For Sea Marconi 2013 ended with very interesting outlooks; one of these involves the opportunity offered by Mexico, engaged in the project for the destruction of PCBs: Environmentally Sound Management and Destruction of PCBs in Mexico.
The project, started in 2009, involves the joint effort by the Ministry of Environment and natural resources (SEMARNAT), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNDP (United Nations Development Program) financed by GEF.
In order to review the situation on the progress of the project, on 26th and 27th November 2013 a technical seminar took place in Mexico City specifically targeted toward the following topics:
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Results of the project “Manejo y Destrucción Ambientalmente Adecuados de Bifenilos Policlorados en México” and social impact.
- Modifications to the official Mexican normative NOM-133-ECOL-2000, Protección Ambiental-Bifenilos Policlorados (BPCs)- Management specifications.
- Progress in the obligations with the Stockholm Convention relative to the destruction of PCBs and collaboration with UNDP.
Sea Marconi participated with an intervention titled “Gestión del ciclo de vida de aceites y transformadores contaminados por PCB (y DBDS): PCBs Free Program; DBDS & Corrosion Free Program” indeed during the timeframe dedicated to the solutions for the destruction of PCBs.
Sea Marconi is ready to operate in Mexico also thanks to the recent cooperation agreement with a prestigious local partner System of Energy sa. The dehalogenation of the oils of transformers with PCBs is going to be performed using the method CDP Process® by Sea Marconi, involving:
– the use of special patented reagents,
– internally developed treatment plants (DMU – Decontamination Mobile Unit),
– a safe and sustainable methodology providing the complete decontamination of the oil and the transformer (or other similar electrical equipment) filled with it.
