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Safety Standards Seminar for Industrial Furnaces & Ovens
October 18 - 19, 2010 Hilton Garden Inn O'Hare Chicago, IL
Introduction Explosions and fires in industrial heating systems can result in injury or loss of life, and loss of property and production. Understanding the proper use of National Standards governing the compliant design and operation of Ovens and Furnaces is essential for everyone involved with this type of equipment. What Will Be Presented
Who Should Attend Who You Will Meet The fee includes: tuition; seminar materials and bound handouts; one printed copy of theNFPA 86 Standard; Reception on Monday; and luncheon & refreshment breaks on Monday and Tuesday. Upon completion of the course seminar attendees are awarded a certificate.
Course Outline Monday Session 1 - Introduction to NFPA 86 Standards for Furnaces and Ovens Insights into the evolution of standards applicable to industrial oven and furnaces. Session 2 - Location, Construction and Ventilation Compliant location and construction requirements for ovens and furnaces and related equipment to protect personnel from fire and explosion hazards along with design requirements for heating system standards. Session 3 - Furnace Heating Systems Including Class B Furnace Considerations Compliant applications for fuel fired combustion system as applied to ovens and furnaces will be covered. Session 4 - Commissioning, Operations, Maintenance, Inspection & TestingCompliance requirements also extend to equipment use and its maintenance. Session 5 - Introduction to Safety Equipment & Application including Programmable Logic Controller Systems PLC requirements for Burner Management Systems. Session 6 - Safety Equipment & Application Including Safety Controls & Devices Safety devices for furnace heating and ventilation systems covering valves, flame safeguard controls and other required equipment. Session 7 - Safety Equipment & Application Including Safety Shutoff Valves Requirements for utilizing safety shutoff valves as a key safety element to protect against explosions and fires. Tuesday Session 8 - Thermal Oxidizer & Class A Furnaces Compliance requirements for Thermal Oxidizers, Class A Furnaces and related equipment to protect personnel from fire and explosion hazards, wiwth a focus on coordinating compliance requirements with process equipment functionality during startup, operation and shutdown. Session 9 - Class C Furnace: Special Atmospheres Safety controls and procedures relating to the introduction and removal of flammable special atmospheres in furnaces. Session 10 - Class C Furnace: Quench & Molten Salt Bath Requirements for furnaces using either an internal or external quench or molten salt bath. Session 11 - Class D Furnace: Vacuum Atmosphere Review of heating systems, ventilation and safety equipment for vacuum furnaces, including furnaces with integral liquid quench or special atmospheres. Session 12 - Loss Prevention: An Insurer’s Perspective Special session on loss prevention and insurer’s role involving the application and enforcement of standards, including drawing approvals and product listings. Session 13 - Product Liability Highlights of the use of NFPA standards as they pertain to product liability litigation and OSHA citations. Course Hours MONDAY
Seminar Faculty Raymond Ostrowski, (Seminar Chairman) Consultant; Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee; Chairman of the NFPA 86 Task Group on Class C - Industrial Furnaces Using a Special Processing Atmosphere. John Barron, Solar Atmospheres Manufacturing, Inc.; Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee. Chairman of the NFPA 86 Tasl Group on Class D - Vacuum Furnaces. Rich Gallagher, Zurich Services Corporation; Chair of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee and Member of NFPA 85 Technical Committee on Fundamentals of Combustion System Hazards. Tom George, CFPS CFSE, Senior Consultant with Marsh USA. Member of NFPA 86 Technical Committee; Chair of NFPA 86 Task Group on Class A Furnaces; Member of NFPA 85 Committee for Boiler and Combustion Systems Hazards Code. Ted Jablkowski, North American Manufacturing Company; Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee; Chair of NFPA 86 Task Group on Introductory Chapters; Member of the NFPA 85 Fundamentals of Combustion System Hazards and NFPA 85 Single Burner Boiler Technical Committee; Chair of IHEA’s Safety Standards & Codes Committee Glen R. Mortensen, Zurich Services Corporation; Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee and Secretary of the NFPA 86 Task Group on Class C Furnaces.
Mark Stender, Surface Combustion, Inc.; Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee. Franklin Switzer, S-AFE, Inc., Industrial Combustion Safety Consultant; Member, NFPA 86 Technical Committee; Member of the NFPA 85 Technical Committee for Fundamentals of Combustion Systems Hazards, Single Burner Boilers, and Multiple Burner Boilers; Member of the ASME CSDAFB Controls and Safety Devices for Automatically Fired Boilers Standards Committee; and Member of the ANSI/CSA Joint TAG on Automatic Gas Controls. Algirdas Underys, A. Finkl & Son, Inc.; Chairman of the NFPA 86 Task Group on Process Heaters. Member of the NFPA 86 Technical Committee; Past Chairman of the Main NFPA 86 Technical Committee.
Registration and Hotel Reservation Information Registration Fees: IHEA Member - $700 Non-Member - $750 Group Discount - If you register multiple people from the same company, at the same time a discount will apply. The first registrant will pay the full amount; each additional registrant will receive a $150 discount of the registration price. Hilton Garden Inn O'Hare Airport 2930 South River Road Des Plaines, IL 60018 Room rate is $119 and the hotel provides complimentary airport shuttle transportation to/from O'Hare. To receive the discounted room rate reservations must be made throught IHEA. The hotel will not accept reservations directly. You will be able to make room reservations at the time you register for the seminar. Reservations must be made by September 24th to receive the group rate. Call 859-356-1575 with any questions.
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