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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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How to Detect and Protect Against Pressure Gauge Failure
How Can You Tell A Gauge Is Broken or May Fail? Dave Ross, Senior Technical Service Engineer Pressure gauges seem small but are a critical part of systems across industries. The visual indication of system pressure they provide lets you know whether everything is operating within the desired range...
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Optimize These Applications for More Profitable Semiconductor Fabs
Three Fluid System Focus Areas for More Profitable Fab Operations The global semiconductor market continues to experience dramatic growth. As of February 2023, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported global semiconductor industry sales totaling $573.5 billion in 2022, the highest-eve...
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How to Test a Regulator to Verify Performance
Why Safe Industrial Pressure Regulator Performance Requires Rigorous Testing Back-pressure regulators and pressure-reducing regulators are used in a wide variety of industrial environments around the world. They must often provide uncompromising performance in harsh conditions, from high temperatur...
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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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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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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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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...