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Last month, several American internet websites published the news of an explosion occurred last 7th November 2010 of a transformer at the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) nuclear power plant owned by Entergy Corporation. Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) is a nuclear power plant located in the Buchanan about 40 km from the city of New York on the bank of the HudsonRead more

On 29th November 2010, a cognitive meeting took place at the headquarters of Sea Marconi in Collegno (Turin- Italy) with doct. Nurlan Yeskendirov, project manager charged by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to evaluate the best solutions for the management of the PCBs problem in the generation, transportation and use of electric power in Kazakhstan. Talking of natural resources, Kazakhstan is probably the CountryRead more

At the eighth “Regional Conference for national committees of CIGRE in the Arab Countries” (www.gcc-cigre-power.com), in Doha (Qatar) from 18th through 20th October Sea Marconi provided really innovative solutions. The most important is surely the kit SM-TCS (Total Corrosive Sulfur), the unique really effective response for the total quantitative determination of corrosive compounds of sulfur. These compounds are indeed the main culpritsRead more

On 7th October 2010, the kick-off meeting of the European project “BioAlgaeSorb”, a 3-year research financed by the European Commission on the subject of micro-algae for energy and not related use, coordinated by the Norwegian Bioenergy Association, was held at the Sea Marconi’s headquarters. Twelve partners from 6 member States participate, including 3 associations of companies (Norwegian Bioenergy Association, European Biomass Association, BritishRead more

A three-day training session on the management of PCBs provided by Sea Marconi to a delegation coming from Mongolia, was concluded with a visit to a work site in Porto Venere. The contacts with Mongolia, matured within a project promoted by UNIDO, started about a year ago. Then in the subsequent months, the need by their side to start a training path finalised toward theRead more

Following an invitation by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), on 25th August Sea Marconi participated in New Delhi to a technical seminar on the “State of the art of alternative technologies for the management and disposal of PCBs. The event represented another step (after those already brilliantly achieved) by the UNIDO commissioners evaluating Sea Marconi as a possible supplier for a technological solution finalized toward the managementRead more

We just finished the preliminary agenda of My Transfo 2010. At its fifth edition, the My Transfo conference has established itself as the European point of reference in professional updating and scientific popularization about management of Electrical Transformer and insulating fluids. The 2010 edition will be held at Politecnico di Torino (event proponent) the 23rd and 24thNovember 2010. This year there are many novelties scheduled; we wantedRead more

The newspaper La Stampa of Turin reports on 17th October 2010 the news of a fire in a 130kV electric cabin in Ferriera di Buttigliera (Turin) occurred in the late evening of Saturday 16th October. According to the article of the Turin newspaper, the fire could have been triggered by a machinery of an external company dedicated to maintenance. TheRead more

Dopo After 40 years form the STOP to the production of PCBs in the USA and after about 30 years (1979) from the first official regulation on the PCBs problem, the EPA (also designated as USEPA – United States Environmental Protection Agency) is questioning the need for modifying or not current regulations. The document released by the EPA, dated 30th April 2010,Read more

The CIGRE (CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES GRANDS RÉSEAUX ÉLECTRIQUES), after about 6 years of work has published Technical Brochure no. 413 “Insulating oil Regeneration and Dehalogenation” (April 2010), which represents a synthesis of the methodologies and techniques for the treatment of mineral insulating oils for transformers. The doucument formalises also the procedures and requisites to evaluate and implement the Best Available Techniques (BAT)Read more