UOB Organizes a Workshop for “GPIC” Employees

UOB Organizes a Workshop for “GPIC” Employees on Methods for Evaluating and Maintaining Heat Exchangers

 

The Community Service and Continuing Education Center, affiliated with the Office of the Vice President for Community Service and Alumni Affairs at the University of Bahrain, held a training workshop for employees of the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (“GPIC”). The workshop was titled: “Evaluation and Maintenance of Heat Exchangers.”

 

The workshop aimed to develop the participants’ capabilities in dealing with precise thermal equipment, enhance their technical skills, link theoretical technical information with practical applications, and foster a constructive environment for communication between the university and various industrial establishments in the Kingdom.

 

The workshop covered several key topics, including: the fundamentals of heat exchangers and their types, their evaluation according to the approved standards followed in industrial plants, the impact of operational conditions on the efficiency of heat exchangers, technical problems associated with operations, failure analysis and finding appropriate solutions, methods for maintaining heat exchangers, the procedures followed during maintenance, methods for inspecting heat exchangers and conducting necessary tests in accordance with quality systems, and modeling and simulating heat exchangers using modern software.

 

The workshop was presented by two professors from the Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering at UOB: Associate Professor Husny Mohammed Al-Zubair and Assistant Professor Sabri Mohamed Mrayed.

 

 

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