The 5-day course is designed to provide participants with an overall understanding of Gas Chromatograph operation, engineering and maintenance.

·         For Maintenance staff, engineers and technicians who want to obtain skill of engineering and maintenance Gas Chromatograph

·         Participants should preferably have some fundamental knowledge on process measurement and control

·         Participants should be familiar with Gas Chromatograph operation and understands the operational data sheets. Preferably, with some working experience on Gas Chromatograph

·         To foster an appreciation and motivate greater interest on the analyzers and the advance technological techniques applied

·         Providing an in depth knowledge for proper maintenance and trouble-shooting to maximize analyzer up-time

·         To improve competence and confidence of personnel attending to the analyzers during troubleshooting and fault finding

·         Class Room Instruction

·         Laboratory Work: Demonstration & Practices

·         Introduction to Process Gas Chromatography

·         Principle of operation of Process Gas Chromatography

·         Basic Gas Chromatography terminology

·         Introduction to different function blocks of Process Gas Chromatography Analyser

·         Main components and their functions:

§  Oven, Column, Detectors, Switching Valves and Processor.

·         Operation of Gas Chromatograph

§  Injection, Separation, Detection and Calculation

·         Sample Handling System

§  Vapouriser, filter, fast loop, switching valves and vents

·         Extra feature in GC1000 MK I / GC1000MK II

§  Programmed temperature oven

§  Liquid Sample Valve

§  Air Bath oven

·         Laboratory work:

§  Maintenance on Yokogawa PGC parts

·         Explanation of Yokogawa GC operation data and table parameters

·         Continuation of operation data and table parameters explanation.

·         Laboratory work:

§   GC display

Interface ( LCD) operation and Gas Chromatograph Maintenance Terminal (GCMT) operation

·         Proper startup and shutdown procedures for PGC

·         Tuning PGC.

·         Yokogawa PGC calibration procedure

·         PGC fault finding and troubleshooting skills