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Saving Millions of Dollars by Reducing Gasoline Blending Costs For refiners of finished gasoline and diesel fuels, ensuring that the final product meets anticipated specifications is critical. The gasoline blending process, where fuels are blended with octane to meet differing performance tiers, pl...

What to Consider During Valve Selection: An Industrial Valve Selection Guide Valve selection is an important part of proper design and maintenance practices for industrial, piping, and instrumentation systems. Without the right valve design for a specific application, operators could face improper ...

Your Guide to Choosing the Right Small-Bore Tube Fittings for Your Application Reliable small-bore fluid systems should be designed and constructed with high-quality components—and one of the most important is the small-bore fitting . Used at critical connection points, fittings should provide leak...

How to Position Nozzles in Your Liquid & Natural Gas Sampling System In a liquid or gas sampling system, a nozzle is used at the tap location to supply the sample to the analyzer. Proper placement, position and orientation of this nozzle is crucial to ensure timely, accurate analytical measurements...

Swagelok Field Engineer Services: Improving Analytical Instrumentation Mike Frost, Field Engineer Worldwide, plants and facilities across every industry are facing the same pressures—decreasing manpower, increasing safety regulations, and an overall loss of fluid system knowledge. The ever-widenin...

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, ...

Ensuring Reliable Deepwater Well Operations with Custom Solutions Kevin Gravouia, Upstream & Construction Sales Manager, Swagelok Louisiana Some of the highest-stakes offshore oil and gas activity takes place in the Gulf of Mexico, where world-leading oil extraction companies wrestle with some of ...

How Engineering Assistance Can Help Keep Semiconductor Production Humming: A Q&A With Global Field Engineering Manager Greg Mlynar With the need for shorter supply chains and material sourcing, availability and shipping resolutions, and the rapid rate at which new fabs are being constructed, chip m...

Tackling Global Construction Complexity for a Successful Megaproject Major petrochemical plant construction projects often involve the coordination of dozens of global vendors, typically over the course of several years of careful planning, engineering, and development. Once in commission, the stak...

Four Answers on Material Selection for Sour Oil and Gas Fields As oil and gas producers seek to meet the world’s energy needs and expand their revenue streams, there has been a collective move toward tapping unconventional resource reserves at greater depths and further distances offshore. Here, le...