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Medium-Pressure Ball Valves for Hydraulic Power Units
For-Purpose Design: Ocean Edge Services Employs Decades of Field Experience to Develop HPUs for Offshore Applications It all started with a vision. Santiago “Chili” Gomez spent decades working on large subsea offshore oil and gas drilling projects, learning the nuances of the complex processes. ...
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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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Improving Lab Safety and Productivity
Why Proper Gas Distribution Is Essential for Optimized Laboratory Operations Wouter Pronk, senior field engineer, Swagelok Imagine yourself as a laboratory technician. As you perform your intended testing or analysis, you approach a point of use for a particular gas. You activate a mechanism t...
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Inventory and Innovation at a Carbon Capture Company
Consignment Inventory Helps Carbon Capture Tech Company Save Thousands Annually Failure is not an option for carbon capture company LanzaTech’s Georgia-based facility, Freedom Pines—especially when doing the important work of helping its customers convert carbon emissions into usable fuels and chem...
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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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Improving Output Quality and Production Efficiency
Fiber Optics Equipment Manufacturer Increases Efficiency with Customized Solutions Rosendahl Nextrom is a leading supplier of production equipment technologies for optical fibers and fiber optical cables for the telecommunications industry. Its core competencies include providing solutions used i...
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Enhance Safety and Save with Optimized Materials
Why Optimized Fluid System Material Selection Can Help Improve Offshore Safety and Reduce Costs Cost optimization is one of the most important goals for owners of offshore oil and gas platforms and floating vessels —second only to ensuring safe and compliant operation throughout the platform’s lif...
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How to Test a Regulator to Verify Performance
Why Safe Industrial Pressure Regulator Performance Requires Rigorous Testing Back-pressure regulators and pressure-reducing regulators are used in a wide variety of industrial environments around the world. They must often provide uncompromising performance in harsh conditions, from high temperat...
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Back-Pressure Regulators: How They Work & Tips for 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...