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Last January, in Korea, our partner Green Field inaugurated the centre for the decontamination and re-valorisation of transformers contaminated by PCBs. The event was attended by the delegate of important Clients, institutional authorities at central and local level, who personally viewed the progress of the Country important “PCBs-free” project. AIn the centre is currently operational a stationary decontamination system developed by SeaRead more

Between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Sea Marconi supplies a decontamination mobile system to Terna Partecipacoes S.A.(Brazilian branch of the Italian power transmission company Terna) to deal with the corrosive sulfur problem. In following chronologically the situation, on 3rd November 2009 Terna Partecipacoes S.A. closet the sale of its 66% to Cemig (Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais), oneRead more

In the issue of the ERDF publication “PCB Actu” dated 7th February, the “Distribution “ division of the French energy colossus, reviews the situation of the decontamination program from PCBs of its electrical transformers. We point out that this activity is performed by Sea Marconi with reference to a multi-year contract signed (and then renewed) with the French company in 2005. Thus,Read more

On 1st and 2nd December, in Mexico City, Vander Tumiatti participated to the workshop tilted “Taller Internacional de Sistemas de Gestion y de Tecnologias de Destuccion de Bifenilos Policlorados” (International Workshop on systems for the management and technologies for the elimination of PCBs). The Mexican Ministry of the Environment, within the UNPD 00059701 project, requested the participation by Sea Marconi in view of theRead more

The Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Best Available Techniques / Best Environmental Practices and Environmental Sound Management of POPs Wastes and PCBs for Asia”, has just taken place in Beijin from November 16 through 20. The title of the event says a lot about the topics of the workshop, but for the general public, it is appropriate to add some information, emphasising theRead more

Between the 19th and the 21st October 2009 in Arabia Saudita has been held the GCC POWER 09, the fifth CIGRE International Conference and the fourteenth exhibition for electrical equipments. Vander Tumiatti presented a speech with the following title: “Integrated Methods for the Determinations of Corrosivity, Aging, Fingerprinting as well as the Diagnosis, Decontamination, Depolarization and Detoxification of Mineral Insulating Oils & Transformers“. Inside theRead more

The My Transfo do Brasil 2009, held in Rio de Janeiro on 22nd, 23rd and 24th September, repeated and exceeded the success of past editions. My Transfo, developed in 2002 by Sea Marconi and proposed since 2007 in Brazil with the factual collaboration by Terna Participações, confirmed itself being the main conference on the management of fleets of transformers with insulating liquidsRead more

On 11th December 2008. an important meeting was held in Seoul during which Sea Marconi confirmed its international leadership in providing solutions for the PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) problem in insulating oils. The participants included several representatives of public authorities and other delegates of entities involved in the management of the environment, specifically the problem of PCBs in electrical equipment with insulating fluids, in the RepublicRead more

“A strong shock crumbles the walls and the ceiling of the machine room. It is caused by an explosion, similar to a bomb. A transformer in oil of the second turbine/alternator group explodes for causes yet to be determined, just while the maintenance engineers are working. The water penetrated violently: in the jargon it is the lethal “hydraulic shock”. TheRead more

The satisfactory conclusion of the training of the Korean engineers, the timly delivery terms and the performance of the plant during the final tests, emphasize, once more, Sea Marconi’s leadership on the topic of decontamination of PCBs on a worldwide scale. But we make a step backward. The interest shown by the Korean company GreenField Ltd at the end of 2008, tookRead more