End of life management of medium voltage equipments

The degradation of some natural resources and the increasingly strict regulatory constraints have led a large number of manufacturers to modify their approach to production with the aim of minimizing the consumption of raw materials and optimizing the recovery of spent products. To date, the issue of recycling is addressed in two different ways: firstly, the integration of eco-design to reduce the consumption of materials at source and improve the recovery of the materials at end of life and secondly, the optimization of the end of life management processes in order to recover maximum material at least cost. Indeed, the recycled material regeneration is generally less polluting than virgin material production. In order to improve the environmental quality of its equipment items, AREVA T&D/DRC has chosen to work in parallel on eco- design and to develop an approach to the end of life management of medium-voltage equipment.