SEA Marconi has developed and patented ISA – Inspection Sampling Audit, an innovative, easy-to-use and sustainable system designed to simplify and optimise inspection and sampling activities on transformers and electrical equipment with insulating fluids.

This system consists of two elements:

1. a sampling kit, representing an absolute innovation in the market, and
2. a dedicated app that guides and certifies inspection and sampling activities.

What performance/quality does this sampling kit guarantee?

Sea Marconi’s new sampling kit, essentially a flexible metal bottle, complies with IEC 60475 “Sampling method for insulating liquids” for the tests listed in the table below. However, despite our internal tests showing excellent performance in terms of accuracy and repeatability for all types of analysis, Sea Marconi continues to recommend using a glass syringe to sample fluids for dissolved gas analysis.
The new sampling kit is a sustainable solution aimed at replacing and surpassing, both in terms of performance and environmental impact, aluminum or glass bottles and plastic containers.

Key Advantages

Mobile App for Inspection and Sampling

For the development of this app, Sea Marconi relied on a secure, reliable, and mature market product, appropriately customized for Sea Marconi. The result is a useful, simple and fast tool. Using the app, inspections and sampling can be guided, with a series of pre-filled fields (for customers) that remind the operator of what to check and how to do it.
The app records, tracks, and certifies the sampling operator, the date, time, and location of the activity, even in the absence of data signal. It is possible to collect photos, videos, sounds, text, signatures, and generate an instant inspection and sampling report that can be shared.

The app also has a back-end, a web platform that can also be used on a PC, for activity planning and historical activity consultation. This area, reserved for specific users, each with their own level of visibility, will be enriched in the future with all the diagnostic reports issued by the Sea Marconi laboratory and will become an access point to information on the health status of each customer’s machines.

Key Advantages

This system is the only one that meets the criteria of:

In 2002, we initiated science education and training events, responding to a growing global demand. This momentum has led us to establish Sea Marconi Campus, a new center of excellence dedicated to professional development in the management of transformer fleets and insulating fluids.

With 55 years of experience, Campus Sea Marconi collaborates with clients, drawing on technical expertise derived from our experts’ active participation in international industry standard groups (IEC, CIGRE, CENELEC, etc.). Sea Marconi offers comprehensive training, covering education for technicians in the field, addressing managerial issues, and providing theoretical sessions on regulatory developments in the sector.

The strength of Campus Sea Marconi lies in its ability to translate theoretical concepts into practical applications immediately. Our trainers, specialists in the field, deal daily with the very issues discussed in the classroom

All Sea Marconi courses begin with a basic skills test in order to “calibrate” the training to the level of the participants. Before the end of the course, however, the learning acquired is assessed in order to identify and clarify any issues that require further study.
Depending on the course, the training sessions may be held in one or more of the following environments:

• in the classroom, for purely theoretical content, with Power Point presentations
• remotely, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the new digital platforms
• in the laboratory, for training on analytical techniques for example
• in the field, for practical work on taking samples from transformers and learning oil decontamination techniques, for example

Campus Sea Marconi

via Ungheria 20, Collegno (Turin) – Italy

Courses can also be arranged on the client’s premises. Please contact us for more information

Ask for a quotation by clicking here. Please indicate the course of interest (by catalog or custom), the number of participants, the location of the course (at Sea Marconi in Collegno – Turin (Italy) or your headquarters), the duration. After your request you will be contacted by our customer service.

Budapest (Hungary), 26-27 November 2015. The record participation in the 10 technical committee IEC plenary meeting on insulating fluid is a very interesting sign of what’s going on in this field. For the first time, the number of delegates from the technical committees of the respective countries reached 50.

The plenary meeting reviewed the regulatory activity for insulating fluids as well as ongoing projects and those about to start.
Vander Tumiatti (Sea Marconi general partner) participated as Assistant secretary and offered a contribution on the various issues addressed, such as the theme of recycled oils or that of natural esters, currently lacking reference regulations.
Furthermore, the revision of SF6 regulations (which has a great environmental impact) was discussed, as well as new analysis methods of degradation markers of solid insulation materials such as methanol and ethanol and, in general, an attempt was made to solve some controversial points relating to regulation requests lacking enough consent to start dedicated activity (electrical properties such as dielectric strength, dielectric dissipation factor etc.).

Among the activities at the end of 2015, the training provided by Sea Marconi to a Philippine government delegation must surely be remembered. In particular, from 17 November to 20 November, 14 members of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), National Environment and Natural Resources Department, participated in an advanced training course on PCB problem management.
The training programme was divided in 4 days: the first was mostly theoretical and introduced the PCB theme (definitions, identification, inventory); the second day was both theoretical and practical and first analysed PCBs in the Sea Marconi official laboratory, and subsequently the decontamination / disposal technologies for PCB-contaminated fluids; the third day handled the international regulatory framework (IEC, CENELEC etc.); on the fourth day, there was a site visit to witness a Sea Marconi decontamination treatment.
Sea Marconi employed 6 trainers on this occasion and each of them was expert and skilled in his/her field. All trainers belonged to Sea Marconi staff, except one: we also availed ourselves of the expertise of Prof. Massimo Pompili from La Sapienza University of Rome, who, thanks to his role as IEC TC 10 Secretary on insulating fluids, is among the most qualified international professionals in this field.
In recent years, contacts with the Philippines have increased: local authorities invited us in Manila and Davao in April 2011 to present Sea Marconi’s solutions to the PCB problem and then, in November 2012, a delegation from the Philippines visited us for the accreditation and auditing of Sea Marconi’s “PCBs Free Program” solution.

After about a year since the last trip to Russia, on last 11 November 2015, Vander (Sea Marconi general partner) and Cristina Tumiatti (marketing and sales director) returned to Moscow to offer solutions to the PCB problem in Russia.
This time, the invitation came from EDF Fenice-Russia, the organiser of an event dedicated to sustainable business; as part of this working day, Sea Marconi was asked to introduce the PCB problem (definitions, risks, legal framework etc.) and propose an action plan for the management and treatment of PBC-contaminated electrical equipment and oils in Russia.

In addition to its undisputed international leadership on this issue, Sea Marconi was invited to Russia thanks to the strong collaboration that has brought our company to support the EDF-Fenice Group, both in France and in Italy, for several years and still today. In particular, Sea Marconi is in charge of the analysis and diagnosis of strategic transformers in the nuclear,thermoelectric and hydroelectric power plants for EDF France.
Technical-scientific information events such as the one held on 11 November in Moscow confirm Russia’s commitment (as a signatory to the Stockholm Convention) to undertaking the process of PCB decontamination, and the country’s largest companies affected by the problem are showing concrete signs of moving in this direction.