Every day, Swagelok Company and our sales and service centers work directly with customers to fulfill their fluid system needs. Learn more about our work to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions in these stories from the field.
Swagelok Provides Imtech with MPC Solutions
Imtech announced in May 2012 that Swagelok will assist the company in the development of Imtech's modular analyzer solutions, using MPC. The standardizations will provide increased flexibility and reduced footprint. The Imtech announcement.
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Swagelok Company’s value-added solutions help Imtech save time, money and boost efficiency
Supply chain management is about building relationships between organisations. It is about getting the right products to the right place at the right time and at the right price. According to Johan La Grand, Senior Buyer at Imtech Analyser Systems in Goes, The Netherlands, a good customer-supplier relationship creates added value. Find out how.
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The Contribution of Swagelok’s Quality and Supporting System in the Development of Highly Sensitive Gas Analysis Systems
At the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, researchers rely on Swagelok products in high-temperature, vacuum environments. In this study, learn how Swagelok products are used in technologies that can gather, measure, and analyze gas components emitted from human breath or from the surface of vegetables. Download the PDF.
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Preventing Pitting and Crevice Corrosion
Stainless steel tubing on oil and gas platforms is regularly employed in process instrumentation and sensing, as well as chemical inhibition, hydraulic lines, impulse lines, and utility applications, over a wide range of temperature, flow and pressure conditions. Unfortunately, all over the globe, including the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, the Gulf of Guinea, the China Sea, the Caribbean and so on, corrosion of 316 stainless steel tubing has been observed. What can be done about this? This article, presented in World Oil, explores this common phenomenon. Download PDF.
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FKB Series Ball Valves Enhance Chemical Injection Skids
Learn how Swagelok helped AGI Packaged Pump Systems overcome some of the challenges of building chemical injection skids with the FKB series medium-pressure ball valve. Download PDF.
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Design of an ALD Reactor for Hydrogen Sulfide Compatibility
Explore the design, build and testing of a atomic layer deposition (ALD) reactor for use with hydrogen sulfide in this paper by Stanford University researchers with assistance from Swagelok Company. Download PDF.
Copyright 2010 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in the Review of Scientific Instruments (Vol.81, Issue 4) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/81/4/htmltoc.
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Watching Over a Goldmine of Nobel Prizes in Physics
Professor Kazuhiro Tanaka, Doctor of Science, smiles like a proud parent as he describes the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) as “only just being at its infancy. It is like a newborn baby, and now it is our job to help it grow.” Home to one of the world’s most powerful proton accelerators, coupled with an experimental laboratory used for cutting-edge proton beam research, J-PARC is a hub for the advancement of 21st century science and technology research. To keep it up and running, he relies on Nippon Swagelok FST and Swagelok® products. Download details now.
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Cambridge NanoTech Inc.
Not One Failure Yet: Cambridge NanoTech Finds Dependability In Swagelok® ALD Valve When Cambridge NanoTech Inc. first started manufacturing atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems in 2003, the company was experiencing downtime due to underperforming valves. To extend the life of Cambridge NanoTech’s ALD gas delivery assemblies, the company tried the Swagelok® ALD valve—with great success. Read the full story here.
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Swagelok’s Attention to Detail Energizes UNI-SOLAR®
When Energy Conversion Devices, manufacturer of UNI-SOLAR® flexible solar modules, needed to expand to meet increased demand for its product, the company require more of Swagelok than just components. Read the full story of how our attention to detail in building complete assemblies made a difference in delivery of the UNI-SOLAR product.
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Swagelok Ltd. and Swagelok Bristol Honored by Royal Navy
When the HMS Ramsey required emergency repairs to its high-pressure air system, Britain’s Royal Navy turned to Swagelok. Quick response and expert technical recommendations from the Swagelok team meant smooth sailing in just over two weeks for the vessel. Read the full story here.
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Renewable Energy Starts at Home
Imagine a house that gets all of its energy for heating, cooling, and cooking from batteries that never require changing – batteries as reliable as the sun. That’s the way Mike Strizki describes the system he uses at his home in Hopewell, N.J. Download details now.
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chambers Rely on Swagelok Products
Reliability and versatility are key reasons that one customer chooses Swagelok® products for his hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) units. Find out about the role of Swagelok tube fittings in this mobile HBOT unit case study.
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Swagelok® Fluid System Components Part of Urban Heat Island Relief
The city of Tokyo is experimenting with Dry Mist, a system for cooling rising temperatures by covering the city with a fog of ultra-fine water droplets that absorb heat. Swagelok is there to provide the tubing and fittings for the piping system used to generate Dry Mist. Download details on this cool project.
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Reliable, Portable Units Designed to Shelter Miners from Disaster
Fresh Air Bay (FAB) refuge shelters can provide up to 96 hours of shelter for miners during a disaster. Manufactured by Pillar Innovations LLC and sold by Strata Products Inc., FABs’ vital air systems are supported by Swagelok components.
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Swagelok Helps Bring Power to the People
If you want to see something truly impressive, just look toward central China where you will have little trouble seeing the massive Three Gorges Dam. Swagelok is there already, helping to provide key operational data. Read more now.
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Breathing Easier – Under Water and On Land
At Brownie’s Third Lung, Robert Carmichael’s primary goal is providing safe and easy diving solutions for customers. And when your product provides the air necessary to scuba, having reliable, leak-tight connections are critical. Learn how Swagelok helped Carmichael realize his goal in this case history.
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Leak-Tight Fluid Systems Enable Safe Underwater Discovery
A longtime leader in maritime and shipbuilding applications, Swagelok helps ensure safe underwater exploration during the production of Academy Award-winning director James Cameron’s film ”Aliens of the Deep.” Learn more here.
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