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On 10th June 2010, in Vienna at the premises of Wien Energie Wienstrom a Viennese multi-utility serving 2 million people the meeting of IEC TC 10 MT 22 was held. The objective of the working group, coordinated by doct. Bruce Pahlavanpuor, is revising the important technical standard 60422 (Mineral insulating oils in electrical equipment – Supervision and maintenance guidance). In particular, the various editorial andRead more

Friday June 4 2010 at 22.30 local time Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, was the scene of a devastating fire killing 117 to 150 people and at least the same amount of people injured. All the sources are in agreement to indicate the cause of the fire as the result of the explosion of an electric transformer. Subsequently, the fire spreadRead more

The collaboration among Sea Marconi, University of Turin (Dept. of Analytical Chemistry), University of Rolla Missouri USA and the Serbian research institute “NIKOLA TESLA” continues. The work is the outcome of the brilliant result achieved, ninth over one hundred and fifty, following the participation to a tender promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development favoring the integration among Universities andRead more

On 19th May, at the Sea Marconi HQ, the first international meeting of IEC TC10 MT27 took place finalised toward the revision of the norms on PCBs – Askarel: IEC 60588-1, First edition 1977-01, Askarels for transformers and capacitors, Part 1: General IEC 60588-2, First edition 1978-01, Askarels for transformers and capacitors, Part 2: Test methods IEC 60588-3, First edition 1977-01, AskarelsRead more

The headquarters of Sea Marconi in Collegno (Turin) has just hosted (on 18th May) the 6th international meeting of IEC TC 10 PT 5 (International Electrotechnical Commission) on the topic: “Specific Standard for Unused Natural Esters liquids for transformers and similar Electrical equipment”.. The meeting had the objective of formalising a pioneering technical norm for the use of biogenic based insulating liquids, i.e. derived fromRead more

The new European technical norm CENELEC CLC/TR 50503, titled: Guidelines for the inventory control, management, decontamination and/or disposal of electrical equipment and insulating liquids containing PCBs has finally been issued. This norm represents the best response for the activities for the management of the life cycle of fleets of electrical equipment with insulating fluids in operation finalised toward preventing or mitigating theRead more

Within the theme call ”Ambient” is currently being evaluated a very promising European project (7th Frame work program (FP7)) using Sea Marconi’s experience in intermediate pyrolysis to improve the performance of agricultural soils. The project, designated as C-Lock, is the work of a consortium of enterprises and research institute of primary importance at European level. The objective is to find theRead more

The agreement between Sea Marconi and EDF continues, since, thanks to the brilliant results obtained by our technology CDP Process) for the dehalogenation of transformers with PCBs, the current exclusive agreement already in effect for over three years has been renewed. CDP Process by Sea Marconi, is the only technology operating in continuous, closed-loop mode, without draining even partially the transformer that, besides decontaminatingRead more

Within the 7th Framework Program (FP7) a European project having Sea Marconi as a protagonist with other 12 enterprises and research organisms at Italian and European level has been approved. The designation of the project is BioAlgaeSorb (Enabling European SMEs to remediate wastes, reduce GHG emissions and produce biofuels via microalgae cultivation); its objectives are to integrate different technologies forRead more

Sea Marconi was recently (16 Feb. 2010) classified in second place among the participants to a tender promoted by the Ministry for Economic Development within the research and development projects for renewable energies. The project is designated as “Use of pulsating crown and microwaves to improve the conversion ratio into electric power from the pyro-gasification of biomasses – DEVELTAR”. TheRead more