STUDY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND WASTE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WITH PCB CONTENT IN MARAMUREȘ COUNTY, ROMANIA

Abstract

This study highlights the management of electrical equipment and waste electrical equipment with PCB content inventoried in Romania. Because it is mandatory to phase out such equipment with concentrations of at least 50 ppm at a volume of more than 5 dm3 an assessment of the compliance with the requirements imposed by the specific legislation has been made. The results obtained from the statistical processing and interpretation of the data from the national inventory reveal that in Romania, the elimination process is slow and that are still important stocks of equipment with PCB content that must be eliminated. By the end of 2018, the rate of decontamination and disposal of this equipment and the quantities of oils with PCB content was below 25%. Currently, there is no national or county inventory of fluid-containing equipment with 0.005% to 0.05% PCB relative to fluid weight. In Maramureș County, there is no waste electrical equipment in the inventory with PCB content, but only capacitors in use. By the end of 2019, the rate of decontamination and disposal of these equipments at county level was below 15%.

Keywords

• equipment and waste electrical equipment
• transformer
• capacitor
• pcb
• contamination