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To schedule private education for your group, contact:

Dale Shuter, CMP
Meetings & Expositions Manager
+1 314 993 2220, ext. 3335
dshuter@easa.com

1 hour of training

$300 for EASA Chapters/Regions
$400 for member companies
$800 for non-members

How a webinar works

All EASA private webinars are live events in which the audio and video are streamed to your computer over the Internet. Prior to the program, you will receive a web link to join the meeting. 

The presentation portion of the webinar will last about 45 minutes, followed by about 15 minutes of questions and answers.

Requirements

  • Internet connection
  • Computer with audio input (microphone) and audio output (speakers) appropriate for your size group
  • TV or projector/screen

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The Zoom webinar service EASA uses will ask to install a small plugin. Your computer must be configured to allow this in order to have full functionality. Please check with your IT department or company's security policy prior to scheduling a private webinar.

Private Webinars

EASA's private webinars are an inexpensive way to bring an EASA engineer into your service center, place of business or group meeting without incurring travel expenses or lost production time.

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Beware of PCBs! (Poly-Chlorinated BiPhenyls)

  • February 2024
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Dale Hamil
Technical Education Committee Member
Illinois Electric Works

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of manmade chemicals. They are oily liquids or solids, clear to yellow in color, with little or no smell or taste, and they are stable mixtures that are resistant to extreme temperature and pressure. The primary company that made PCBs in the United States was Monsanto Inc., mainly using the name Aroclor; however, many companies attached their own brand names, a list of which can be found at the bottom of this article article.

Polychlorinated biphenyls were widely used as dielectric and coolant fluids in transformers, oil filled switches, capacitors, electromagnets, cutting fluids for machining operations and in heat transfer fluids. They were even used in some carbonless copy paper. Oil-filled bushings in transformers over 69KV are known to often contain PCBs. Due to the environmental toxicity and classification as a persistent organic pollutant, PCB production was banned by the United States Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

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