Monday, July 12
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Presented by
Michael Catapano, Fellow of ASME, President, Powerfect Inc.
Eric Svensson, VP - Engineering, Powerfect, Inc.

Course Outline General Description of Closed Feedwater Heater Design Basic Overview Feedwater Heater Internals and Functions Heat Transfer Relationships Standards and Guidelines Operational Guidelines Basic Overview Systems Approach On-line Performance Monitoring Performance Testing - Heat Balances Performance Modeling Significant Patterns of Failure & Understanding Key Problems Level Control Tube Vibration Flow Acceleration Corrosion Water Chemistry & Corrosion Steam Impingement Principal Areas of Susceptibility Corrective Maintenance Practices Tube Plugging Principal Problems Outage Conditions Plug Types - Pros and Cons Lifecycle Management Approach Routine Inspection and Testing NDE Metallurgical Analysis Failed Tube Sampling Failure Cause Analysis- The Primary Objective