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Valve Servicing and Maintenance Guide
Best Practices for Fluid System Valve Servicing and Maintenance Valves are some of the most important components of industrial fluid systems, responsible for controlling and maintaining optimal levels of flow. Their reliable functionality is critically important to operational efficiency, profitabi...
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A Practical Guide to Gas Sampling Systems and Methods
A Practical Guide to Gas Sampling Methods Matt Dixon , Senior Principal Design Engineer, Swagelok Optimizing your chemical processing costs and maintaining high-quality product outputs require regular capture of representative process fluids for laboratory analysis. Grab sampling —also called spo...
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What Are the Different Types of Tube Fittings?
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...
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What is a Valve: Types of Valves & Functions Explained
Industrial Valves 101: Basic Functions and Types of Valves Small-bore fluid systems play an important role in keeping industrial companies operating productively around the world, and valves play an important role in the function of these systems. There are many types of valves that control f...
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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...
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Seven Tips for Effective Plant Turnarounds
Seven Tips for More Effective, Efficient Plant Turnarounds Mike Aughenbaugh, Associate Target Market Manager, Swagelok, and Steven Robertson, Downstream Sales Manager, Swagelok Southeast Texas Plant turnaround is a major undertaking for chemical plants and refineries around the world. These comple...
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Thermal Controls to Optimize Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing
How to Optimize Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing Yield With Proper Thermal Control Brian Rudary, Applications Solutions Engineering Lead, Swagelok, and Doug Nordstrom, Product Manager, Swagelok Semiconductor wafer manufacturing grows more challenging by the day. As global demand for chips skyro...
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Empa is Driving Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Development
Exploring New Frontiers: How Empa is Driving Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Development The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) conducts advanced research every day, much of it devoted to the decarbonization of the Swiss economy. Empa’s “move” mobility demonstrator is...
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Small-Bore Fittings: Learn All the Different Thread Types
An Introduction to Fittings: Identifying Thread Size and Pitch The health of your industrial fluid systems relies on every component working together to transport your process fluid to its destination. Your facility’s safety and productivity depend on leak-free connections between your components—a...
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Fitting Training: How to Install Tube Fittings
Tube Fitting Installation: Everything You Need to Know Reliable industrial fluid systems are essential for safety, efficiency, and profitability in your plant—and their ability to operate dependably relies on many factors. Some of the most important include proper tube and tube fitting installation...