Tag: PCB free

Fifty years ago, on 10 July 1976, the explosion of reactor A101 at the ICMESA plant in Meda (Milan) released 2,3,7,8-TCDD, known as “Seveso dioxin”, into the environment. It was the world’s most severe case of contamination by this substance and marked a definitive turning point in the global perception of environmental risk, contributing to the first European Directives on

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SEA Marconi has just completed a dehalogenation treatment (performed on-load, with the transformer energised and under load) at a hydroelectric power plant in Romania. These activities are routine for SEA Marconi, which performs 20 to 25 transformer treatments simultaneously every day in different areas of the world. In this specific case, however, the intervention was successfully carried out despite particularly

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The Italian Ministry of the Environment has removed all doubt: by December 31, 2025, all equipment containing PCBs in concentrations greater than 0.005% (50 mg/kg) and with a volume > 0.05 dm³ must be taken out of service, decontaminated, or disposed of. This clarification came in response to an official inquiry from Confindustria, Italy’s main industry association. It confirms an

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The first "episode" of this important milestone dates back to May 2020 with the publication of the call for tenders by The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) through the agency for the sustainable management of persistent organic contaminants (POPs) in response to the obligations of the Stockholm Convention. www.popsegypt.com The tender, financed by the World Bank / GEF, was entitled: DecontaminationRead more

The first relations between Sea Marconi and Vietnam date back to 2003, when a technological cooperation agreement was signed on “Clean Technologies” between the European Commission and Asian area. Twelve years later, last 11th and 12th May 2015, we were pleased to host a delegation of the Vietnamese national electricity company, EVN*. Their objective was to select the best technologyRead more

We are particularly proud to be able to recount another positive update in the “PCBs free Program for Japan” project: the arrival of the first order for the development of a system (DMU) for the dehalogenation of oils and transformers contaminated by PCBs. To completely understand the extraordinary nature of this news, we need to take a look at theRead more

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 NationsRead more

Scenario Nameplate data of transformer: Trasformatore: grid transformer Manufact: xxx Year: 1970 Power [MVA]: 70 Voltage [KV]: 225 Oil mass [Kg]: 38.000 Solution Sea Marconi Dealogenazione (CDP Process®) treatment in order to remove the PCBs, performed on-load (this means that the transformer is in service and under load during the treatment) Trend of PCBs and chlorine content during the dehalogenation treatment (CDP Process)Read more

Scenario Nameplate data of transformer: Transformer: GSU transformer Manufact: xxx Year: 1974 Power [MVA]: 760 Voltage [KV]: 400 Oil mass [Kg]: 55.000 Problem See analytical results of the oil before treatment (table below) Soluzione Sea Marconi Solution: Dehalogenation treatment (CDP Process®) in order to remove the PCBs from the oil and transformer. Before treatment After treatment TAN [mg KOH/g] 0,029 < 0,010 BreakdownRead more

Scenario Utility – Power transformer of generation (nuclear, thermal, hydro), transmission and distribution with a total of 1.093 transformers. Namepale data of transformers: Power max [MVA]: 760 Voltage max [KV]: 400 Oil mass [Kg]: 75.000 each PCB max [mg/Kg]: 5.000 PCB target [mg/Kg]: < 20 (after 90 days) Solution Sea Marconi Solution: Dehalogenation treatment (CDP Process®) in order to remove the PCBs from oils and transformers. The treatmentsRead more