Training course participants must be at least 18 years of age.
An accompanying participant guide will be shipped to the address you enter during the registration process for a shipping/handling fee of $19.95. This will be automatically added on to your total at checkout.
Guides will ONLY be shipped to students residing in the United States and Canada.
All registrations are pending until approved by AFVi. Once your registration request has been reviewed, you will receive notification of your status via email.
Once you receive your login credentials, you will have 45 days to complete the course.
CNG fueling stations are complex systems. Because CNG stations provide extremely high-pressure fuel, NFPA 52 (the primary CNG fueling station design, operation and maintenance code) requires a written maintenance plan for every existing and new station. Station owners, maintenance technicians and third-party providers must understand and implement required maintenance practices to ensure the safety of everyone who enters the station. In addition, they must be able to ensure station reliability and protect the financial investment.
This course teaches station owners, managers, third-party providers and maintenance technicians the maintenance requirements and practices for each component. You'll also learn how to develop and implement the required maintenance plan, how to meet all regulatory requirements, and the practical how-to's of preventive maintenance, diagnostics and troubleshooting, record keeping, and conducting safety evaluations.
This also course provides the knowledge necessary to design and implement a successful maintenance plan that ensures the highest level of equipment and system reliability and fuel quality required by today's NGV operators.
This on-demand e-learning course takes approximately 8 hours to complete and includes knowledge checks and a final exam.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the properties and characteristics of natural gas.
- Identify major fueling station components and their functions, maintenance requirements, common failure causes and corrective action.
- Identify all codes and regulations that apply to fueling station equipment, maintenance and repair.
- Monitor, diagnose and remedy fuel quality issues.
- Define the safety risks, precautions and procedures for maintaining CNG fueling stations.
- Describe the requirements for, and contents and structure of, a CNG fueling station Operation and Maintenance Plan.
- List the intervals, methods and record keeping tasks association with conducting a CNG fueling station safety evaluation.
Course Outline:
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Properties and Characteristics of Natural Gas
Module 3: Gas Quality
Module 4: Introduction to Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Stations
Module 5: Gas Dryer
Module 6: Prime Mover
Module 7: Compressors and Accessories
Module 8: Programmable Logic Control System
Module 9: Priority Control System
Module 10: Storage System
Module 11: Dispensers, Sequential Systems and Card Readers
Module 12: Filtration
Module 13: Tube Fittings
Module 14: Air Compressor and Air Dryer
Module 15: Waste Disposal
Module 16: The Operation Maintenance Plan
Module 17: CNG Fueling Station Safety Procedures and Guidelines
Module 18: Fueling Station Safety Evaluation
Online registration requires a credit card and is subject to a 3% processing fee.