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CROWN Solutions, Inc. Technical Resource

Introduction
Jim Marten - Vice President/Marketing Manager

WELCOME to the CROWN Solutions, Inc. Water Technology Exposition!

We are having our annual technology exposition and open house on Monday, May 2, 2005, and are hoping that you can join us.

The purpose for this gathering is to feature new technologies, new products, and new techniques for dealing with the constant challenges of water management in the industrial sector.

If you would like to join us, please feel free to call the numbers on our bulletin, or you can just respond to this e-mail message.

Thank you and best regards.

We will see you at the Water Exposition!

James N. Marten
Vice President/Marketing Manager
Phone: 1-800-875-4075 (x) 211
Fax: (937) 898-7360
jmarten@crownsolutions.com

Water Technology Exposition

MAY 2, 2005

Schedule of Events

*See additional handout for more information on our presenters and their topics.

2005 Technology Demonstrations

2005 Vendors
Manufacturer Booth #

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May 2, 2005 – Technical Seminars

8:00am - Reliability Centered Maintenance
Presenter: Terry Harris

About the Seminar
Determining all the possible failure modes of your equipment is the function of RCM. By doing this process you predict, prevent, eliminate these failures and improve your process to do what it was designed to do. This can lead to improved uptime, reduced quality problems, improve H,S,E for your employees and business.

About the Presenter
Terry’s has spent +25 years of his career in the grain and food processing industry. Most of this time was devoted to maintenance efforts, with the last 5 years being devoted to improving the reliability of his plant and other US and European locations. Along with working as the facility Maintenance and Reliability leader Terry was involved with many corporate wide projects to cut costs and improve equipment reliability. Over the past two years Terry has devoted his efforts in applying the RCM Blitz process to critical pieces of equipment and processes within many industries with excellent results. Terry has performed training in Europe, China, and Thailand, and is working on future projects in Egypt and Korea.

Terry is now working with companies such as Crown Solutions, Reliability Solutions, and Reliable Process Solutions to train clients in the RCM Blitz process. Terry has extensive training and experience in the areas of Predictive technologies to help detect and predict equipment failures. Terry has developed many Proactive maintenance programs to bring maintenance operations to a more efficient and profitable stage. The experience of Proactive and Predictive maintenance goes hand and hand with the RCM Blitz process.

9:00am - Optimizing Membrane Life & Performance
Presenter: Dave Christophersen

About the Seminar Membranes have limited life spans and must be replaced as they foul or degrade. With proper care and monitoring, membrane lives can be lengthened. This seminar will cover membrane monitoring, chemical treatment options, cleaning strategies and procedures, and care techniques including a novel approach of using clean-in-place equipment for temporary membrane layup and cleaning.

About the Presenter
Dave holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Grove City College and an MBA from Butler University. Dave is also Certified as a Water Technologist through the Association of Water Technologies.

His water treatment experience includes fieldwork for the water services division of Olin Corporation starting in 1977, followed by working with Betz, leaving them as a district manager. He then became a member of the CROWN team. Since 1986 Dave has served as a principal and the technical support manager for CROWN Solutions Inc. Providing creative chemical, operational, and equipment solutions is the mission of the company as part of an integrated water management strategy. Training Crown associates and helping to develop the best solution for a client is the task of the technical department and where Dave enjoys concentrating his efforts.

Dave has presented at the Association of Water Technologies on “Understanding Differences of Boiler Feedwater Pretreatment Equipment”, participated in the AWT regional training program, and has co-authored a paper for NACE, “Some Common Mechanisms Leading to Failures in Heat Recovery Steam Generators.”

9:00am – Water Minimization Strategies for Boilers and Cooling Towers
Presenter: Jeff Eldridge

About the Seminar
Boilers and cooling towers require makeup water to function and both generate wastewater as blowdown. Numerous technologies, control schemes, operation changes, etc. are available to minimize the water-usage requirements. This seminar will cover boiler and cooling tower water saving methods that can be applied to save water, sewer and energy costs. Examples of topics covered include:

Boilers: high-purity makeup, condensate return, water chemistry, blowdown controllers

Cooling Towers: soft-water makeup, blended city/soft-water makeup, water chemistry, acid feed, reverse osmosis concentrate, recycled wastewater, blowdown controllers, leaks.

About the Presenter
Jeff Holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Environmental Studies from Wright State University. He is also Certified as a Water Technologist by the Association of Water Technologies.

Jeff spent four years in the United States Air Force as a Staff Chemist, managing IWT programs for individual bases. In 1989, Jeff came to CROWN as a Water Management Specialist. In 1998, Jeff left CROWN to work as Stationary Engineer in the powerhouse at a local Delphi plant. In 2001, he became a Senior Energy Auditor with TAC/Control Solutions in Lebanon, Ohio. We are pleased to report that in 2002 Jeff came back to CROWN, where he is once again a Water Management Specialist. He also works in a Technical Support role at CROWN.

All three of our presenters bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in Water Treatment. If you have questions after the seminars, the can be reached via email for phone: