Fabric Filter Baghouse Design, Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Fabric Filter Baghouse Design, Maintenance & Troubleshooting is one of ten short courses that the American Filtration and Separation Society (AFS) will be offering during its 20th Annual Conference being held March 26-30, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

Fabric Filter Baghouse Design, Maintenance & Troubleshooting is an eight hour course that is being held 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on March 27th. Attendees are awarded a certificate with .8 CEUs.

With this course you will know the state of the art in Baghouse design, operation and critical operating parameters. Learn cost control and optimization.

For registration and more information go to:
http://www.afssociety.org/shortcourse/

John McKenna is the instructor for the course.

John McKenna is the CEO of ETS Inc. He is the author of numerous articles & a number of texts including the air pollution control section of Perry's Chem E. Handbook.  John is a chemical engineer (Manhattan College) with the entire career (40 plus years) spent in the field of pollution control with a special emphasis on baghouse technology. Designed, installed & operated the first baghouse on an industrial coal fired boiler.

Dr. McKenna authored the baghouse text along with Jim Turner and currently writing one on fine particle measurement & control. He is a founder (1973) and principal of ETS Inc. ETS does testing (bags), trouble shooting (baghouses), training (online and in-person baghouse training) & testimony (baghouse expert witness).

The training course will cover:

Fabric and Filter Systems
Design Features of Fabric Filter Systems
Applications
Cost Considerations
Specifications & Fabric Testing
Installation and Start-up
Testing and Balancing
Warrantees and Performance Guarantees
Inspection and Maintenance Procedures for Achieving Smooth Operations
Troubleshooting – Symptoms, Causes, and Remedies
 
Following the AFS short courses is the AFS 20th Annual Conference that consists of dozens of technical presentations on filtration and separation. The conference runs March 27-29. The event is co-located with the WQA Aquatech 2007 exhibit that runs March 28-30.

For registration and more information go to:
http://www.afssociety.org/shortcourse/