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North Sea Gas Field Operations Success
Total System Expertise: How Swagelok Delivered Assurance to a North Sea Gas Field The Challenge: Developing a High-Stakes North Sea Gas Asset When a large European oil and gas operator based in the UK made the decision to develop a gas condensate field in the North Sea, expectations were high. Sit...
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Choosing a Regulator in Five Steps
Choosing a Regulator Pressure regulators play a crucial role in many industrial fluid and instrumentation systems, helping to maintain or control desired pressure andflow in response to system changes. For these reasons, it is important to select and install pressure regulators that can meet the sp...
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Global Construction Grab Sampling
Large-Scale Industrial Construction: How to Optimize Grab Sample Quality, Safety, and Profitability Managing the construction of large-scale facilities, such as chemical refineries, wastewater treatment plants, manufacturing sites, and oil and gas platforms, is inherently difficult. Thousands of pe...
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Supporting Green Hydrogen Production and Storage
Small Molecule, Big Impact: How Everfuel is Paving the Way for Green Hydrogen Production Hydrogen is the next great frontier in energy. It is plentiful, easy to extract, and when used as a fuel, it produces no CO 2 emissions. It holds tremendous promise as a clean, efficient source of power for a w...
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What is a Pressure Relief Valve: Purpose & Why it's Essential
How to Enhance Chemical Plant Safety With Relief Valves Shaji Arumpanayil, Product Manager, Swagelok Modern fluid systems in chemical plants and refineries can be vast, with countless feet of small-bore tubing branching in various directions to accomplish several important functions. With this co...
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What to Look for In Hydrogen Valves
High-Performance Hydrogen Valves: What to Look for When Making a Selection Chuck Hayes, Principal Applications Engineer for Clean Energy, Swagelok Hydrogen fuel is growing quickly as a mobility solution. It has proven itself safe, cost-effective, practical, and sustainable. In short: it’s the idea...
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How Scania Stays at the Forefront of CNG Bus, Refueling Station Technology
How Scania Stays at the Forefront of CNG Bus, Refueling Station Technology The streets of Madrid, Spain, are becoming quieter and cleaner—partially in thanks to Scania, a major vehicle manufacturer that provides city buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) to EMT Madrid, the biggest transpor...
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How to Optimize Semiconductor ALD Processes
How the Right Valve Can Improve Accuracy and Consistency in Your ALD Process The challenge of maximizing throughput combined with the increasingly complex and precise processes needed to manufacture the latest microchip is driving semiconductor manufacturers to pursue tighter and tighter process c...
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Refinery Safety Depends on Well-Trained Employees
Refinery System Safety Depends on Well-Trained, Empowered Employees Ken Backus, Field Engineer High-octane gasoline, plastics and many other everyday necessities are the result of complex processes that take place inside petrochemical plants and refining facilities. Those processes utilize a varie...
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Why Haven’t Sampling Systems Improved— Three Main Reasons
Why Haven’t Sampling Systems Improved — Three Main Reasons Mike Frost Over the last few decades, process analyzers have become even more reliable while sampling systems have not. Many process analyzer sampling systems are not fulfilling their intended purpose of delivering an uncontaminated, repre...