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Eagle Scout Recipients Benefit from Swagelok’s Engineer for a Day Program
Eagle Scouts Participate in Swagelok’s Immersive Engineer for a Day Program Chuck Hayes Earning the Eagle Scout rank is counted among a scout’s most treasured achievements. It is the highest advancement in scouting, and a significant milestone for youth that only 4% of scouts obtain after a length...
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Improve Semiconductor Yield with Optimized Alloys
Improving Semiconductor Fabrication Yields with Optimized Materials Masroor Malik, Semiconductor Market Manager, Swagelok, and Shelly Tang, Lead Principal Metallurgical Engineer, Swagelok Rapid innovation is a necessity in the highly competitive semiconductor landscape. Much of the modern world de...
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How to Safely Sample High-Viscosity Fluids in Refineries
How to Safely Sample High-Viscosity Fluids in Refineries Matt Dixon Modern refineries are tasked with maximizing value from the entirety of their production processes. Capturing that full value requires optimizing all products and byproducts that result from the refining process. Bitumen is one o...
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Sample Cylinder Maintenance FAQ: What You Should Know
FAQ: What You Should Know About Sample Cylinder Maintenance Tristian McCallion, custom solutions manager, Swagelok Edmonton In any industrial environment where grab sampling is a part of regular operations, keeping your sample cylinders in safe working condition is a necessity. Damaged or malfunct...
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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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What is Grab Sampling
Grab sampling… …also known as spot sampling, laboratory sampling, field sampling, or sometimes just sampling—involves the collection of a sample fluid in apipeline, tank, or system. The sample is then analyzed to help operators validate process conditions, evaluate products for environmental emissi...
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2020 Blogs in Review
2020 In Review: What You Wanted to Know in an Unprecedented Year Have you ever wondered how we come up with topics for Swagelok Reference Point each week? The formula is simple: Our blogs are based on the conversations our global team has with customers every day. In 2020—an unprecedented year by ...
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10 Tips to Improve Chemical Sampling Systems
10 Tips to Improve Chemical Sampling Systems Managing an analytical instrumentation operation is no small feat. Whether you design, construct, operate, or maintain a chemical sampling system, receiving consistent, reliable results can be a struggle for even the most seasoned engineers and technicia...
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Field Engineering Spotlight: Alex Chu, Engineering Manager, Swagelok Bristol
Field Engineering Spotlight: Alex Chu, Engineering Manager, Swagelok Bristol Swagelok Reference Point is highlighting its field engineering services—our global, boots-on-the-ground team of engineering experts who are tasked with solving our customers’ toughest challenges. Today, we sit down with En...
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The 5 Most Common Revelations Experienced in Process Analyzer System Training: A 50 Year Retrospective
The 5 Most Common Revelations Experienced in Process Analyzer System Training Tony Waters, Sampling System Expert, Instructor A process analyzer sampling system is one of the most challenging systems within your plant. Not only is it challenging to design, it’s also challenging to operate accurate...