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North Sea Gas Field Operations Success
Total System Expertise: How Swagelok Delivered Assurance to a North Sea Gas Field The Challenge: Developing a High-Stakes North Sea Gas Asset When a large European oil and gas operator based in the UK made the decision to develop a gas condensate field in the North Sea, expectations were high. Sit...
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Case Study: Powering Hydrogen Mobility with Fuel Cell Systems
Enabling Hydrogen Mobility: Spectronik’s Journey to Reliable Fuel Cell Innovation In the rapidly evolving world of clean energy and urban mobility, Spectronik has established itself as a trailblazer. With a mission to develop and deploy hydrogen fuel cell systems for light-duty vehicles and autonom...
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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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How Two Major Refineries Solved Gasoline Blending Challenges
Saving Millions of Dollars by Reducing Gasoline Blending Costs For refiners of finished gasoline and diesel fuels, ensuring that the final product meets anticipated specifications is critical. The gasoline blending process, where fuels are blended with octane to meet differing performance tiers, pl...
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How Proper Hose Installation Can Reduce Semiconductor Fab Costs
Small Changes to Hose Installation Practices Can Mean Big Semiconductor Manufacturing Savings Maintaining precise temperature control in semiconductor manufacturing processes is crucial. The chemical reactions that take place during atomic layer deposition (ALD), atomic layer etch (ALE), and other ...
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Top 5 Hydrogen Infrastructure Best Practices
The Top 5 Best Practices for Designing Hydrogen Fluid Systems Hydrogen is one of the world’s most promising sources of clean and sustainable energy and power . From transportation and material handling to stationary, portable, and emergency backup power, it’s useful in a range of applications—and i...
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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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Know Your Process Analyzers: Raman Analyzers
Know Your Analyzer Types: Raman Analyzers Mike Strobel, Business Development Manager, Swagelok Know Your Analyzer Raman Analyzer Coming Soon... Photometric IR & UV Analyzers Process Density Analyzers Process Oxygen Analyzers Process Moisture Analyzers Accurate process analysis is esse...
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Control Costs and Improve Safety in Gas Delivery Systems
How to Control Costs and Improve Safety in Your Gas Distribution Systems Jeff DeWitt, Applications Engineer, Gas Distribution Systems Engineer Many laboratories, test centers, and industrial sites rely on the safe and continuous supply of primary and specialty gases to support critical processes...
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Common Water Pressure Regulator Problems and Troubleshooting
How to Troubleshoot Common Regulator Problems Industrial fluid system processes rely on precise fluid temperature, flow, and pressure settings to operate as intended. Many key components, including pressure regulators (or pressure-reducing valves), are critical in maintaining your necessary process...