RedVector AMPIF01CEN

Pipes and Valves: Installing Flanges, Copper, and Plastic Pipe

Pipes and Valves: Installing Flanges, Copper, and Plastic Pipe

2 hrs. Online Course

Level: Advanced

Item#: AMPIF01CEN

SME: Jim Taube

Installing Flanges, Copper, and Plastic Pipe is a course designed to familiarize participants with basic techniques for correctly installing steel flanges, copper tubing, and plastic pipe. After completing this course, participants should be able to correctly install various types of steel flanges, 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.
Course Objectives
  • Identify various types of flanges.
  • Install various types of flanges.
  • Correctly tighten and torque six-hole, eight-hole, and twelve-hole flanges.
  • Identify common types of copper tubing.
  • Calculate take-off for copper fittings.
  • Solder copper fittings to copper tubing.
  • Identify various types of plastic piping.
  • Calculate take-off for plastic fittings.
  • Join plastic pipe and fittings using the solvent cement method.
  • SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Jim Taube
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    Jim possesses degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University in New York and Electrical Power Technology from Bismarck State College.
     
    He has extensive industrial experience with 23 years in the pulp and paper industry and 12 years in institutional and pharmaceutical facility management.
     
    His responsibilities have included engineering design, electrical and mechanical maintenance, and power plant utilities management.
     
    Areas of expertise include HVAC design, commissioning and qualification, construction administration, and energy cost savings initiatives.
     
    Jim’s credentials include being registered as a Professional Engineer and the Certified Energy Manager and Auditor certifications.
     
    Jim is married and lives in Middletown, OH and has 4 married children.
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