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Improving Operations with JIP33 Gas Fitting Standards
How the JIP33 Tube Fitting Specification Improves Oil and Gas Operations Logan Boatright, Senior Global Account Manager, Swagelok Imagine this: A major oil and gas operator was commissioning a topside module with more than 2,000 small-bore tube fitting connections. They selected a supplier that ...
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Seven Tips for Effective Plant Turnarounds
Seven Tips for More Effective, Efficient Plant Turnarounds Mike Aughenbaugh, Associate Target Market Manager, Swagelok, and Steven Robertson, Downstream Sales Manager, Swagelok Southeast Texas Plant turnaround is a major undertaking for chemical plants and refineries around the world. These comple...
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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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Refinery Safety Depends on Well-Trained Employees
Refinery System Safety Depends on Well-Trained, Empowered Employees Ken Backus, Field Engineer High-octane gasoline, plastics and many other everyday necessities are the result of complex processes that take place inside petrochemical plants and refining facilities. Those processes utilize a varie...
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Is Hydrogen Fuel Expensive?
Understanding the Cost of Hydrogen Fuel Chuck Hayes, Global Technical Lead, Swagelok Cost is one of the most important factors affecting whether new technology—especially hydrogen fuel—is adopted at scale. When evaluating hydrogen fuel cost, decision-makers must consider not just price per unit,...
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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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Back-Pressure Regulators: How They Work & Tips for Engineers
Back-Pressure Regulator Set Up for Sampling Systems: Engineer Guidance David Rodriguez, Product Manager Back-pressure regulators play an important role in maintaining inlet pressure (upstream pressure) and protecting sensitive equipment in sampling systems used in many industrial facilities. To ma...
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Vapor Pressure Curves: Phase Diagrams for Vaporization
Phase Diagrams for Vapor Pressure Curves While phase diagrams are primarily used by chemists in laboratory environments, these tools are astonishingly useful for mechanical engineers and plant managers tasked with sample analysis. In some analytical systems, a liquid sample must be converted to gas...
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Valve Servicing and Maintenance Guide
Best Practices for Fluid System Valve Servicing and Maintenance Valves are some of the most important components of industrial fluid systems, responsible for controlling and maintaining optimal levels of flow. Their reliable functionality is critically important to operational efficiency, profitabi...
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What Are the Different Types of Tube Fittings?
Your Guide to Choosing the Right Small-Bore Tube Fittings for Your Application Reliable small-bore fluid systems should be designed and constructed with high-quality components—and one of the most important is the small-bore fitting . Used at critical connection points, fittings should provide leak...
