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“This required<br />
the Moscow ring<br />
road to be closed”<br />
Sandow, Texas Generator Lift<br />
Routine<br />
A new gas-fired power station was built at<br />
Flushing. <strong>Mammoet</strong> provided routine and<br />
heavy lift services for several clients working on<br />
this project.<br />
<strong>Mammoet</strong> provided a number of mobile telescopic<br />
cranes for the civil engineering work.<br />
<strong>Mammoet</strong> also provided a CC 2800 crawler<br />
crane, assisted by an AC 500 mobile telescopic<br />
crane to assemble the boilers. The 210 ton<br />
boiler modules were transported to the site on<br />
intercombi trailers, after which <strong>Mammoet</strong><br />
installed them with cranes.<br />
During the next stage of the project <strong>Mammoet</strong><br />
used SPMTs and Intercombi trailers to transport<br />
two generators (345 tons), two gas turbines<br />
(310 tons) and two transformers (275 tons)<br />
from the offloading yard to the site.<br />
LOCATION: FLUSHING, THE NETHERLANDS<br />
JOB: HEAVY LIFTING FOR A NEW POWER<br />
STATION<br />
Moscow Generators<br />
<strong>Mammoet</strong> was commissioned to transport two generators<br />
(230 tons each) and a gas turbine enclosure (114 tons) to<br />
Moscow and install them in a power station.<br />
<strong>Mammoet</strong> Seumersteel transported the plant from the port to<br />
the site using conventional trailers. This required the Moscow<br />
ring road to be closed. <strong>Mammoet</strong> Europe then installed the<br />
plant. One generator and the gas turbine enclosure were<br />
skidded straight from the trailer onto the foundations. The<br />
second generator was lifted up with a portal and strand jack,<br />
rotated and skidded onto its foundation. The customer made<br />
some changes to the schedule and the <strong>Mammoet</strong> employees<br />
sometimes had to work under difficult conditions but the job<br />
was completed to everybody’s full satisfaction.<br />
We used our 500 ton gantry jacks to lift and transport<br />
a 300 ton generator at the Sandow power plant in<br />
Texas. The generator was originally faulty and had<br />
to be repaired. When completed, the lift plan<br />
had to be changed entirely to accommodate for<br />
new construction that was completed while the<br />
generator was under repair. A new three bay<br />
gantry tower lift system was designed. The load<br />
beams were made up of the “Troll beams”, gantry<br />
beams and convert mats for an approximate skid<br />
distance of 62 meters.<br />
The system had to be high wind stable and<br />
unfortunately, bracing could not be used do to<br />
the need to skid the generator between tower<br />
legs. The solution was to use moment connections<br />
in the top beams of the towers to achieve<br />
the needed stability both longitudinally and perpendicular<br />
to the lift beams.<br />
“Sky Pictures luchtfotografie” Arnemuiden<br />
LOCATION: MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION<br />
JOB: INSTALLING GENERATORS<br />
CHALLENGE: SCHEDULE CHANGES<br />
Power<br />
LOCATION: SANDOW, TEXAS, USA<br />
JOB: HANDLING A 300 TON<br />
GENERATOR<br />
CHALLENGE: LITTLE SPACE FOR<br />
OUR LIFT EQUIPMENT