveyor and again elevator. The first screen filtered the oversize granules which will return to the mixer and repeat the process. The other screens filtered the produced product going to the conveyor and to the hopper and lastly packed ready for trucking. As I observed, the most crucial state of the process is in the granulator. If the granules are too fine, there is no production happens and if the granules are too large there is less production. So, it is not easy to produce a normal granule size. Until the last day of our training, we only operated the boiler, checked the furnace consumption and read the meter fuel consecutively.