Holly Plant Decommissioning Project

Here is your regular scheduled update from the Holly Plant Decommissioning Project Team:

The team has begun working on removing the steam turbines.  There were no buyers available for any of the steam turbines so the team has initiated a scrapping process.  So, the workers are cutting the steam turbine’s steel to ship in transportable pieces.

This is the Holly 1 Steam Turbine.

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 This is the steam inlet and control portion of the turbine.

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 The welder is starting to remove the steam chest from the turbine.

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 Parts of the turbine that have been removed are placed in the truck bay area for pickup and shipping.

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 A view of the visible portion of the Holly 1 steam turbine and electric generator.

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 The welder slices through the main steam line coming from the Holly 1 boiler.

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Steam chest has been removed from its steam lines.

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 A view of the main steam piping from the Holly 1 boiler.   Note: The metal is quite thick in order to withstand the high pressure.

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 A welder is removing the casing bolts and nuts.

 The top of the first few bolts have been removed.

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Here is your regular scheduled update from the Holly Plant Decommissioning Project Team:

Holly 1 is asbestos free.  The team has finally finished removing all the asbestos during this portion of the abatement.  We have started the removal process of the steel throughout Holly 1.

In the image below, the asbestos and aluminum covering have all been removed from the pipes.

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View from below of the previous image.

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The welder begins the initial removal of steel pipes from Holly 1.

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Below are steel pipes that the welder has removed.

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What once housed the feed water heaters is now an empty space.

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The deaerator no longer has its asbestos jacket on.

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The boiler piping is ready to be removed.  Note, the asbestos wrapping around the valves for complete unassembled removal.

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As you can see, the plastic barrier around Holly 1 has been removed due to completing the asbestos abatement.

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This is a 1960 photograph of the feed water heater area.

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This is what the feed water heater area looks like today.

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Here is your regular scheduled update from the Holly Plant Decommissioning Project Team:

The water treatment for the plant required the use of acid and caustic as part of the treatment process which was stored in tanks photographed below.

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As you can see, this is what’s left of the tanks after being demolished.

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Below is the water treatment building.

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Inside the water treatment building.  It required a complex control system.

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The first water treatment tank begins to be toppled over.

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 Timber .. don’t forget your hard hat.

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 Ready for dismantlement and hauling!

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 The workers remove the roof and siding from the building.

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The water treatment building has no clothing.

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The big boys begin their assault on the building.

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 The big boys have taken a bite out of the water treatment building – YUM!

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The shearer continues while the excavator takes a break.

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The shearer is highly effective in bringing down the house!

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The shearer takes a break after finishing the job.

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Here is your regular scheduled update from the Holly Plant Decommissioning Project Team:

The big boys have arrived.  The TRC team has removed 196.2 tons of steel as of this Friday.  In order to remove the steel, the project needed to bring an excavator and shearer on the construction site.  With this equipment, the team is able to tear down rather quickly the peripheral structures surrounding the four boilers at the Holly Plant.  Here are this week’s pictures.

Here is the excavator on a haul truck arriving at the Holly Plant.

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 This is the shearer.  As you can see, the blade is larger than the average construction worker.

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 The excavator has demolished the fuel gas building on the right.

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 Everyone, including the excavator team, disposes the building material into a dumpster.

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 The excavator is ready to put another load of building material into the dumpster.

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 The shearer is ready for action!  Look at the jaws and watch out for holes on the construction site.  Don’t cross the red line.

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 Jaws in action!

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 Yum! The shearer removes piping and pipe racks behind Holly 2.

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 What once was the fuel gas delivery yard is now rubble…

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Here is your regular scheduled update from the Holly Plant Decommissioning Project Team:

Did you know that part of the project specifications is dust control?  We don’t want dust or other particulates to leave the site.  This is a lot of work but very worthwhile since the workers like working with clean metal. The workers used a hose connected to a fire hydrant to wash Holly Unit 1 from top to bottom.  The following pictures illustrate the clean-up and wash down of the boiler area and some of the workers beginning the initial removal of steel from the Holly Plant.

Here are the workers picking up debris before the wash down.

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It’s not rain but here comes the water!

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A worker is sweeping the water into a trench.  The water will be treated for particulates later.

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This worker wants to do a good job and is very efficient!

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These workers are pumping the water from the trench into the tanker for treatment.

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A welder begins the initial removal of steel from the Holly Plant.

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As you can see, the acid and caustic tanks used to purify water were opened to inspect the internals and verify that these containers are actually empty.

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Lastly, more images can be found in our image gallery.  Click Here.