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What to Consider During Valve Selection: An Industrial Valve Selection Guide Valve selection is an important part of proper design and maintenance practices for industrial, piping, and instrumentation systems. Without the right valve design for a specific application, operators could face improper ...

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 ...

A Practical Guide to Gas Sampling Methods 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 called spo...

How to Position Nozzles in Your Liquid & Natural Gas Sampling System In a liquid or gas sampling system, a nozzle is used at the tap location to supply the sample to the analyzer. Proper placement, position and orientation of this nozzle is crucial to ensure timely, accurate analytical measurements...

Small Changes to Hose Installation Practices Can Mean Big Semiconductor Manufacturing Savings Maintaining precise temperature control in semiconductor manufacturing processes is crucial. The chemical reactions that take place during atomic layer deposition (ALD), atomic layer etch (ALE), and other ...

The Questions We Answered in Year One of "Ask Swagelok." This past year, we were excited to introduce a new video series called “Ask Swagelok,” where Swagelok experts answer key questions and offer insights into all things fluid systems design. To date, we have published five different conversation...

How to Reduce Your Maintenance Spend by Improving Gas Distribution Mark Welch, Regional Field Engineer, Swagelok London For a maintenance technician, servicing a gas pressure control panel can often be like solving a puzzle. Confusing or unintuitive tube  or pipe layouts may block easy access to ...

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...

Learn More About: Clean Energy Industry Certifications Clean Energy Products You Can Trust Swagelok maintains broad testing and approvals for use in hydrogen and CNG transportation applications across our product portfolio. We can help you achieve:  Safe storage and transfer of hyd...

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...