Fundamentals of Compressed Air Training- Fayetteville, AR

This one-day introductory course will help to show facility engineers, operators and maintenance staff how to reach up to 15-25% cost savings through more effective production and use of compressed air. The instructor will identify basic approaches for cutting costs; identify steps for proper system operation, maintenance, and point-of- use accountability; and show you how to tailor a compressed air system management action plan for your plant.

This event has been confirmed. Registration extended to Sunday, October 10, 2021.

This course is also a highly recommended prerequisite to the two day Level 2-Advanced Management of Compressed Air scheduled to be held in Fayetteville, Arkansas on October 13-14, 2021.

Attendance may be limited due to COVID-19; social distancing and sanitary precautions will be followed within the classroom to provide a safe training environment for instructors and attendees.

This class is sponsored by Energy Efficiency Arkansas and is subsidized for Arkansas residents. 

Participants will Learn to:  

• Calculate the energy cost of compressed air in their facility
• Improve compressed air system efficiency and reliability
• Identify inappropriate uses of compressed air
• Establish a baseline by which improvements in compressed air performance and efficiency can be measured
• Match system supply to actual production requirements for pressure and flow
• Find and repair leaks while establishing a leak prevention program
• Better control compressed air to improve productivity and profitability

Who Should Participate?

This training has been developed for end users, maintenance and operations staff, plant managers, engineers, distributors, manufacturers, vendors or consultants.

*Attendees earn credit for six (6) hours of attendance for this training*

The Compressed Air Challenge is a Department of Energy recommended, voluntary collaboration of industrial users; manufacturers, distributors and their associations; facility operating personnel and their associations; energy efficiency organizations, and utilities. The mission of the Compressed Air Challenge is to provide resources that educate industry about optimizing their compressed air systems and thereby increasing net profits.

About the Instructor(s):  

Mr. Frank Moskowitz has an extensive background with over 30 years experience in plant engineering. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and education, including the refrigeration, electrical, plumbing trades. For the past 20 years, Frank has been an associate of Draw Professional Services primarily in the auditing, consulting, training and system design fields. His specialty consists of Compressed Air Systems (oil flooded and oil free), Vacuum Systems, Contaminate Removal, System Design and Energy Management. Frank is a compressed air challenge instructor for the Fundamentals and Advanced level of training, an AIRMaster+ instructor and a Department of Energy (energy savings) expert on compressed air systems. Frank is also Vice-Chair for ASME Standard EA-4-2010 “Energy Assessment for Compressed Air Systems”; and is a member of International Standards Organization (ISO) technical committee for Air Compressors and compressed air systems energy management; TC118/SC6/WG4.

Lunch will be provided each day and out of state attendees are welcome to register for this training at the full cost of $275.00.

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