- On-Site
- July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023
- $2,900
In-Place Filter Testing Workshop
- Program Overview
- Objectives & Highlights
- Credits and Logistics
- Faculty
- Agenda
- Who Should Participate
Program Overview
This on-campus program prepares participants to test and certify systems containing HEPA filtration and gas adsorption systems for nuclear and non-nuclear applications.
Participants learn the latest regulatory requirements for nuclear air cleaning, develop an understanding of filtration theory, and gain the experience they need to maintain air purity with a comprehensive filter system.
This program offers knowledge and essential training that will provide you with the experience and knowledge you need to meet the daily challenges of working with nuclear technology.
In addition to ventilation, the program also includes wide-ranging nuclear and non-nuclear topics relevant to biotechnology, clean rooms, health care, the military and commercial utilities.
Interactive Laboratory Sessions
You will participate in hands-on laboratory sessions. The faculty will guide you through the experiments in real time, providing you with unparalleled access to their expertise. Through these lab sessions, you will have the opportunity to apply the theories learned in class, gain experience operating a variety of testing equipment, and discuss the practical challenges and remedies in working with nuclear-filtration systems.
Program Curriculum
This dynamic curriculum is designed to allow participants to practice the knowledge and skills they need to implement, enhance, or certify nuclear air-filtration systems. In addition to presenting theory and frameworks, the program requires that participants apply theories in interactive laboratory exercises and discuss issues during breakout groups with peers.
Objectives & Highlights
Learning Objectives
- Test and certify high-efficiency particulate air-filtration and gas-adsorption systems for nuclear and non-nuclear applications
- Verify airflow in ventilation and air-cleaning systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of regulations issued by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the United States Department of Energy pertaining to air- and gas-cleaning activities
- Operate testing equipment unique to air-cleaning, gas-cleaning, and ventilation systems
- Discuss how U.S. standards and regulations have become the international standard of excellence, as well as the relationship between the U.S. standards and the safety guides of the International Atomic Energy Agency
- Explore the implementation of U.S. standards, guides, and codes in other countries
Program Highlights
- Certification of nuclear and non-nuclear air-cleaning systems
- U.S. NRC regulatory impact on pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor power plants
- U.S. NRC regulations as they pertain to nuclear air- and gas-cleaning systems
- Nuclear field testing in relation to ASME nuclear standards N-509 and N-510, Regulatory Guide 1.52, and ASME nuclear code AG-1
- Airflow measurements
- Air-filtration and adsorption theory
- Aerosol technology
- Various facets of ventilation systems
- Interactive laboratory sessions
Special Features
- Apply theory in interactive laboratory exercises
- Discuss issues during breakout groups
Credits and Logistics
Accommodations
July 2023
The Inn at Longwood Medical
342 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
TEL: (617) 731-4700 FAX:
$259/night + 16.45% tax
· 5 minute walk to program location
· Complimentary access to Fitness Center
· Complimentary access to High Speed Internet Guest Rooms
· Complimentary In-Room Keurig Coffee
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a reduced rate until July 7, 2023. These rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be advised that hotels in the Boston area can sell out very quickly. We recommend making your hotel reservation as soon as you receive registration and payment confirmation. Please mention group code HFIL2023 and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to receive the special rate.
Continuing Education Credit
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 3.3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 33 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has an Education and Research Center (ERC) funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Faculty
Current faculty, subject to change.
Ronald R. Bellamy, PhD
Program Director
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
John M. Price, PhD, CIH, CSP
Program Director
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Executive and Continuing Professional Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Retired Director, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
Northeastern University
Eric M. Banks
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023NUCON International, Inc.
Dara M. Feddersen, BS, PhD
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Hollingsworth & Vose Company
J. Louis Kovach, DChE
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
President
NUCON International, Inc.
Donald J. Largent, MBA, BSME
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023AAF Flanders Filters Inc
Andrew Stillo Jr., BSME
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Camfil
Charles Waggoner, PhD
Faculty
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023Mississippi State University
Agenda
July 31, 2023 – August 4, 2023
back to topThis agenda is subject to change. All times listed are in Eastern Time (ET).
Monday, July 31, 2023 | ||
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7:30–8:00 am | Check-In and Continental Breakfast | |
8:00–8:15 am | Classroom Technology Orientation | |
8:15–8:45 am | Welcome and Introduction | |
8:45–10:30 am | Price | History of Nuclear Air Cleaning |
10:30–10:45 am | Refreshment Break | |
10:45 am–12:15 pm | Nuclear Air- and Gas-Cleaning Codes and Standards: N-509, N-510, and ASME AG-1 | |
12:15–1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00–2:30 pm | Price | Ventilation Systems: Operation and Testing |
2:30–3:45 pm | Properties of Aerosols and Filtration Theory | |
3:45–4:00 pm | Refreshment Break | |
4:00–4:45 pm | DOP Generators and Light-Scattering Photometers: Theory | Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
7:30–8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00–9:00 am | Performance of Prefilters, Mist Eliminators and Industrial Air Cleaning Systems | |
9:00–10:00 am | Construction and Qualification of ASME AG-1 Section FC HEPA Filters and Media | |
10:00–10:15 am | Refreshment Break | |
10:15–11:45 am | Price | Air-Velocity and Air-Volume Measuring Instruments |
11:45 am–12:00 pm | Price | Discussion of Ventilation Laboratory Exercises |
12:00–12:45 pm | Lunch | |
12:45–1:15 pm | Travel to Northeastern University for Ventilation Lab Session | |
1:15–2:30 pm | Ventilation Lab Session | |
2:30–2:45 pm | Refreshment Break at Northeastern | |
2:45–4:45 pm | Ventilation Lab Session (continued) | |
4:45–5:00 pm | Price | Ventilation Lab Session Critique | Wednesday, August 2, 2023 |
7:30–8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00–9:00 am | Clean Room Technology | |
9:00–10:00 am | HVAC Systems: From Design to Commissioning | |
10:00–10:15 am | Refreshment Break | |
10:15–11:15 am | Operation, Calibration, and Maintenance of Polydisperse Aerosol Generators and Light-Scattering Photometers | |
11:15–11:30 am | Discussion of Filter Testing Instrument Laboratory Exercises | |
11:30 am–12:15 pm | Lunch | |
12:15–12:45 pm | Travel to Northeastern University for In-Place Filter Testing Lab Session | |
12:45–2:15 pm | In-Place Filter Testing Instrument Lab Session Critique: Group A (1, 2, 3) | |
2:15–2:30 pm | Price | In-Place Filter Testing Instrument Lab Session: Group B (4, 5, 6)DOP Generation Output vs. PressurePhotometer Linearity with DOP ConcentrationInternal Reference Light |
2:30–2:45 pm | Refreshment Break at Northeastern | |
2:45–4:00 pm | In-Place Filter Testing Instrument Lab Session: Group B (4, 5, 6) | |
4:00–4:15 pm | Price | In-Place Filter Testing Instrument Lab Session Critique: Group B (4, 5, 6) | Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
7:30–8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00–9:15 am | Applying N-510 Testing Techniques to Portable HEPA Filtration Systems | |
9:15–10:00 am | Gas Adsorption and Adsorbers | |
10:00–10:15 am | Refreshment Break | |
10:15–11:15 am | Gas Adsorption and Adsorbers (Continued) | |
11:15–11:30 am | Discussion of In-Place Testing Laboratory Exercises | |
11:30 am–12:15 pm | Lunch | |
12:15–12:45 pm | Travel to Northeastern University for In-Place Filter Testing Lab Session | |
12:45–2:30 pm | Price | In-Place Testing Lab Session, Filters and Adsorbers |
2:30–2:45 pm | Refreshment Break at Northeastern | |
2:45–4:00 pm | In-Place Testing Lab Session, Filters and Absorbers (continued) | |
4:00–4:30 pm | Price | Demonstrations Hot DOP Generator Bag-In/Bag-Out System |
4:30–5:00 pm | Price | In-Place Testing Lab Session Critique | Friday, August 4, 2023 |
7:30–8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00–9:00 am | Performance of HEPA Filters Under Normal and Upset Conditions | |
9:00–9:15 am | Refreshment Break | |
9:15–11:30 am | Nuclear Air- and Gas Cleaning Regulatory Requirements and Lesson Learned | |
11:30 am–12:00 pm | Program Closing and Evaluation |
Who Should Participate
This program is designed for professionals working with air-filtration systems, particularly nuclear air-filtration systems. Participants with the following job functions and industries are expected to participate:
Job Function:
- Facilities management and maintenance
- HVAC engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Nuclear engineering
- Radiation protection and health physics
- Systems engineering
- Safety and biosafety
Industry:
- Air purification
- Engineering services
- Medical, biological, pharmaceutical, or chemical research
- Other research
- Power generation
- Regulatory bodies