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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ensuring Reliable Deepwater Well Operations with Custom Solutions Kevin Gravouia, Upstream & Construction Sales Manager, Swagelok Louisiana Some of the highest-stakes offshore oil and gas activity takes place in the Gulf of Mexico, where world-leading oil extraction companies wrestle with some of ...

Common Causes and Costs of Fluid System Leaks Fluid system leaks are a common occurrence in most plants. Because you’re charged with maintaining your plant’s safety and profitability, even the smallest leak can present an issue. That’s why it’s helpful to understand how and why leaks occur, how to ...

Collaborative Success: How Swagelok Harnessed Global Expertise to Deliver a Turnkey FPSO Rectification The Challenge: Uncovering Critical Corrosion Risk Ahead of Dry Dock Off the west coast of Australia, on a mature floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, a Swagelok customer unco...

Why Sampling at the Nozzle Matters for Reliable, Standards-Compliant Hydrogen Systems As the global energy landscape shifts toward cleaner and more sustainable solutions, hydrogen has become a pivotal fuel for decarbonizing transportation, industry, and power generation. Among its most promising a...