Main activities of CPC

• Training
• Awareness building
• In-plant assessment
• Advise on tactics
• Information dissemination
• Acquisition of new investments for CP and waste management technologies
• Demonstration Projects and technology transfer

Completed tasks before the organization of the Centre - Russian-Swedish project

• 1999: 2 expeditions to Big Tyters were organized
• 5 square km of forest was cleaned from metal military waste of German Wehrmacht
• Bay of the Island was detected on the depth of 5 meters
• Around 50 dangerous objects were lifted out of the water
• 2002: preparation to the next stage of work on cleaning of the island was started together with North-Western EMERCOM

CP-technology for Russian-Swedish project

Production for utilizing outdated conventional munitions right on sites where these munitions are stored

• Based on unique technology of extracting explosives using molten TNT
• Preliminary analysis of results, makes it possible to reassess existing approaches to the utilization of munitions with mixed stuffs
• Introduction and developing mobile production would allow effective, safe, profitable and ecologically clean utilization of munitions on its store sites
• Further processing of obtained mix stuffed explosives (trotyl-hexogen mixes) in accordance with a new technology gives access to industrial production of advanced materials of XXI century (ultra-dispersive diamonds, fulleren pipes, etc.)

Scheme of CP-technology

Schematic Arrangement of Outfit for extracting Explosive Materials from munitions and for reprocessing it into a granulated product

Demo-version of equipment

What has been done

• September 2000: joint seminar with UNIDO “Protection of North-Western Europe from POPs ”
• 2000: Parliamentary hearings “Protection of Marine eco-systems of Arctic Region from anthropogenic pollution” (National Activity Plan – Arctic of Russia)
• 2002: Parliamentary hearings (1) “Environmental Safety in RUSSIA”; (2) “Chemical weapons sunken in the Baltic Sea in 1947 - 1948”
• Starting July 2001: joint work with UNIDO on the project of “Removal of barriers to elimination of POPs in North-West Russia”
• Continuously: Russian-Swedish project on cleaning of Big Tyters
• Continuously: Creation of test-industrial equipment for ecologically clean utilisation of dangerous and toxic wastes in St.Petersburg area

CPC Demonstration Projects

• Modernization of the heat supply systems on the non-traditional energy efficiency technologies (water interior energy resource).
• Diminution of heavy metals pollution in Neva River by the means of deep disposal of galvanic waste on electro-techanical plant
• Introduction of resource saving technology on the plant producing high-voltage polymer insulators
• Disposal of municipal solid waste by superadiabatic gasification in the incinerator plant.

Example of collaboration

• Place: St.Petersbug, electro-techanical plant of Ministry of rail ways
• Specialization: Production of automatic systems and telemechanics for operation of railway traffic
• Employees: 900 (earlier 2,500 employees)
• Plant produces also goods for export - electro-mechanical relays
• Problems:
  • Badly cleaned galvanic waste
  • Continuously growing waste of thermo-active plastic

Collaboration mechanism

• Creation of a joint expert group
• Estimation of the situation on the plant
• Choice of optimal solution and stages for liquidation of major ecological problems
• Choice of СР technology for recycling of solid industrial waste and deep disposal of galvanic waste
• Training of employees to work according to new conditions
• Formation of business plan and the search for investment
• Introduction of CP technologies for disposal and recycling