Carbon Training Center

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science of activated carbon and its treatment applications for industrial water and air. Explained in this presentation are the physical characteristics of activated carbon, how the material is manufactured and reactivated, industry regulations, and the technical aspects of liquid and vapor adsorption systems.

1. What is Activated Carbon and how does it work.
2. Starting Materials/Manufacture of Carbon.
3. Basics of liquid and vapor phase carbon systems.
4. Adsorption equipment.
5. Spent carbon reactivation.
6. Applications and regulations.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of Disinfection By-Product (DBP) challenges affecting the municipal drinking water industry. Provide is an update on US-EPA Sage II DBPR regulations, as well as recommended compliance solutions that remediate targeted contaminants.

1. Reviewing the regulated DBP challenges.
2. Determining the emerging DBP challenge.
3. Applying technology to the DBP challenges.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science of activated carbon and its water treatment applications. Explained in this presentation are the physical properties of activated carbon, how the material is manufactured, and the water filtration and purification process in which activated carbon removes organic compounds through adsorption.

1. Define activated carbon.
2. Describe how activated carbon works.
3. Explain the activation process of how activated carbon is made.
4. Successfully apply activated carbon technology.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science and technologies involved with determining the source of taste and water issues that challenge municipal drinking water systems, as well as solutions that remove and control the contributing contaminants.

1. Defining taste and odor.
2. Taste and odor regulations.
3. Measuring taste and odor.
4. Determining the source of taste and odor.
5. Solving taste and odor issues.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science and technologies involved with utilizing Ultraviolet (UV) light for drinking water disinfection. Explained in this presentation is how UV technology is applied to the drinking water purification process to effectively inactivate Cryptosporidium and other similar pathogens.

1. Defining Ultraviolet (UV) light.
2. UV Markets/Applications.
3. Determining how UV lamps work.
4. Common types of UV lamps.
5. Defining terminology.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science and technologies involved with utilizing Ultraviolet (UV) light for drinking water disinfection. Explained in this presentation is how UV technology is applied to the drinking water purification process to effectively inactivate Cryptosporidium and other similar pathogens.

1. Options for controlling potential risks.
2. How UV disinfection works.
3. Factors affecting system performance.
4. Dose response and reduction equivalent dose.
5. UV system design.

This online educational course is designed to help increase your knowledge and understanding of the basic science and technologies involved with utilizing Ultraviolet (UV) oxidation for water purification. Explained in this presentation is how UV light technology and oxidizing agents are applied to a water treatment process to destroy organic contaminants.

1. UV Oxidation basics.
2. Design Parameters – 3 P’s and a D.
3. Design Test.
4. Reaction Kinetics and UV Utilization.
5. Effect of path length and spectral effects.
6. Dose distribution and CFD modeling.