Sea Marconi Latinoamericana sa was born in 2004 to provide core business services to several customers on the Argentine market, among them some primary utilities and industrial groups, such as Esso, Siderca Tenaris Group, etc.Since its foundation the Latin American company Sea Marconi was engaged to stay permanently in that market with a system for the treatment of oils and transformers (DMU – Decontamination Mobile Unit).This technical solution is the Best Available Technique (BAT/BEP) for the decontamination of electrical equipment with oils contaminated by PCBs. In particular, already in 2004 the equipment on the high voltage lines of Transener and Transba took advantage of the “PCB Free Program” by Sea Marconi: the CDP Process® has been applied successfully on power transformers, on-site, with closed loop, under load, up to concentrations of PCB < 2 mg/Kg in the province of Buenos Aires and PCBs < 50 mg/kg in other provinces at federal level.
In view of the recent successes achieved in Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and Peru, Sea Marconi has modified in a positive manner the forecasts, thus the growth strategies on the Argentine and Latin American markets. Consequently, concrete actions at a company level have been implemented. On last 25th May, in fact, the Direction of Sea Marconi (Vander and Cristina Tumiatti) implemented a new management that shall strengthen the structure challenging the market in an innovative manner with a new portfolio of services. The integrated approach is based upon sustainable solutions for the management of the life cycle of electrical equipment with insulating fluids such as the “DBDS & Corrosion Free Program”, currently the only line of products, services and technologies against the corrosive sulfur problem.
On this topic, Sea Marconi is the highest expert worldwide. In 2005 it discovered as the first the cause of the corrosive sulfur phenomenon, as the first offered a really effective solution (Selective Depolarisation Chedcos) and it carries out a daily research and development activity to understand the corrosion mechanisms still obscure. Thanks to these studies, presented during the Pittcon Conference of Philadelphia (USA) Sea Marconi identified four typologies of corrosion (Tumiatti Square”):
- the one from DBDS (C1 – DBDS & Corrosive Sulfur);
- the one NOT from DBDS (C2 – NON DBDS & Corrosive Sulfur);
- the one linked to degradation by-products of sulfur (C3 – SDBP & Corrosive Sulfur):
- the corrosion NOT due to sulfur, but to dissolved metals (C4 – NON Sulfur Corrosion & Metal dissolution).
The final goal of the research id to tackle the typical criticalities of the life cycle of electrical equipment with insulating oil, improving the reliability of electric networks, by preventing failures and safeguarding the environment.
