On 23rd March 2011, at its headquarters in Collegno (Turin), Sea Marconi welcomed a delegation coming from the Republic of Azerbaijan. The working group came to Italy with the objective of deepening the solutions provided by Sea Marconi for the management of the PCBs problem in their Country.
Under an economic point of view, Azerbaijan can count on flourishing agriculture and grazing, but, most of all, the extraction of crude oil, refining and related products (activities representing 70% of the total of this sector in the ex USSR). From the large refineries in Baku, start pipelines reaching Tbilisi in Georgia and then Matumi on the Black Sea. Also important are natural gas reserves. Moreover, iron, lead, zinc, alunite, copper and pyrite are extracted. Among transforming industries, chemical, metallurgical, mechanical and food processing activities are signalled.
Coming back to the event, the delegation from Azerbaijan was composed by representatives from the Ministry and Utilities involved with the generation, transportation, distribution and use of electric power. At the meeting participated the experts from Sea Marconi and our partner for the Balkans and Caucasus Polyeco.
The topics discussed generated together with the keen interest shown by our guests, who examined in details the technological solutions offered by Sea Marconi, certainly were positive elements providing the base for a future solid collaboration.
Sea Marconi, thanks to the leadership acquired in the international field is configured as an ideal technological partner by offering BAT-BEP (Best Environmental Technique – Best Environmental Practice) solutions, thanks to the “PCBs free” Program: BAT/BEP – Inventory, Control, Management, Decontamination of Electrical Transformer contaminated by PCBs complying with the Convention of Stockholm relative to POPs and the norm CENELEC (CLC/TR 50503).
Sea Marconi aims at the conservation of resources through the complete decontamination of the oils contained by electrical equipment that can be kept in operation. This means to prevent the production of waste, disposal, incineration, and costs for the management of contaminated materials.
Sea Marconi provides the intervention with decontamination mobile units (DMUs) that dehalogenated and detoxify the PCBs present in the transformer and oil that recovers optimal dielectric properties in accordance with standard IEC 60422. IEC 60422.
The treatment against PCBs, CDP Process®, is done on-site (also with the transformer in operation) in continuous, closet-loop mode, without draining even partially the transformer.
