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How Training Can Minimize Risk on Oil and Gas Platforms
How Training Can Minimize Risk on Oil and Gas Platforms Bill Dickie, Director of Technical Services, Swagelok Scotland Health and safety are paramount in the oil and gas industry, and operators in my territory know this only too well. The North Sea, home to significant oil and gas reserves, has b...
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What is a Pressure Relief Valve: Purpose & Why it's Essential
How to Enhance Chemical Plant Safety With Relief Valves Shaji Arumpanayil, Product Manager, Swagelok Modern fluid systems in chemical plants and refineries can be vast, with countless feet of small-bore tubing branching in various directions to accomplish several important functions. With this co...
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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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API 682: Building Better Mechanical Seal Support Systems
API 682 and You: Building Better Mechanical Seal Support Systems Sean Hunsicker, Market Manager, Chemical & Refining Market Mechanical seals became the dominant sealing technology in refineries and chemical plants in the 1980s, causing the American Petroleum Institute (API) to establish a committe...
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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...
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How to Flatten a Regulator Flow Curve to Reduce Droop
How to Flatten a Regulator Flow Curve to Reduce Droop Jon Kestner Consistent pressure control is essential to the safe operation of industrial fluid systems. Maintaining a reliable downstream pressure with a regulator can help minimize flow rate changes, especially in a high-flow system. However, ...
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IOGP Specification Update for Small-Bore Fittings
How the Latest IOGP Small-Bore Tubing and Fittings Specification Enhances Safety for Oil and Gas Producers Safety is the top priority for many oil and gas producers around the world—so when the industry makes a significant move toward safer fluid system operation, everyone should take notice. In M...