Marcel Moreau has provided training courses on nearly every UST related topic, including:
- UST system components (what they are, how they work, how to install them)
- leak detection methods (how they work, what leaks they find, and what leaks they miss)
- corrosion protection (how it works, how to test it, how to troubleshoot)
- accident investigations (how leaks and spills happened, how people get hurt, errors that led to the incident)
Course length ranges from an hour to a week and can be tailored to specific audiences and specific states. Training topics include:
- Tank and piping installation
- pre- and post-installation testing
- excavation and backfill requirements
- Automatic tank gauges (ATGs)
- magnetostrictive and other probes
- periodic and continuous (CSLD, SCALD) tests
- Line leak detectors
- how mechanical line leak detectors (MLLD) find leaks
- how electronic line leak detectors (ELLD) find leaks
- Leak detection sensors
- discriminating and non-discriminating
- float switches
- polymer
- optical
- Overfill prevention
- fuel delivery procedures and equipment
- overfill shutoff valves (flapper valves)
- ball float valves
- overfill alarms
- Fuel inventory control
- principles of inventory control
- sources of error in inventory control
- making sense of inventory control data
- graphical analysis of inventory control records
- identifying leaks using inventory control
- How USTs leak
- the human factor
- corrosion
- Corrosion and cathodic protection
- chemistry of corrosion on buried steel
- how anodes and cathodes are formed on USTs
- principles of cathodic protection
- how cathodic protection is applied to USTs
- how to test the effectiveness of cathodic protection
- UST safety
- flash point, flammable range, fire triangle
- purging and inerting
- UST removal safety
- case histories
- fueling fires