PCBs Inventory Guidance

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1 PEN Advisory Committee Third Meeting, November 23-25, 2011 PCBs Inventory Guidance Jinhui Li Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Asia and the Pacific Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity-building and the Transfer of Technology in Asia and the Pacific 22 November 2011

2 Major Contents Objective & Progress Current Situation and Needs for a Proper Inventory Organizing and Conducting a PCBs Inventory PCB sampling, analysis and labeling Information Management 2

3 1.Backgroud & Objectives Objectives: To provide technical support for the Environment Sound Management of PCBs under the requirements of the Stockholm Convention. Progress: Information Collection, March 2011 Draft outline of the guidance, April 30, 2011 Comments on the outlines, till June 30, 2011 Draft of the PCBs inventory guidance, July 10, 2011 Expert seminar on the draft of PCBs Inventory Guidance, July 12, 2011 Teleconference on the outline and content of the Guidance, July 14 and 21, nd version of draft PCBs inventory guidance, Oct, 2011 Comments on the 2nd version guidance, till Nov.4, rd version of the draft PCBs inventory guidance, Nov.21,

4 2.1 History of PCBs production Producer Country Start Stop Amount Monsanto USA ,246 Geneva Ind. USA Kanegafuchi Japan ,326 Mitsubishi Japan ,461 Bayer AG West Germany ,062 Prodelec France ,654 S.A. Cros Spain ,012 Monsanto U.K ,542 Caffaro Italy ,092 Chemko Czechoslovakia ,482 Orgsteklo USSR (Russia) ,800 Orgsintez USSR (Russia) ,000 Xi an China ,000 Total ,324,131 4

5 2.2 Existing PCB inventories PCB Oil (t) PCB Equipments (Pieces) APEC 5,355, ,571 Africa 1,890,370 55,646 West Asia LAC 3,218 8,425 Europe 6,086,957 1,176,499 Total 13,336,827 2,045,272 PCB oil PCB Equipments Europe 45.64% APEC 40.16% APEC 39.34% Europe 57.52% West Asia 0.00% LAC 0.02% Africa 14.17% LAC 0.41% West Asia 0.01% 23 5 Africa 2.72%

6 2.3-Needs for developing & updating a proper PCB inventory-1 Incomplete and unreliable PCBs Inventory Only estimated information based on the application of the basic assumptions without enough testing work The cross-contamination between electric equipment during their maintenance was ignored or over estimated Each country differs in its methodological approach for the completion of its inventory Limited Scope of PCB Inventory focus only on the electric equipments, especially the big transformers, because of the limitation of time and resources. sensitive locations including non-industrial populated premises, such as hospital & school small distribution units had been ignored in most of the countries 6

7 2.4-Needs for developing & updating a proper PCB inventory-2 Weak awareness of PCB the management of PCBs containing oil and equipment in most of the developing countries is poor and there is little awareness on the dangers posed by PCBs, poor management and personnel protection the capacity of electric companies and local authorities need to be enhanced for routine monitoring of PCB levels in transformer oil, soils, water and human blood Continuing information usage on the PCBs shall also be one of the priorities of NIP in relation to PCBs Lack of stakeholder participation stakeholders and especially industry show little or no interest to participate in the identification process the responsibility on PCB equipment management and high cost of PCB disposal without any assistance from the authorities makes the owners of PCB unhappy for the inventory work stakeholder do not understand their role in the inventory process or the person contacted is a low-level officer. Government ministries in developing countries often have only few multidisciplinary staff and it is difficult to have a person solely dedicated to such an inventory project. 7

8 3. Organizing and Conducting a PCBs Inventory Organizational Set up of PCBs Inventory Awareness Raising and Training Regulatory prerequisites for proper inventory Conducting a PCBs inventory 8

9 3.1 Organizational Set up of PCBs Inventory National Committee of SC Department of Environ. Prot. Department of Industry Convention Focal Point PCBs monitoring unit National PCBs Inventory Team Consultant unit Holders of PCBs equipments PCBs waste treatment unit 9

10 3.2 Awareness Raising and Training What are PCBs? Where are they found? How do they affect humans and the environment? What are the state s obligations under the Stockholm Convention with respect to POPs, labeling, appropriate personal protective equipment and disposal? Awareness raising could be used to engage the stakeholder organizations and the general public in the form of a public information campaign focusing on the basic PCBs knowledge. 10

11 3.3 Regulatory prerequisites management of district storage facilities for obsolete PCBs equipment and hazardous wastes; management of abandoned storehouses and contaminated sites; import/export and transboundary transportation of obsolete pesticides and PCBs; procedures for assessment of new pesticides and pesticides currently in use against POPs criteria; regulation on statistical reporting on POPs pesticides and PCBs wastes, products, installations and PCBs-contaminated sites; instruction for management of PCBs-contaminated power equipment; instruction on storage and management of PCBs wastes; recommendations for safe usage of PCBs materials; instruction on field and laboratory identification of PCBs content in dielectric oils and other materials; instruction on performing PCBs inventories and identification of contaminated sites; instruction on transportation of oils, equipment and other PCBs-contaminated materials; instruction on disposal of PCBs-contaminated oils and PCBs-contaminated power equipment; instruction on refilling the power equipment; instruction for labeling of PCBs-containing equipment; and regulation on POPs management control. 11

12 3.4 Conducting a PCBs inventory National PCB Inventory Team PCB inventory guideline, form & identification method preparation PCB database frame establishment PCB holder identification and training Sending & collecting the PCB forms PCB equipment labeling Result verification by physical inspection Good quality? N PCB database updating and reporting 12 Y

13 4.1 PCB sampling Transformer oil sampling Syringe Sampling Metal Cylinder Sampling Capacitor oil sampling Sampling at PCBs storage site PCBs materials stored in drums PCBs materials stored in piles Personal Protective Equipment 13

14 4.2 PCB screening and analysis Sampling Quick testing Documentation Result Negative PCB free Positive Equipment analysis Documentation Result <50 ppm PCB free >50 ppm Documentation PCB Equipment 14

15 4.3 PCBs labeling Labeling Equipment and Containers Labels for Cables and Pipelines in Us Labels for Dismantled Cables and Pipelines Storage Labeling Requirements Transfer Site and Destruction Site Labeling Requirements ATTENTION ATTENTION Contains 50 mg/kg or more of PCBs Contains 50 mg/kg or more of PCBs Address and telephone of the local EPB Address and telephone of the equipment owner Date of Commencement of Storage: Address and telephone of the local EPB Address and telephone of the equipment owner Date of Commencement of Storage: 15

16 5. Information Management Elements of a database of PCBs holders Location of PCBs Classes and type of PCBs(equipment/waste/contaminated site) Weight and volumes Owner information Use/Storage situation Leakage and contamination information Product age and condition Pictures of the PCBs equipment Maintenance of a database Procedures for tracking sampled equipment 16

17 Thanks for your attention! Contact TEL: Add: Environmental School, Tsinghua Univ, Beijing, China