Technical Training Seminars

Attending an AWT Technical Training Seminar will increase your knowledge, wealth & success by providing you with a strong technical background. Attendees can elect to start with the basic course and then continue on to the advanced sessions or stay with the advanced courses throughout. Highlights include:

Sales Training Seminars
This eight-hour sales training seminar, offered by AWT, is different from any current professional sales training program, as it includes marketing, the basics of business/sales management and the employer’s needs of sales people. The class is being presented by Colin Frayne, CWT, Aquassurance, Inc. a practical water treater for over 40 years. The program has just the right mix of theory and practical advice.
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Service Technician Training
A full, 3-day training course designed to introduce new employees to the water management industry as well as to further expand the knowledge and skills of those presently within the industry as Service and Account Management Representatives. Each session has specific Learning Objectives and is presented utilizing some or all of the following Teaching/Learning Skills: small group discussions, group presentations, lectures, in-class exercises, quizzes, class participation/demonstrations, workshops, and homework. Prerequisites: Prior to attending this course, attendees should review with their supervisors the following:

• Service Technician Job Description and Responsibilities.
• Requirements pertaining to service activity and frequency, scheduling and reporting.
• Types of chemical feed and control equipment used by their companies.
• Field test equipment and procedures used.
• Recent company Service Report examples.
• Key company boiler water and cooling water treatments frequently used.
• Recent challenging account situations.

Water Treatment Training
Boiler Water Treatment
This section will cover the typical problems encountered in boiler water systems and how they are treated. Students will learn the proper use and application of boiler water products and how to trouble-shoot boiler systems.

Calculations
Water treatment personnel must understand calculations to develop and maintain a boiler water treatment program. Students will be challenged to use these calculations and the information provided in previous sections to solve real world problems. A brief homework assignment will be provided and later reviewed.

Cooling Water Chemistry, Corrosion and Scale
Attendees will receive a comprehensive overview of deposit and corrosion chemistry including how chemicals are used in the treatment of deposit and corrosion related problems.

Cooling Water Microbiology and Biofilms
This discussion covers the wide variety of problems related to the uncontrolled growth of microorganisms in cooling water systems. Biofilm related problems such as fouling, deposits, corrosion and disease and treatment strategies are discussed.

Feed and Control Equipment
This session provides a primer on the equipment and control systems for boiler and cooling water systems. Students will leave with a conceptual understanding of these systems and exposure to a wide variety of options.

Pretreatment/Filtration
Students will discuss the equipment that makes up typical low pressure boiler water systems and how they work, including an explanation of water softeners and their function.

Regulatory and Safety Issues
This overview is designed to provide the new water treatment representative, and the CWT exam candidate, with a basic understanding of the important regulatory issues that they will encounter in today’s market.

Water Chemistry
This session will cover fundamentals of chemistry, required to provide new water treatment personnel with an understanding of the terminology they need to know to perform in the field. Concepts such as pH, alkalinity, hardness, and other ions, and how they relate to deposits and corrosion, are discussed.

Water Testing
This class is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the chemical tests used to monitor cooling water and boiler water treatment programs.

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