Dismantle and Move 18 MW Power Plant - Punxsutawney, PA.

In the summer of 2002 our company was contracted to move an 18Mw Wartsila power plant from Punxsutawney, PA to Soyapango, El Salvador. The power plant consisted of  three 18V32 Wartsila Vasa dual fuel generating sets with heat recovery boilers and a 1.5Mw steam turbine. This combined heat and power plant originally provided up to 18Mw of power into the grid system and also provided heat for 10 acres of greenhouses.

Each unit was moved complete to reduce costs and installation time. All apertures were sealed for the journey by road and sea freight to Acajutla, El Salvador.

The units were moved by road from the site to the sea-port; due to road restrictions in Pennsylvania, special road trailers were assembled to spread the load. The total load was over 200 tons and 230 ft. long.

The dismantling and loading was completed within 6 weeks.