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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...
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What is a Block Valve and How Does It Isolate Fluid Systems?
How to Isolate a Fluid System with a Block Valve What is the Function of a Block Valve? A block valve isolates a specific section of a fluid system to prevent flow and pressure from reaching downstream components. This is important because a single line’s pressure or flow inside represents a hazard ...
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How Fluid Systems Impact the Cost of Semiconductor Fabs
Why High-Performing Fluid Systems Matter in New Semiconductor Fab Construction Masroor Malik, Lead Solutions Specialist, Semiconductor When building a new semiconductor fabrication facility (or “fab”), there are many considerations, including speed to market, material and installation standardizat...
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Optimizing Component Selection for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
Optimizing Component Selection for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Chuck Hayes, Principal Engineer Around the world, significant investment is being made in hydrogen mobility and the infrastructure that makes it possible. Why? As vehicle manufacturers seek to drive higher and higher efficiency and cu...
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The 5 Most Common Revelations Experienced in Process Analyzer System Training: A 50 Year Retrospective
The 5 Most Common Revelations Experienced in Process Analyzer System Training Tony Waters, Sampling System Expert, Instructor A process analyzer sampling system is one of the most challenging systems within your plant. Not only is it challenging to design, it’s also challenging to operate accurate...
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Hose Connector Types & Use Cases
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...
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How to Avoid FPSO Vessel Fluid System Construction Issues
Tackling the Complexities of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Construction Tommy Jamail, Senior Regional Construction Manager, Asia Pacific Barry Rowe-Platts, Technical Lead, Engineering Services As members of the oil and gas industry have sought to maintain profitable upstream op...
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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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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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The Right Fittings for Green Hydrogen Production Success
How a Green Hydrogen Production OEM Elevated Electrolyzer Reliability with Swagelok In recent years, great strides have been made in the development of hydrogen as an energy carrier. The major remaining challenges relate to safe, efficient green hydrogen production, processing, and distribution. At...