Welcome to Fuel and Combustion Systems Safety - Gas Piping Repairs and Cleaning.
In this course we provide advanced concepts for facilitating the safe repair and cleaning of gas piping systems. Some of the most significant and horrific tragedies have come about from mistakes made in preparing gas piping for maintenance, bringing gas piping back into service, and trying to clean gas lines. The concepts presented in this course need to be made the subject of policies and practices with both designers and maintenance staffs. A section at the end of this course highlights a relatively new standard, NFPA 56, Standard for Fire and Explosion Prevention During Cleaning and Purging of Flammable Gas Piping Systems, which is central to this topic. It took many months of meetings with contributions from over a dozen experts to write NFPA 56. This is a very important and ground breaking piece of work that applies directly too many of the concepts presented in this course. Anyone who does or oversees activities related to gas line repairs and cleaning must become familiar with this standard. This course is not a design guide or a “how to” for gas line purging and cleaning. Each site and its circumstances and conditions are different, and nothing here should be seen as a replacement for sound engineering judgment and the requirements prescribed by applicable codes. Throughout the course Subject Matter Expert John R. Puskar will provide real-life stories and the lessons learned from them.
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