Air Compressors, Operation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Compressed air is the most expensive utility on most sites and the least examined. A system typically leaks a quarter to a third of what it makes, runs at a pressure set by the one application that needed it years ago, and uses air for tasks a fan would do. The machine itself is then blamed for a cost the system created. This week covers the compressor and the system together: how each type behaves, what the air treatment has to achieve, where the energy actually goes, and how to troubleshoot a fault rather than replace a component.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Match a compressor type to a duty, including part load behaviour.
• Specify air treatment from the actual quality the application needs.
• Find and quantify leakage, and cost it.
• Decide the system pressure from demand rather than from history.
• Troubleshoot capacity, temperature and condensate faults to a cause.

Utilities and plant operators, maintenance technicians and engineers responsible for compressed air, energy managers, and reliability staff.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A demand and leakage assessment for the delegate's own system, costed.
• A treatment specification matched to the applications it serves.
• A troubleshooting routine for the three faults their plant sees most.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.