February 6, 2004

It is with regret that we must announce that EPRI and its EPRISolutions affiliate will no longer sponsor public and in-plant offerings of the MGT Inc copyrighted courses, “Closed Feedwater Heaters – Mechanical Aspects” and “Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance and Repair”. In-plant offerings of these courses are available from MGT Inc. We are negotiating with another organization for public offerings.

EPRISolutions decided not to present these courses and terminated the course. However, EPRISolutions did not inform MGT Inc. of their decision. This resulted in people who attempted to contact EPRISolutions to inquire about or register for the courses being unable to do so.

E-mails that you may have received announcing these courses were the result of an agreement between MGT Inc. and EPRISolutions. We apologize for any inconvenience our inadvertent misinformation may have caused.

December 1st, 2003

A new Technical Tip was published - Technical Tips Vol. 1 No.5 has on specifying and operating heat exchangers

October 3rd, 2003

The MGT Informal Consulting Network is pleased to welcome Jack Burns and his firm Burns Engineering. Jack is a Professional Engineer and Fellow of the ASME and a well known expert on steam surface condensers and cooling towers. Please see "About Us" for Jack's background.

September 9th, 2003

A new Technical Tip was posted - Technical Tips Vol. 1, No. 4 has tips on sleeving feedwater heaters.

July 22nd, 2003

MGT's copyrighted Closed Feedwater Heater Suite has been updated. The update includes references to ASME Code Part UHX and specific requirements for fouling resistances. The sale price remains unchanged. MGT's ©Closed Feedwater Heater Suite CD is also available from the publisher of Power Engineering, PennWell Books of Tulsa, Oklahoma. When ordering from PennWell Books request the updated version.

MGT has revised and updated our ©Power Point CD presentations and printed course notes of our courses , "©Closed Feedwater Heaters - Mechanical Aspects" , "©Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers - Mechanical Aspects, and "©Tubular Heat Exchanger, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair". The updates include references to ASME Code Part UHX . Each course comes complete with a hard copy of course notes in a loose leaf binder.

Click on Products and Services for prices of the Closed Feedwater Heater Suite and to view the table of contents for each course presentation.

Contact us for more information.

Presentations of public offerings and in-plant presentations of the courses may be purchased from Seminars and Conferences Group International, LLC.

See updates to the Revised Schedule of Training Courses below.

June 17th, 2003

Paper No. IPGC 2003-40172, "Replacing a Fixed Tubesheet Feedwater Heater Design Installed in a Condenser Neck with a U-tube Design" by Danny Hughes of Arkansas Nuclear One and Stanley Yokell of Mgt Inc was presented at the International Joint Power Conference in Atlanta.

A CD of the Power Point presentation are available from MGT Inc. on request for $25 plus handling and shipping. Check or purchase order only.

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Expansion Seal Technologies of Harleysville, Pennsylvania, leader in tube plugging technology and manufacturer of the ™Pop-a-Plug, Weld Test Plug and similar devices will manufacture and distribute Stanley Yokell's patented device (U.S. Patent No. 5,597, 276) for venting tubes behind tubesheets before plugging. See the details about our Vent Tool product.

A CD with Power Point presentations of "Hydraulic Tube Expansion in Feedwater Heater Construction, Maintenance and Repair" by Russell Wasson and Stanley Yokell and "A Recapitulation of When to Plug Non-leaking Feedwater Heater Tubes" by Carl F. Andreone and Stanley Yokell, presented at the EPRI Feedwater Heater Seminar, October 2001 is available on request.