Practical Methods For Improving Efficiency And Safety Of Painting Operations

Overview

The only training class of its kind that provides in-depth technical details on spray booths, spray guns, specific coating processes and a variety of environmental and health issues.

Who Should Attend?

Environmental managers, paint facility engineers, supervisors, lead painters, and purchasers of painting
equipment will find this class to be invaluable.

Topics to be Covered

Spray Booth Issues: Details regarding the design, specification, and operation of dry filter and water wash spray booths, what filters to select and when to change them, typical problems encountered in booths, how to maintain a spray booth, monitoring air velocity and turbulence in a spray booth, and a whole host of other useful topics will be discussed.

Spray Gun Issues: Participants will first learn the differences between HVLP, conventional air atomizing, airless and air-assisted airless guns, how they function, which comply with EPA regulations, how to select spray guns for particular applications, how to clean and maintain the spray guns and associated equipment, and how to set up the spray guns to achieve optimum transfer efficiency.  Some topics will be covered that have never been addressed in national coating seminars, including: as the mechanism of paint atomization, how to get sufficient compressed air to a spray gun, selecting the most appropriate regulators and fittings for air hoses, minimizing pressure differentials, and more.

Specific Coating Processes: Details of both powder and liquid coating systems will be discussed, including the basic chemical and physical properties of the coatings, application procedures, as well as proper mixing techniques.  Mechanical and chemical preparation of substrate and the associated effect on adhesion and coating properties will be covered.  Various quality control measurements and instruments will also be discussed as well as some common paint defects and procedures for touch-up repairs. 

Environmental Issues: Throughout the 4-day training program, the importance of health and safety will be emphasized along with techniques that can help reduce hazardous waste.  In addition, some OSHA’s new Chromium VI standard will be discussed and techniques for minimizing chromate emissions from painting operations will be provided.  Participants will be taught how to perform important environmental calculations such as calculating spray booth emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) to determine if a facility is in incompliance with local or state regulations.

Faculty Bios

Eric Guyer, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Eric P. Guyer is a Senior Managing Engineer at Exponent and is based in Menlo Park, CA.  His areas of expertise include materials science, paints and protective coatings, and the fracture mechanics and fatigue of bulk materials as well as thin-films.  Dr. Guyer has specific experience in failure analysis investigations of semiconductor materials and devices used for microelectronic, biomedical, or optical system applications including those in which the materials or devices are subjected to harsh environmental conditions (e.g. chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), or the human body).  He is also an expert in the area of mechanical testing of films and protective coatings (e.g. interfacial adhesion, cohesion, fatigue, subcritical crack growth / stress corrosion cracking) as well as materials characterization techniques used for complex thin-film device structures.   Dr. Guyer conducts failure analysis investigations and engineering evaluations of various paint and protective coating systems applied to a wide variety of steel, aluminum, plastic, brick and stucco structures such as railings, windows, fences, buildings as well as consumer products such as remote controls.  He has experience with powder coatings as well as solvent and waterborne liquid paints.

For more information, contact Eric Guyer at 650-688-7060 or via email.