The Drapò project ended with excellent results. The project aimed at studying systems and components for energy and energy efficiency recovery in motor vehicles, or more simply put, at studying materials to be used in cars in the near future.
The project, coordinated by the Fiat Research Centre, was funded by the 2007/2013 RDEF REGIONAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME “Regional Competitiveness and Employment” and was attended by more than 40 partners among private companies, research centres and Universities in Piedmont.
Returning to the results of the project, Sea Marconi is very proud of this experience: during the final event, held at the Fiat Research Centre on 26 October 2015, we showed the system thanks to which, for the first time, it was possible to make high added value carbon nano-tubular structures from specific waste carbon matrixes such as used tires for example.
The “Carbon Nanotubes” manufactured by Sea Marconi are the result of about 36 months of research and development during which we have used extraordinary skills, peculiar in that they are interdisciplinary, a feature without which such a result would never have been reached.

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The latest number of the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (vol. 19 No. 5 October 2012), the prestigious IEEE publication, published the study by Sea Marconi in collaboration with the University of Missouri Rolla.Our work clarifies and makes the point about methods of quantification of sulfur compounds in used and unused oils. The title of our article is “IEC 62697-2012: State of the art methods for quantification of DBDS and other corrosive sulfur compounds in unused and used insulating liquids” and other corrosive sulfur compounds in unused and used insulating liquids” di Tumiatti, V. Roggero, C. ; Tumiatti, M. ; Di Carlo, S. ; Maina, R. per la Sea Marconi e Kapila, S. dell’università del Missouri, Rolla.

Studies of Sea Marconi appear once again pioneering regarding the assessment and determination of corrosive contaminants in insulating oils. In particular, the article describes the State of the art concerning the methods developed by the IEC TC10 WG37 for quantitative determination of highly corrosive sulfur compounds such as the DBDS and other sulfur compounds in used and unused insulating liquids. The methods described allow an objective approach to corrosiveness assessment of insulating liquids rather than subjective assessment based on the color evaluation of color of the current test methods standardized for sulphur potentially corrosive in insulating liquids. In addition, quantification of total corrosive sulfur (TCS) in insulating liquids permits an objective ranking of sulfur compounds according to their corrosivity towards copper.

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) recently awarded to Mr Vander Tumiatti the “1906 Award”, a greatly valued price underlining once more the dedication and the results obtained in the domain of corrosive sulfur.

Vander Tumiatti has be chosen for “the precious contribution to the understanding of the potentially corrosive behaviour of mineral insulating oil used in power transformers and for his discoveries, recognised worldwide, in the development of diagnostic chemical analyses”.

The 1906 award is the homage created to celebrate the foundation of IEC and to bestow the right recognition to who provided an exceptional technical contribution in the development of a particular project within IEC.
Please find herewith the communication received from A. Arnit, President and General secretary of IEC
2009-06-25

Subject: 1906 Award

Dear Sir,

As you may be aware, the Officers of the International Electrotechnical Commission (lEC) created the 1906 Award to commemorate the founding of the Commission and to honour those who have made an exceptional recent technical contribution to the development of a specific lEC work project. This is now the fifth occasion on which the annual awards have been made.

I should like to congratulate you on being among the experts involved in the lEC’s technical work who are being presented this year with the 1906 Award, following nomination by the officers of your technical committee/subcommittee. The Award recognizes the major input you have made to furthering standardization and related activities in the field of electrotechnology. On behalf of the lEC President and all the other lEC Officers, I express our sincerest appreciation of your past and future contributions to our technical work.

Please feel at liberty to advise your management, or any other appropriate persons, that the lEC is presenting you with this Award – indeed we would encourage you to do so.
Yours sincerely,

A. Amit

IEC General Secretary & CEO

With reference to the prestigious invitation received by Vander Tumiatti (please read our news here below) on behalf of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), we are proud to add that, thanks to his intervention in Kenya Mr Tumiatti is part of the founding members of PEN (PCBs Elimination Network). This is the result of a voluntary initiative born last May at the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of Parts of the Stockholm Convention.

PEN as objective the Exchange of information to support the divulging of the obligations deriving from the Stockholm Convention on the management of PCBs in an environmentally friendly manner.

Consequently, the presence of Sea Marconi in this network is an additional confirmation of the involvement of the company and Vander Tumiatti himself, against PCBs and POPs.

We remind that the workshop held in Kenya from 15 through 19 June 2009, had as objective the dissemination among the Anglophone Countries of Africa of the Guidelines for the Best available techniques (BAT) and the Best Environmental Techniques (BAP) relative to the inventory, management, decontamination and/or disposal of Permanent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and PCBs.

The event provided very interesting perspectives for a “GreenPro – PCBs free Program”; Sea Marconi has all the distinctive features to be a protagonist in the struggle against PCBs and POPs in the entire African Continent. We are not adding further information at present, but we invite you to visit periodically our site to discover, in real time, the developments on this matter..

The competence by Sea Marconi on the topic of PCBs at international level received a prestigious confirmation: a few days ago, Vander Tumiatti received an invitation by Donald Cooper, Executive Secretary of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

In particular, the communication invites Tumiatti as international expert on the matter, to give a dissertation at the Workshop organised by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention in cooperation with the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Regional Office for Africa to be held in Nairobi (Kenya) from 15th through 19th June.

The event has the scope to divulge among the Anglophone Countries of Africa the Guidelines for the Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BAP) relative to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and PCBs.

We remind that:

• The Stockholm Convention (signed in 2001, in effect since 2004 with 150 participating Countries) has the objective to eliminate and reduce the use of some noxious substances for human health and for the environment, designated as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). POPs are chemical compounds with toxic properties that can be propagated in the air, water and ground that, due to their scarce degradability, reside in the environment for a long time. The Agreement indicates 12 main pollutants and three entire classes of compounds: polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins (PCDDs or more commonly called dioxins) and polychlorinated dibenzo furans (PCDFs).
• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was implemented in 1972 as an institutional organism to which the general scope of protecting the environment and the sustainable use of natural resources has been assigned, within the frame of the complex organisation system of the United Nations (Wikipedia).

For more info

• • Link to web site of Stockholm Convention
  • Link to news with details of the Workshop
  • Link to official site of UNEP

The My Transfo 2008 provided also the opportunity to remember the absence of Viktor Sokolov, unanimously recognised as one of the major experts in the sector. In his memory, a special scientific committee composed of prof. Bartnikas (chairman of IEC TC10), prof. Pompili (Secretary of IEC TC10) and prof. Kapila of University of Rolla Missouri, established the “Viktor Sokolov Memorial Lecture – IEEE PERMANENT AWARD”. For this first edition.

The Committee assigned the award to Vander Tumiatti who presented a lecture titled:

1968 – 2008: Witnessing 40 years of innovation: from oil analysis through “Integrated methods for the determination of corrosivity, ageing, fingerprinting as well as the diagnosis, decontamination, depolarisation and detoxification of oils (Acronym: OIL Vial Test-CAF & D5 – Patent applied for)”