COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.

Water is one of the most essential and abundant resources in nature. Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered with water. Pure water is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Pure water is actually a rarity in nature. Oceans, rivers, lakes and underground water contain varying amounts of impurities picked up from the earth as well as dissolved gases picked up from the atmosphere. The impurities present in a water supply can cause many problems when that water is used in industrial or commercial heating and cooling systems.

Plant utilities or offsites are a vital service to the operation of most major industrial plants. Unfortunately, they are all too often ignored until they cause problems. It's too late to start thinking about them when the plant gets hit with a major derating or outage that could have been avoided. This course is a must for the key personnel in any industry that requires reliable sources of water and control of its usage for process applications, cooling water and steam production.

This course is designed to provide the background knowledge needed to design, operate and maintain the water treatment processes used for heating, cooling and process applications at peak efficiency with minimal deratings or outages.

The course will concentrate on Reverse Osmosis (RO) water treatment system. However, other water treatment systems will be discussed.