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Tips for Choosing the Right Hose Connection Doug Nordstrom, Senior Product Manager Industrial hoses play critical roles in facilities across the globe—but they often come with little guidance on useful best practices from the manufacturer. Hose  selection , installation, inspection, and maintenanc...

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...

Fluid System Filters Explained: Why They’re Critical for Reliable Operations Contaminants can wreak havoc on industrial fluid systems. Unwanted particles can damage critical components, interfere with accurate sampling and analyzing, throw products off-spec, and cause other downstream problems. ...

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 ...

Controlling Costs and Reducing Errors in Liquid Grab Sampling Grab sampling plays a critical role in accurate, profitable industrial processes. The practice can help validate process conditions, ensure end products are up to specification, and provide the information necessary to evaluate environme...

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...

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...

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...

Choosing the Right Type of Pressure Regulator for Your Application If you manage an industrial fluid system, you know that maintaining precise process conditions is often an operational imperative. Pressure represents one of your most important conditions, and maintaining desired pressure levels re...

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...