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How Mechanical Grip Fittings Can Optimize Oil and Gas Assets
Swagelok ® FK Series Fittings Versus Cone and Thread Fittings: Understanding the Differences and Benefits Doug Nordstrom Cone and thread fittings have been a reliable choice for a variety of oil and gas applications for years. When used with special antivibration glands and installed by knowledgea...
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Why a Hydrogen Compressors Manufacturer Depends on High-Quality Fittings
Q&A: PDC Machines Discusses How It Delivers Mission-Critical Hydrogen The market for hydrogen mobility continues to grow, and that means original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must continue innovating to meet escalating customer demands. To compete effectively in this market, dependable quality, ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Pressure Regulators
Everything You Need to Know About Pressure Regulators Pressure regulators are important parts of industrial fluid and analytical instrumentation systems. These critical components help to maintain desired system pressure and flow in response to operational system changes. For any fluid system techn...
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High-Purity Face Seal Fittings Explained
Why Vacuum Face Seal Fittings are Ideal for High Purity Semiconductor Applications Masroor Malik, Semiconductor Market Manager, Swagelok Given the semiconductor industry’s never-ending pursuit of the smaller and smaller process nodes necessary to produce more powerful chips, maintaining process c...
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How to Reduce Costs and Improve Safety with a Better Gas Distribution System Design
Q&A: How to Reduce Costs and Improve Safety with More-Efficient Gas Distribution Gas distribution systems are critical to the efficient operation of refineries, research facilities, laboratories, and other industrial sites. If you operate one of these facilities, however, gas distribution and deliv...
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Sample Cylinder Maintenance FAQ: What You Should Know
FAQ: What You Should Know About Sample Cylinder Maintenance Tristian McCallion, custom solutions manager, Swagelok Edmonton In any industrial environment where grab sampling is a part of regular operations, keeping your sample cylinders in safe working condition is a necessity. Damaged or malfunct...
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Our Most Popular Blogs in 2021
Your Most Pressing Questions Answered: 2021 in Review From semiconductor fabs to offshore oil and gas platforms to research laboratories, our customers do business in a variety of high-stakes environments. But sometimes, these diverse industries face common challenges. These shared challenges are ...
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Reducing Fluid System Leaks in Your Facility
Reducing Costly Fluid System Leaks and Emissions Sean Hunsicker, Business Development Manager - Global Sales It’s easy to become accustomed to certain sounds, sights, and other ambient environmental conditions of a chemical processing, oil and gas, or other industrial process facility. Walking acr...
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Analyzing Your Sampling Needs
Grab Sampling vs. Online Analyzers: Which is Right for You? Sampling is a necessity for all kinds of industrial facilities—and there are two main options of how operators can effectively do it. The traditional method of grab sampling —also called spot sampling, field sampling, or just sampling—has...
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Semiconductor Manufacturing: Why Fast Support Matters
How Local Support Can Reduce Costs for Semiconductor Fabricators Consider a potentially grim scenario for any semiconductor fabricator: a pneumatic valve failure. While it might sound mundane to an outsider, this valve helps enable the supply of critical chemistry to an important tool that is expec...