During the last week in November, Sea Marconi received a delegation coming from the Philippines.
The Sea Marconi’s experts have visited the Republic of the Philippines several times (we have already reported in April 2011 the official invitation to Vander Tumiatti as expert in the management and decontamination of electrical equipment with insulating fluids) and thanks to the competency provided, the project moved to a further step. Sea Marconi prepared for the Philippines a technical-scientific dossier that in the last two years has been subject to an accurate and severe analysis. The visit last November had the objective of accrediting the Sea Marconi technology, verifying and evaluating the company and its operational procedures. The delegation was composed by Reynaldo L. Esguerra (Supervising Science Research Specialist), Prima Joy F. Margarito (Science Research Specialist I) and Lorna M. Egay (Senior Science Research Specialist), belonging to the environment and bio-technology division of the “The Industrial Technology Development Institute” (ITDI), the national government agency for the validation and accrediting of methods and new technologies in the Republic of the Philippines.
The audit by the Filipino representatives continued in the days thereafter in France at an important 240 MVA tidal steam power plant, where the Filipino experts had the chance to see first handed how an integrated treatment for the dehalogenation, depolarisation and decontamination process with the ON-LOAD H24 method(transformer energised and under load) carried out on a power transformer GSU 80 MVA, 35,000 kg of oil and a 225 kV voltage.
Sea Marconi, thanks to the leadership developed at international level, is configuring as an ideal partner by offering BAT-BEP (Best Environmental Technique – Best Environmental Practice) solutions finalised toward a Smart LCM (Life Cycle Management). In this specific instance, “PCBs Free” Program responds to the decontamination requirements from PCBs, fully complying with the Convention of Stockholm relative to POPs and the norm CENELEC (CLC/TR 50503)..
Sea Marconi aims at conserving resources through the complete decontamination of the oils contained by electrical equipment that can, in this way, to be kept in operation. This means preventing the production of wastes, disposal, incineration, management costs for contaminated materials.Sea Marconi provides the interventions with Decontamination Mobile Units (DMUs) which dehalogenate and detoxify the PCBs present in the transformer and the oil that recovers the optimised dielectric properties, in compliance with norm IEC 60422. The CDP Process® against PCBs is carried out on-site (also with the transformer in operation), in continuous mode, closed-loop without even a partial draining of the transformer. With a population of about 97 mil. inhabitants, the Philippines is the twelfth most populated Country worldwide. The economy is supported mostly by livestock, fishing and tourism, but, considering its strategically favourable position, there are enormous economic potentials that could come from commerce. In fact, the Philippines are implementing a very attentive environmental policy. For this reason, the Sea Marconi’s technology is surely one of the best to be implemented.
