18. Maintenance Objectives
Following completion of Chapter 18, students should be able to:
- Develop a maintenance program for your plant, including equipment, buildings, grounds, channels, and tanks.
- Start a maintenance recordkeeping system that will provide you with information to protect equipment warranties, to prepare budgets, and to satisfy regulatory agencies.
- Schedule maintenance of equipment at proper time intervals.
- Perform maintenance as directed by manufacturers.
- Recognize symptoms that indicate equipment is not performing properly, identify the source of the problem, and take corrective action.
- Recognize the serious consequences that could occur when inexperienced, unqualified, or unauthorized persons attempt to troubleshoot or repair electrical panels, controls, circuits, wiring, or equipment.
- Communicate with electricians by indicating possible causes of problems in electrical panels, controls, circuits, wiring, and motors.
- Properly select and use the following pieces of equipment (if qualified and authorized):
- Multimeter
- Ammeter
- Megger
- Ohmmeter
- Safely operate and maintain auxiliary electrical equipment, including during standby and emergency situations.
- Describe how a pump is put together.
- Discuss the application or use of different types of pumps.
- Start and stop pumps.
- Maintain the various types of pumps.
- Operate and maintain a compressor.
- Develop and conduct an equipment lubrication program.
- Start up, operate, maintain, and shut down gasoline engines, diesel engines, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems.
NOTE: Special maintenance information is given in the previous chapters on treatment processes, where appropriate. The main purpose of this chapter is to teach operators how to develop a maintenance program, schedule maintenance activities, maintain equipment and facilities, record maintenance performed, and analyze maintenance records.
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