Copper and Plastic Piping Connections

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This online, interactive course is designed to familiarize participants with basic techniques for correctly installing copper tubing and plastic pipe. After completing this course, participants should be able to calculate fitting take-off for copper fittings, solder copper fittings to copper tubing, calculate fitting take-off for plastic fittings, and join plastic pipe and fittings using the solvent cement method.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

List three types of copper tubing Describe how to make a take-off calculation for copper tubing Describe how to make a copper tubing solder joint List four major types of plastic piping Describe how solvent cement makes a joint (and

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Jay Scheldorf

Jay is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD from the University of Idaho. After graduating school, he worked for UOP, commissioning and troubleshooting oil refinery processes around the world. He was a founding partner at Pacific Simulation. Pacific Simulation provided simulation software, services and simulation-based training to the pulp and paper industry. Jay also spent time as a control engineer at Ahlstrom, working primarily on Kamyr digesters. At Convergence Training he developed and supervised the production of hundreds of pulp and paper related animated computer-based training modules, as well as variety of general technical and safety related modules.