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How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical Instrumentation System
How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical System Mike Strobel, Field Engineering Supervisor Process measurements are instantaneous, but analyzer responses never are. From the tap to the analyzer, there is always a time delay. Unfortunately, this delay is often underestimated or ...
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4 Areas to Inspect When Measuring Time Delay in Sampling Systems
4 Areas to Inspect When Measuring Time Delay in Sampling Systems In a process analyzer sampling system, there is always a delay between the moment you grab the sample and the time you obtain a reading. Time delay is cumulative, accounting for the total amount of time it takes for a sample to trave...
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Lightfoot Defence Case Study
Case Study: Swagelok Drives Fluid System Innovation for Lightfoot Defence About the Customer With over 130 years in the refrigeration and air conditioning fields, Lightfoot Defence is the brand of choice for reliable, quality products and services in the military and commercial sectors. Lightfoot ...
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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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Best Practices for Safe Gas Sampling
Best Practices for Sampling Gases and Volatile Liquids Matt Dixon, Senior Principal Design Engineer, Swagelok Optimizing your chemical processing costs and maintaining high-quality product outputs require regular capture of representative process fluids for laboratory analysis. Grab sampling —also...
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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...