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Improve Maintenance with Valve and Hose Tags
How to Improve Your Maintenance Program with Valve and Hose Tags Imagine you are a technician performing maintenance on an industrial fluid system. You receive a new work order—several hoses require attention in a certain application in the system. You take a look at the relevant application, and...
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2020 Blogs in Review
2020 In Review: What You Wanted to Know in an Unprecedented Year Have you ever wondered how we come up with topics for Swagelok Reference Point each week? The formula is simple: Our blogs are based on the conversations our global team has with customers every day. In 2020—an unprecedented yea...
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Introduction to Gas Distribution
Gas Distribution Systems The principal aim of this document is to explore and highlight factors that mostdirectly impact the design, operation, and maintenance of industrial grade gasdistribution systems. We examine how and why GDSs often represent a rich opportunity for operationalimprovement...
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Back-Pressure Regulator Set-Up: Tips for Sampling System Engineers
Back-Pressure Regulator Set-Up: Tips for Sampling System Engineers Jon Kestner, Product Manager Back-pressure regulators play an important role in maintaining upstream pressure and protecting sensitive equipment in sampling systems used in many industrial facilities. To make proper use of a b...
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How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical Instrumentation System
How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical System Mike Strobel, Field Engineering Supervisor Process measurements are instantaneous, but analyzer responses never are. From the tap to the analyzer, there is always a time delay. Unfortunately, this delay is often underestimated o...
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Valve Selection 101: What You Should Know
Valves 101: Basic Functions and Types of Industrial Valves Industrial fluid systems should be designed and built with the right components to reliably function as intended. Valves play an important role here, allowing operators to effectively control system fluid flow to best suit the application’s...
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Chikyu: Exploring Earth’s Secrets with Offshore Drilling
Deep-Sea Research Vessel Uses Offshore Drilling Techniques to Unlock Earth’s Secrets The deepest parts of the ocean floor hold the answers to some of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. The gradual movement of the planet’s crust and plate tectonics reveals clues to unlocking those mysteries—or what res...
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Semiconductor Manufacturing: Why Fast Support Matters
How Local Support Can Reduce Costs for Semiconductor Fabricators Consider a potentially grim scenario for any semiconductor fabricator: a pneumatic valve failure. While it might sound mundane to an outsider, this valve helps enable the supply of critical chemistry to an important tool that is expec...
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Closed Loop Sampling Systems: How to Reduce Emissions
How to Reduce Fugitive Emissions With Closed-Loop Sampling Systems Unintentional release of emissions into the atmosphere can occur at various locations throughout refineries or chemical plants. And due to increasingly stringent regulatory measures across the globe, there has never been more press...
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How to Flatten a Regulator Flow Curve to Reduce Droop
How to Flatten a Regulator Flow Curve to Reduce Droop Jon Kestner Consistent pressure control is essential to the safe operation of industrial fluid systems. Maintaining a reliable downstream pressure with a regulator can help minimize flow rate changes, especially in a high-flow system. Howeve...