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This course is designed to provide utility operating personnel, power plant designers, and other interested parties with a basic understanding of the concepts, hardware and functions of fire protection as they apply to the electric power generating industry. This understanding is the starting point for providing and maintaining appropriate fire protection for power plants.

The three-day course is followed by an optional fourth-day session devoted to fire protection of nuclear power plants.

Please see the following detailed information about the course for all necessary information.

Course Highlights

Information will be presented on the following important fire protection areas:

Fire Protection Principles

Chemistry & Physics of Fire
Fire Detection Systems
Fire Suppression Systems
Passive Fire Protection
Life Safety Requirements
Fire Emergency Planning
Industrial Fire Hazards

Power Plant Fire Hazards & Protection

Turbines/Generators
Electrical Equipment/Auxiliaries
Grouped Electrical Cables
Coal-Fired Power Plants
Gas- & Oil-Fired Power Plants
Hydroelectric Power Plants
Combustion Turbines

Optional Nuclear Course

The following information on fire protection for nuclear power plants will be presented on the optional 4th day:

NRC Requirements (Past, Present and Future)
Appendix R Requirements
Current Fire Protection Issues
Plant Specific Hazards (PWR and BWR)

Schedule

WHEN	Conventional Power Plants	Nuclear Power Plant Option
	August 11 - 13, 2008	August 14, 2008
	December 8-10, 2008	December 11, 2008
	WHERE		Knoxville Hilton Hotel 501 West Church Street Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
COST & TERMS		$995 for the 3-day course (Excluding travel and living expenses)
COST & TERMS		$1,195 for the 4-day course (Excluding travel and living expenses)

For more details or to register for the seminar, please call our training division at (865) 376-1131. Please make your check payable to HSB Professional Loss Control, P.O. Box 585, Kingston, Tennessee 37763.

For On-Line Registration: Click here.

HSB Professional Loss Control has reserved a block of guest rooms for course participants at the Hilton at a group rate of $104 plus tax/single room. Please make your room reservations at least 30 days in advance to obtain the group rate by calling the Hilton at (865) 523-2300. Be sure to refer to our seminar (Group Code HB9) in order to obtain the group rate. Please indicate your preference on the course registration form below.

Classes conclude at approximately 3:30 p.m. on both the third and fourth days.

Instructors

HSB Professional Loss Control is a dynamic engineering consulting firm that provides a broad range of services in the field of fire protection engineering. A major portion of the company's activities have centered on fire protection and risk management applied to the utilities industries throughout the United States and overseas. These fire protection services have included developing fire hazard analyses, developing engineering design criteria, developing design specifications, reviewing engineering design, developing and presenting training programs, reviewing research and testing programs, developing detailed plant prefire plans, and providing inspections and audit services. This experience provides us with a valuable understanding of fire hazards and current hazard control techniques available to the electric power generating industry.

The course is presented by experienced fire protection engineers who are also well qualified instructors. HSB Professional Loss Control personnel have been involved in the development and presentation of over 140 courses and seminars on fire protection for power plants since 1976.