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Fives North American
Cleveland, OH 44105 USA
Tel: 216.271.6000
Fax: 216.641.7852
Next Seminar
September 10-11-12, 2013
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For over 50 years, our public combustion seminars have set the standard for educating industry about the latest combustion techniques, technology, development, products, and solutions for all high temperature applications.
Effective Combustion and its Control
Tuesday - Sept. 10
Combustion Fundamentals: Flame Stability and Available Heat
- John Nowakowski
Fuels: Comparisons, Alternates, Handling
- Fred McMann
Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics in Furnaces, Fitting Flames
- John Nowakowski
Burner Equipment, Applications, Sizing
- Fred McMann
Blowers
- Keith Simon
Air/fuel Ratio: Effects, Measurement, Control
- Fred McMann
Combustion Chamber Pressure Control
- Zach Smith
Questions / Discussion
- Fred McMann
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HOSTED RECEPTION and DINNER
Wednesday - Sept. 11
Heat Recovery: Preheat Load, Air
- Fred McMann
Burner Management: Pilots, Monitoring
- Steve Kovacik
Start-up, Shut down, Troubleshooting I
- Pete Fontana
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PLANT TOUR
Breakout sessions:
Burner and Linkage Adjustments
SSOV Leak Test
Combustion Demo Unit
- Lab
Air and Burner Sizing Calculations
- Fred McMann
Flow Calculations, Adjustments
- Pete Fontana
Thursday - Sept. 12
Combustion Controls; PC, PLC, Dedicated
- Randy Lotz
Acoustics - Noise in Combustion Systems
- Fred McMann
Burner Emissions
- John Nowakowski
Start-up, Shut Down, Troubleshooting II
- Pete Fontana
Breakout sessions:
Boilers and Process Heaters
- Fred McMann
Aluminum Melting
- Clive Lucas
Hands-on Ratio Setting, Emissions Testing
More on Combustion Demo Unit
- Lab
Forge Furnace Applications
- Justin Dzik
SEMINAR LEADERS
JUSTIN DZIK
Experienced in high temperature system applications, process heat transfer, and temperature uniformity.
PETE FONTANA
Extensive experience in field service, trouble-shooting, start-up, and maintenance.
STEVE KOVACIK
Control Systems Engineer with over 15 years experience as a system integrator, designing motor control systems for the mining industry, marine propulsion and industrial processes.
RANDY LOTZ
Chemical Engineer with over 30 years experience in applied process control and automation, with the last 20 years spent in the field of combustion.
CLIVE LUCAS
15 years experience as an engineer in the field of combustion. Has spent that last nine years focusing on aluminum melting applications and is presently manager of FivesNA’s high temp application group.
FRED McMANN
Long academic background in combustion, processing, furnace design plus over 20 years field experience.
JOHN NOWAKOWSKI
Over 10 years experience in application and analysis of energy conversion, process heat transfer, process economics and controls algorithms.
KEITH SIMON
30 plus years in the industrial fan/blower business with particular expertise in direct drive low volume/high pressure units as used in the combustion industry.
ZACH SMITH
Combustion and Controls Engineer with experience in combustion system design including ratio control, component selection, and sizing.
