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TRAINING

Catalyst Activator Training

We provide comprehensive training on catalyst activator systems, covering engineering and design, operations, maintenance, and process optimization. The program addresses key considerations across process engineering, instrumentation and controls, mechanical design, and metallurgy.

Training Topics

  • Introduction to catalyst activation

  • Activator charging and pneumatic conveying systems

  • Gas-fired activator heating systems

  • Electric activator heating systems

  • Fluidizing air preheating systems

  • Activator temperature control systems

  • Fluid bed and fluidizing gas control systems

  • Internal filtration systems

  • External filtration systems

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Combustion and Burner Management System Training

Combustion systems present significant operational and safety risks. For this reason, many jurisdictions require facility owners and operators to ensure that personnel working with this equipment are properly trained in the associated hazards, safeguards, and operating requirements.

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Course Purpose and Audience

This course is designed for process, instrumentation and controls, maintenance, and operations personnel. It outlines the general requirements for the safe operation of combustion equipment and provides practical context for understanding burner management system requirements.

Regulatory and Standards Context

Across North American requirements—including OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119, NFPA provisions, and CSA requirements—the underlying themes are consistent: owners and operators are responsible for managing combustion-system risks and maintaining appropriate safeguards.

Course Approach and Customization

The course combines modern combustion-system theory with practical guidance on risk mitigation, including basic combustion engineering and the functional safety approach. While safety and automation platforms are discussed, core sections are designed to be logic-platform and equipment-type agnostic.
Where required, course sections can be customized for the plant’s specific equipment, fuel types, and automation safety platform. The content is suitable for a wide range of combustion equipment, including cement kilns, air heaters, incinerators, thermal oxidizers, enclosed flares, and similar systems.

Training Topics

  • Basic combustion theory

  • Safety codes and standards

  • Performance-based and prescriptive standards

  • P&ID review

  • Fuel valve trains

  • Combustion hazards

  • Purging

  • Flame supervision

  • High-temperature bypass

  • Burner management system definitions

  • BMS key requirements

  • BMS logic solvers

  • Functional testing

  • Burner shutdown interlocks

  • Sequence of operations

About the Trainer

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Our lead trainer brings extensive engineering, process safety, combustion, and catalyst activator experience to the training program.

Qualifications and Professional Memberships

•    Over 30 years of engineering experience.
•    B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
•    Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and Alberta, Canada.
•    Multidisciplinary engineer.
•    Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
•    Senior Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
•    Certified TÜV (SIS) Functional Safety Engineer for 14 years.

Technical Experience

Our lead trainer has approximately 20 years of experience with catalyst activator systems, including research and development, detailed design, startups, commissioning, training, engineering management, and technical leadership. His work has involved traveling to more than 20 countries across major continents to deliver his expertise.
He has also been a certified Microsoft software developer for Windows since 2001 and has developed windows-based engineering software tools in his areas of expertise, including combustion engineering and cloud-based functional safety SIL verification tools.
He has contributed to more than five dozen burner management systems (BMS) and is regarded as a leading expert in this field.

Delivery Options

Courses can be tailored to your team’s needs and delivered either online, at your facility or at our premises for smaller groups.

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