Power Generation

Electrical generation plants incorporate the tall, heavy structures necessary to support boilers, precipitators, scrubbers, stacks, and turbine generators. Decommissioning usually involves asbestos abatement and PCB removal.

PSEG Sewaren Plant Aerial View – Sewaren, NJ

Power house and taller stack to be demolished.

PSEG Sewaren Plant Initial Boiler Removal – Sewaren, NJ

The front section of the boiler house is severed and rolled into the turbine generator area.

PSEG Sewaren Plant Boiler Structure Collapse – Sewaren, NJ

The boilers and supporting structures are dropped into the area adjacent to the operating turbine generating room.

PSEG Sewaren Plant Stack Removal – Sewaren, NJ

A generating station including one turbine generator, boilers, precipitators, and stack is removed from an active electrical generation facility, preserving the adjacent power house, clarifiers, and fuel storage tanks.

Power House at United States Steel Southworks – Chicago, IL

A single large boiler structure remains after demolition of an entire power house. Columns which support the boiler are carefully pre-cut to facilitate the desired collapse.