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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 life...
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3 Steps to Improve Hose Safety & Lower Plant Costs
3 Steps to Improve Hose Safety & Lower Plant Costs Doug Nordstrom, Senior Product Manager, Hose Product Group Industrial hoses often do not get the attention they deserve. Most manufacturing facilities have specifications and policies concerning tubing, fittings, and valves on pressure-containing ...
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How to Position Nozzles in Your Liquid & Natural Gas Sampling System
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...
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Pitting Corrosion vs. Crevice Corrosion in Stainless Steel
How to Recognize and Prevent Pitting Corrosion and Crevice Corrosion Buddy Damm , Senior Scientist, Swagelok Corrosion—the deterioration of engineered materials by chemical interaction with their environment—is an extraordinarily costly problem. The global cost of corrosion is estimated at approxi...