The company will hold live auction on April 14 to sell all or part of the assets.
Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., Hampton, New Hampshire, has announced plans to sell its Claremont, New Hampshire, energy-from-waste (EfW) facility.
To accomplish this, the company has entered into an agreement with Stuart B. Millner & Associates (SBMA), Union, Missouri, an industrial and power plant asset management company, to manage the sale. The plant may be sold completely intact and ready to operate or as separate pieces of equipment.
SBMA has begun accepting offers on Wheelabrator's behalf to purchase the facility in its entirety. If no agreement is reached prior to April 13, 2015, SBMA will auction off all or part of the assets. The live auction will take place April 14, 2015.
SBMA says that the facility includes more than 30,000 square feet of fully functional plant operation. The EfW facility is capable of processing more than 200 tons per day of municipal solid waste and offers a generating capacity of 5,000 kilowatts. The plant has been out of service since September 2013, after 27 years of operation.
Assets to be sold include:
- Turbodyne, Dresser Ind., 5MW EfW turbine
- Three Tower Tech TTX Series modular cooling towers
- 2003 CAT IT28G front loader and 2000 CAT 928-IT28G front loader
- McGraw-Edison 5000 KVA transformer
- 2002 center flow surface condenser
- 2001 Freightliner FL112 roll-off
- Numerous backup electric motors, including a large selection of spare parts
- Numerous tanks of various sizes
- Von Roll Inc. boilers, capable of 23,000 pounds of steam per hour
- Various air compressors (Quincy and Atlas)
- Turbine vacuum pump
- A variety of hoists
- Main plant building: concrete foundations and tipping floor with corrugated steel siding and cross-framed I-beams 14.5-inch wide x 12.5-inch inside the beam; plant building dimensions of 184 feet x 154 feet, and 63 feet height at the peak
- Ash building, about 52 feet x 52 feet, corrugated steel
- Workshop building about 50 feet x 20 feet
Bidders can bid in person at the Claremont facility or can register online at Bidspotter to place bids via the Internet.
SBMA is currently fulfilling requests for onsite visits. For inquiries related to site visits, inspection of the assets or turnkey offers, contact Bob Findeiss, SBMA vice president of power plant decommissioning, via email at [email protected] or call 636-390-3372.