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What Are Fugitive Emissions & How to Avoid Leaks
Exploring Effective Strategies to Decarbonize and Cut Fugitive Emissions Mike Aughenbaugh, Associate Target Market Manager, Swagelok A confluence of factors is driving change throughout the oil and gas industries. Widespread decarbonization efforts and consent decrees from the U.S. Environmental...
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How to Avoid Fluid System Leaks
Why System Performance Depends on Proper Tube Preparation Quality tubing and highly engineered fittings form some of the most critical connections in any refinery. A number of variables must be considered when ensuring each of these connections is optimal—material type, tube size, wall thickness, ...
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Calculating the ROI of Process Analyzer Technology
Calculating the ROI of a Process Analyzer It’s no secret that process analyzers are more expensive than other measuring devices within your sampling system. Some organizations and procurement managers require justification for such expensive equipment in the form of a return-on-investment (ROI) ana...
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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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Identifying Cost Savings in Utility Gas Systems
Petrochemical Producer Finds Significant Cost Savings in Utility Gas Systems Mark Tipton, Field Services Champion, Swagelok Texas Mid-Coast After the completion of a major acquisition, one of the world’s largest petrochemical producers sought to identify opportunities to reduce production costs at...
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Q&A: Semiconductor Manufacturing Past, Present, and Future
Semiconductor Manufacturing Past, Present, and Future: A Q&A with Industry Consultant Carl White Moore’s Law , a concept first put forth by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in 1965, predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (or microchip) will need to double every two years ...
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Tips to Maintaining a Representative Sample in an Analytical Instrumentation System
Tips to Maintaining a Representative Sample in an Analytical Instrumentation System The objective of an analytical instrumentation (AI) system is to provide a timely analytical result that is representative of the fluid in the process line at the time the sample was taken. If the sample is altered ...
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Steam Heat Exchangers and Tracing Systems: Best Practices for Design Engineers
Steam Heat Exchangers and Tracing Systems: Best Practices for Design Engineers Alex Chu, Industrial Steam System SME, Swagelok Field Engineering Designing a proper steam heat exchanger or steam heat tracing system first requires a full understanding of the operational characteristics where the sys...
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How an Industrial Hose Maintenance Plan Could Save Your Plant Thousands
How an Industrial Hose Maintenance Plan Could Save Your Plant Thousands of Dollars Alice Chin A common concern among many plant managers and engineers is knowing the proper time to replace industrial hoses . This concern comes with good reason. Waiting too long to replace a hose that needs attenti...
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What Industrial Trends are Affecting Fluid System Operators?
How to Adjust to Global Trends Affecting the Clean Energy, Semiconductor, Oil and Gas, and Chemicals Industries Every day, global megatrends affect our businesses—whether we realize it or not. Staying aware of those trends and their potential impacts can help us make smarter decisions, regardless o...