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Your Checklist for Oil and Gas Safety
Your Industrial Fluid System Safety Checklist Mike Frost, Regional Area Manager, Field Engineering (Asia-Pacific) Industrial fluid systems are responsible for transporting high-pressure, high-temperature liquids and gases throughout plants in numerous industries. Optimizing the performance of thes...
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3 Reasons to Audit Your Offshore Fluid System
3 Reasons to Audit Your Offshore Fluid System Mark Garvey, Field Engineer, Swagelok Scotland “Is that really the state of my rig?” If you are the operator of an offshore hydrocarbon platform, this is a phrase you do not want to find yourself saying. But in my work as a field engineer for Swagelo...
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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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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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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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Specifying High Performance CNG/LNG Fittings
What to Look for When Specifying CNG/LNG Tube Fittings Chuck Hayes, Lead New Product Development Engineer Vehicle manufacturers around the world are increasingly pursuing compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquified natural gas (LNG) as viable clean fuel options to comply with strict emissions requi...
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Swagelok & HOERBIGER Collaborate to Reduce NOx Emissions on Legacy Engines
Swagelok Custom Solutions Helps HOERBIGER Reduce CO, NOx Emissions on Legacy Engines by 80 Percent Trey Sinkfield, Field Engineering Manager, Swagelok Southeast Texas After multiple attempts to work with local machine shops, HOERBIGER Engineering Services (HES) turned to Swagelok for help. The rel...