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Wednesday, June 5 8:00 – 9:15 CO ‐ Safety and Tesng Technologies Erik Rasmussen, ESCO Pete Cullen, COO, Wohler USA Carbon Monoxide has been around for a long me. The characteriscs and effects have not changed, but recently it has received renewed coverage. This class will review carbon monoxide’s characteriscs and health effects. IF YOU ARE NOT TESTING‐YOU ARE GUESSING. The next part of this class covers proper care and maintenance of detecon equipment and sensor technologies. It then covers proper tesng techniques, acon levels, and health effects. CO detecon is vital. The instructor will review the latest updates with CO detector naonal standards (UL 2034) and a comparison to Canada’s CSA 6.19 standard. 9:15 – 9:30 Morning Break 9:30 – 10:45 High Efficiency Boilers Rick Johnson, Technical and Training Manager Weil McLain Today’s high efficiency boilers are exceeding 90% efficiency. Understanding the technology that allows this higher efficiency is a must, since these boilers do not operate like standard efficiency boilers. They ulize new controls that operate differently. The class will provide a presentaon of near boiler replacement piping, theory of operaon, operaon of components, and basic troubleshoong. Understanding of these concepts will help the ulity worker who is servicing equipment or responding to a low/ high bill issue. 11:00 – 12:30 Lunch with the Exhibitors in the “MAC” 12:45 – 1:45 Natural Fuel Gas Code James J. Mullowney, Manager‐Facilies Vermont Gas Systems, Inc. Changing technology and constant emphasis on safety requires thorough code knowledge for anyone servicing, installing or inspecng equipment. What should you do if you observe a code violaon? What happens if codes conflict? This course will review the 2012 Naonal Fuel Gas Code and will offer steps to take to protect your customers, your company and yourselves from potenally unsafe condions. Actual cases and incidents will be reviewed in an open discussion format. 2013 NGA Gas Operations School CUSTOMER SERVICE TRACK 18 2:00 – 3:15 Ultra High Efficiency Furnaces Phil Valpey, Technical Support S.G. Torrice Company The “ultra” high efficiency furnace is the latest evoluon for today’s equipment. Understanding how the furnace operates is a must for today’s technician. This course will explain the sequence of operaon and how the new control module allows the furnace to reach efficiencies up to 96%. How to troubleshoot these units completes the class. This class will focus on the modulang /two state gas furnace and ECM (electronically commutated motor.) 3:15 – 3:30 Aernoon Break 3:30 – 4:30 Revenue Protecon ‐ The of Service Pat Uhlman NSTAR Gas and Electric When a ulity person finds someone stealing gas, they invoke their The of Service program. However, is that all there is to a Revenue Protecon Program? Is your program proacve or reacve? What’s the difference? Are other causes of revenue loss given the same aenon as the of service? This course will give an overview of how to recognize and properly invesgate gas the as well as making sure that the Revenue Protecon/Revenue Assurance process idenfies, quanfies and recovers for other causes of revenue loss. Thursday, June 6 8:00 ‐ 9:00 General Assembly Lessons Learned from Super Storm Sandy presented by a panel of experts. 9:15 ‐ 10:30 High Efficiency Hydronic Heang John Murphy, Business Development Manager SRGI This session will cover the general laws of physics as it applies to condensing boilers and more specifically how it applies to high efficiency hydronic heang boilers. The impact of outdoor reset will be discussed to explain the benefit of condensing appliances in high temperature systems. Simple “pit‐falls” of outdoor reset will also be discussed. 10:30 ‐‐ 10:45 Morning Break
10:45 ‐‐ 12:00 Recognion and Assessment of Atmospheric Corrosion Donald A. Doubleday, Principal Corrosion Engineer Naonal Grid This session will focus on the recognion, assessment and migaon of atmospheric corrosion as typically found by field personnel. Learn how to evaluate, classify and remediate atmospheric corrosion on meter risers & sets, wall penetraons, inside piping, exposed piping at bridge crossings, regulator pits, LNG and propane facilies. 12:00 – 1:15 Lunch in Salmanson Dining Room 1:15 – 2:15 On Demand Water Heaters John Murphy Rinnai Come learn about hybrid on‐demand water heaters and the advantages of using them over tradional tanks. This class will review the technology and how it works; and discuss how to install and set up the systems. 2:30 – 3:45 Odor Invesgaon for First Responders (Double Session) Brian Hunt, Naonal Grid Jim Benne, Southern Conneccut Gas Co. This class will be a discussion on what it means to be a First Responder when dispatched to invesgate an odor call for a natural gas company. The instructors will share the different methods and dues of safely approaching various types of odor invesgaons such as natural gas, CO, propane, etc. You will learn the basic knowledge needed to understand natural gas in its various stages of combuson. Some of the most common areas to invesgate when responding to an odor will be discussed, with an opportunity for a Q&A with your peers and other professional First Responders. The session will conclude with students being given the opportunity to see and operate some of the equipment used by First Responders when invesgang these types of calls. 3:45 – 4:00 Aernoon Break 4:00 – 5:00 Odor Invesgaon for First Responders (Connued) 2013 NGA Gas Operations School CUSTOMER SERVICE TRACK Friday, June 7 8:00—9:15 Incident Command William Scoble, Fire Chief Westwood Fire Department James Puleo, Deputy Fire Chief Mansfield Fire Department Interacon between the Fire Department and he Gas Ulity at the scene of incidents is vital to public safety. This course explains the Fire Department’s Incident Command Procedures and the interacon with the gas ulity in making the scene safe. The instructors will explain how it is more effecve when the ulity’s procedures correspond with the Incident Command Procedures. 9:30—10:45 Fire Invesgaon William Scoble, Fire Chief Westwood Fire Department James Puleo, Deputy Fire Chief Mansfield Fire Department Incident Command explains the interacon between the Fire Department and the Gas Ulity at the scene of an incident. Fire Invesgaon will explain how the ulity company should work with the Fire Department to secure the scene as well as their role in the invesgaon. While on the scene, the ulity personnel should begin their invesgaon by deciding on what type of incident they have encountered. What is the cause of the fire? Is the incident caused by natural gas? What should you look for? The instructors will explain the burning characteriscs of various materials to assist you in your determinaon. 10:45—11:00 Morning Break 11:00—12:00 Terrorism William Scoble, Fire Chief Westwood Fire Department James Puleo, Deputy Fire Chief Mansfield Fire Department This class will focus on the interacon of the Fire Department, the Ulity, Fire Marshall and the Office of Homeland Security in today’s world. What are some of the quesons and answers we need to know on how we define Terrorism? 19
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