Removal & Transportation Of 5MW Biomass CHP Power Plant For Reinstallation In Eastern Europe
Project Background and Description
A well-known multinational beverage company had a significant number of surplus beverage process plant assets and equipment located on the East coast of Ireland. These assets were sold and required the timely dismantling, removal and shipping to various buyers, nationally and internationally.
As an Approved Contractor, Indassol Engineering Services were assigned to carry the role as Principal and Lead Contractor for the project.
Project Scope
The project scope covered multiple site setups (Hoardings, Site Cabins), controlled and permitted by Indassol Engineering within the overall boundary of the live operational site. Full project & Health & Safety documentation and the entire dismantling & removal of a significant numbers of surplus assets from 3 separate process areas.
Production assets dismantled and removed, ranged everything from small process equipment (valves, motors pumps) through to 36 large roof vessels (250HL to 2080HL)
The assets were within a live, fully operational food & beverage site, therefore work coordination with site operations was essential to avoid potential of costly site production disruption. The structure, documentation and Engineering involved in the methodical, dismantling and removal facilitated the ease of reinstallation at the new asset owner’s site.
Key Requirements & Deliverables
The main requirements and deliverables for this project were:
- To ensure all works were carried out safely, in a professional manner, without any ‘Lost Time Incidents’
- To avoid any adverse impact to the food & beverage live site operations, both logistically and environmentally.
- To avoid any adverse impact on the general public when using or closing public roads to lift and transport assets or oversized bulk items from site.
- To avoid any impact on the wider Food & Beverage site of any dust, chemical or discharges to drainage.
- To dismantle equipment using Engineering good practice, ensuring transportable sections, which facilitate easy road transportation to and re-assembly at the new asset owner’s site.
- Following removal, reinstating the site area to a safe, clean and reusable area to the complete satisfaction of the site owner.
Methodology
The project was structured from the beginning to ensure that it met all the requirements of the current site & asset owner and the new asset buyer. Flexible scheduling of activities to quickly deliver a clean reusable area for the site owner and a removal schedule which also met with the asset buyers re-installation activities.
systematic approach was initiated from the project preparation stage ensuring:
- Effective Health & Safety management from the start, maintained throughout the project.
- Scheduling of activities to ensure efficient operation whilst minimising disruption to the surrounding site and wider area.
- Assets were dismantled in a structured manner using recognised Engineering good practice.
- All equipment was recorded, marked and tagged before any intrusive work was carried out.
Project Duration
The project duration was 12 months, including project documentation, site setup, Health & Safety documentation preparation, marking & tagging, dismantling, removal and loading to transport of all surplus assets and equipment. This also included the subsequent reinstatement of the site to a safe, clean level satisfying the site owner’s future requirements for the site.
Achievements
Having successfully dismantled, removed and transported significant numbers of large and small brewery process assets without any Lost Time Injuries (LTI) after over 12 months of busy site operations.
Successfully dismantled and removed large internal vessels and other land locked equipment by creating new safe roof access points and internally manoeuvring equipment to crane lift out points.
Flexible scheduling of activities to the deliver asset owner’s removal schedule, whilst also meeting with the new asset buyers re-installation activities.
Minimising disruption to live beverage operations and surrounding high footfall tourist & public areas during internal and public road closures whilst carrying out specialist crane and haulage operations.