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Analytical Instrumentation
Managing Supply Pressure Effect (SPE) in a Regulator
Supply pressure effect, also known as dependency, is an inverse relationship between inlet and outlet pressure variables within a regulator. Learn how to manage this phenomenon in your pressure regulators with tips from Swagelok.
How to Flatten a Regulator Flow Curve to Reduce Droop
Droop is an issue for every pressure-reducing regulator. Learn how to minimize droop and flatten regulator flow curves with various dome loaded regulator configurations explained by Jon Kestner.
How to Select the Right Sample Preconditioning Module
When selecting a sample preconditioning module for your sampling system, there are several factors to keep in mind to ensure sample accuracy & plant safety. Swagelok Product Manager Randy Rieken gives tips on how to choose a proper module.
Swagelok Field Engineer Services: Improving Analytical Instrumentation
Worldwide, industrial facilities are feeling the pressure to increase profits despite the widening manufacturing skills gap. Swagelok field engineers can help remedy your fluid system challenges with training and expert evaluation services.
How to Position Nozzles in Your Liquid & Natural Gas Sampling System
The details can make all the difference in sampling system efficiency. Avoid analysis delays, sample contamination, & inaccurate results in your liquid or gas sampling system by adhering to these nozzle placement best practices from Swagelok analytical instrumentation expert Karim Mahraz.
Back-Pressure Regulator Set-Up: Tips for Sampling System Engineers
Back-pressure regulators can effectively control upstream pressure within a sampling system process line—when set up correctly. Learn how to accurately design and build a process line with a back-pressure regulator.
Using a Phase Diagram for Vapor Pressure Curves
In this article, Swagelok’s Karim Mahraz gives detailed instructions covering how to use a phase diagram for vaporization management. Plant managers and design engineers can use phase diagrams to determine & refine inputs during gas sample analysis.
Why Haven’t Sampling Systems Improved — Three Main Reasons
Over the past 50 years, process analyzers have vastly improved— but sampling systems have not. Luckily, most issues are due to human error & can be corrected with proper training. Learn three reasons why sampling systems fail & solutions for your plant.
Avoiding Classic Liquid and Gas Sampling System Mistakes
Whether you’re working with a gas or a liquid sample, common sampling system mistakes often occur during initial design. Learn how to avoid classic sampling mistakes and get better gas and liquid samples every time with design tips from Swagelok.
Grab Sampling 101: Reducing Plant Costs
Grab sample systems allow for safe, efficient sample captures—validating your product’s chemical composition. Learn how to improve your closed loop system’s reliability while reducing plant costs with basics from the experts at Swagelok.
How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical Instrumentation System
Time delay is often underestimated or misunderstood in analytical systems. One way to mitigate this delay is with a pressure-controlled regulator. Learn how manage your analytical system’s time delay with tips from the experts at Swagelok.
How to Manage Vaporization in Sampling Systems
It’s not easy to vaporize a sample, nor is it always possible. Learn how to better understand the vaporization process in an analytical system and how to manipulate variables— ensuring proper vaporization for an accurate sample.
4 Areas to Inspect When Measuring Time Delay in Sampling Systems
In a process analyzer sampling system, there is always a time delay before you obtain a reading. However, underestimating this time delay can lead to inferior process control. Learn which four areas you should closely inspect to diminish time delays.
Tips to Maintaining a Representative Sample in an Analytical Instrumentation System
Maintaining a representative sample within an analytical instrumentation system can be difficult. Learn how to identify major issues and avoid complications associated with a compromised representative sample from the experts at Swagelok.
How to Calibrate an Analyzer in an Analytical Instrumentation System
Calibration is an important process and an absolute requirement in analytical systems. Care must be taken when performing this process—error can be introduced. Learn how to calibrate your analyzer to ensure an accurate analytical measurement.
Understanding and Measuring Time Delay in an Analytical Instrumentation System
Process measurements are instantaneous, but analyzer responses are not. Time delay in sampling systems is the most common cause of inaccurate results from process analyzers. Learn how to understand and reduce time delay in your analytical systems.
How to Isolate Industrial Fluid Systems with Block Valves
The isolation of industrial fluid system lines prior to maintenance is vital to plant safety. One of the safest ways to isolate a fluid system line is to install two block valves. Learn how to design proper configurations for your system.
Sampling Systems: 8 Common Process Analyzer Accuracy Challenges
Sampling systems expert and veteran industry instructor Tony Waters offers plant managers and design engineers tested ways to identify and resolve 8 common challenges for process analyzer accuracy.
10 Tips to Improve Sampling Systems
Managing an analytical instrumentation operation is no small feat. Receiving consistent results can be a struggle for even the most seasoned engineers. Luckily, there are several simple tips your team can use to improve your sampling system.
Fluid System Training
Four Ways Training and Advisory Services Can Help You Bridge the Skills Gap
Learn how fluid system training and advisory services can help operators bridge a growing skills gap across several industries.
In Case You Missed It: Our Five Most Popular Blog Posts
Which topics drew the most attention this year on the Swagelok Reference Point blog? Find out here, and catch up on any popular posts you missed.
The Three T’s to Achieve an Intricate System of Tubing
Learn how the three T’s to using a hand tube bender can help you achieve an intricate system of tubing with fewer leak points and efficient flow.
How to Avoid System Leaks: The Importance of Proper Tube Preparation
A successful tube fitting depends on many criteria, but one of the most important is proper tube preparation before installation. Learn to avoid costly or dangerous leaks by avoiding damaged, burred, or improperly cut tubes.
Find the Right Tool for the Job: Considerations for Plant Equipment
Which tools and equipment must plant operators and technicians keep on hand at all times? From advanced orbital welding systems to basic tube deburring tools, there are essential tools for every connection, and it pays to be prepared.
Eagle Scout Recipients Benefit from Swagelok’s Engineer for a Day Program
For over a decade, scouts interested in the field of engineering have benefitted from mentoring that includes Swagelok’s immersive Engineer for a Day program. Learn more about how the program helps mold future engineers.
Innovation for the Next Generation of Semiconductor Manufacturing
The next generation of advanced semiconductor manufacturing presents a host of unique considerations. Read how manufacturing innovation can be achieved through greater capacity utilization, component reliability, and process control.
An Introduction to Fittings: Identifying Thread Size and Pitch
Even the most seasoned professionals can experience difficulty identifying threads. Swagelok product manager Andy Hitchcock explains how to identify thread size and pitch on your fittings using a caliper, pitch gauge and thread identification guide.
Process Measurement – Impulse Line Best Practices
It can be difficult to identify issues within your process instrumentation application if you focus solely on the transmitter. Learn how to solve problems within your process instrumentation line with tips and best practices from Swagelok.
Meeting the Needs of Hydrogen Vehicles and Zero-Emissions Technology at ACT Expo
Clean transportation is important, and hydrogen vehicles require reliable infrastructure to become more viable and widespread.
Orbital Welding Training: Tools for the Emerging Welding Workforce
The escalating welder shortage affects tomorrow’s global manufacturing. Automatic orbital welding can help combat the problem, but not without proper training. Learn what to look for in an orbital welding program to prepare your emerging workforce.
Swagelok Enables STEM Project-Based Learning
Through the sponsorship of BLOODHOUND SSC, Swagelok is enabling STEM learning opportunities for Hudson City School District. Discover how Swagelok is helping inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists with project-based learning.
5 Common Process Analyzer System Revelations over 50 Years of Training
Sampling systems can be one of the most challenging systems within your plant to both design and operate. Industry veteran and industrial training instructor, Tony Waters, shares his trainees’ top revelations over the past 50 years.
Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap
With an aging industrial workforce nearing retirement, manufacturers are turning to younger generations to replace expert knowledge. Learn how to build an effective fluid system training program with expert advice from Swagelok.
Fluid System Safety
Refinery Safety Depends on Educated, Empowered Employees
Fugitive emissions of hazardous gases can occur in refineries. Safe, leak-free containment depends on knowledgeable and empowered teams.
How Thorough Testing Ensures Reliable Regulator Performance
Have you ever wondered what testing goes into a product designed to operate in extreme conditions? Take a look behind the lab doors, following the development journey of RHPS Series industrial regulators rated for use at temperatures well below zero.
Reviewing Flexible Hose End Connection Types & Use Cases
Learn the types of tubing or flexible hose end connections most used across industries, from pharmaceutical to semiconductor, and how to assess and select products best suited for your specific application.
Pitting Corrosion vs. Crevice Corrosion: Identifying the Differences
Stainless steel corrosion in tubing systems is a leading cause of profit loss for oil and gas companies every year. Learn how to identify & combat two main types of corrosion, pitting corrosion and crevice corrosion, with tips from Swagelok experts.
Material Matters: Selecting the Right Material for Corrosion Resistance
An offshore platform can have nearly 50,000 feet of tubing, more than 20,000 fluid system components, no fewer than 10,000 fittings, and as many as 8,000 mechanical connections. No wonder choosing corrosion-resistant material isn’t easy. Learn how to make choices right for your application.
INEOS Petrochemical Safety Case Study
Swagelok’s contribution to the safe operation of INEOS’s petrochemical facility in Cologne, Germany maps back to the close collaboration between the two companies. Learn how Swagelok’s trusted reliability helps INEOS ensure petrochemical safety.
7 Tips for Building Safer Industrial Fluid Systems
When designing industrial fluid systems, plant safety must always remain top of mind. Learn how your team of engineers and technicians can reduce safety risks and maintain system uptime with essential fluid system building and design tips.
3 Steps to Hose Safety & Lower Plant Costs
Industrial hose safety is often deprioritized during regular plant maintenance. It is important hoses receive the attention they deserve—leaks and wear can put your facility at risk. Learn tips to avoid dangerous situations while lowering plant costs.
Common Causes and Costs of Fluid System Leaks
The smallest leak can present a serious issue when maintaining your plant’s safety and profitability. Understand how and why leaks occur, how to locate and test for them, and ultimately how to develop a strategy to address and reduce leaks plant-wide.
Fluid System Evaluation
How to Fix Common Grab Sampling Deficiencies
There are several common fluid systems that successful plant operation depends on and outsourcing their fabrication can be highly beneficial if you are short on resources.
Speeding the Production of Catalyst Testing Systems for Integrated Lab Solutions
Learn how Swagelok’s solutions-driven associates and quality fluid system components helped speed the production of catalyst testing systems for Integrated Lab Solutions, a Berlin-based manufacturer of automated testing equipment.
Optimizing Medium-Pressure Oil and Gas Applications with Compression Fittings
For medium-pressure applications in oil and gas topside assets, the speed and performance benefits of compression fittings can make all the difference.
How Fluid System Fabrication Can Alleviate Resource Constraints
There are several common fluid systems that successful plant operations depend on, and choosing the right fabrication provider can be highly beneficial if you’re short on resources.
Case Study: Swagelok Helps Green Alternative Systems Control Labor Costs with Tube Bending Solutions
With Swagelok’s help testing ways to control labor costs, Green Alternative Systems (GAS) experienced a 75% reduction in production time – which translated into $224,000 in annual labor savings. Read more about how the collaboration paid off.
Sample Probe, Calibration & Switching Modules + More to Simplify Sampling
Learn how standard pre-engineered subsystems can bring efficiency and consistency to your operations by reducing the manual installation and assembly of multiple parts.
Thermal Relief Valves Systems from Swagelok Speed Production for Charbonneau Industries
Learn how Swagelok Custom Solutions helped Charbonneau Industries focus on their core capabilities by speeding production, reducing labor costs and securing system quality with prefabricated thermal relief valves systems.
Swagelok & HOERBIGER Collaborate to Reduce NOx Emissions on Legacy Engines
The collaboration between Swagelok Custom Solutions and HOERBIGER Engineering Services (HES) has been a successful one, resulting in better performing parts and lower labor costs for HES’s retrofit projects.
Luxfer Hydrogen Fuel Cell Case Study
Swagelok’s spirit of collaboration and willingness to invest in an EC-79 certification enabled Luxfer to create fuel delivery systems to power 144 hydrogen fuel cell buses. Learn how Swagelok Manchester’s level of commitment drove innovation for Luxfer.
How to Improve Fluid System Performance
When fluid systems fail to perform safely and efficiently, plant productivity suffers. Swagelok can relieve the pressure of maintaining good system performance by providing expert guidance and helping to create a culture of continuous improvement.
Industrial Hose Replacement: Core Tube Material
When selecting an industrial hose, the first place to start is the core tube—the hose’s innermost layer. Learn how to select the ideal hose for your application with information on core tube materials & wall construction from the experts at Swagelok.
Common Challenges with Process Sampling Systems
Sampling system experts and industry veterans, Tony Waters and Phil Harris, share some common challenges they have encountered with process analyzer sampling systems over the years. Learn how to resolve recurring issues within your sampling system.
Lightfoot Defence Case Study
Lightfoot Defence, a leader in military refrigeration technology, worked with Swagelok to develop innovative solutions for the Eurofighter unified jet. Learn how Swagelok fluid system components were used to create high-tech refrigerant equipment for Lightfoot.
Calculating the ROI of Process Analyzer Technology
Process analyzers are a costly, but necessary, sampling system expenditure. When justifying this expense, it’s important that you accurately calculate the analyzer’s ROI. Learn how to determine ROI and save your plant money with tips from Swagelok.
Steam Heat Exchangers and Tracing Systems: Best Practices for Design Engineers
When selecting heat exchanger and tracing components for steam systems, it’s necessary design engineers understand the system’s operational characteristics and requirements. Review Swagelok’s best practices to enhance your facility’s steam system.
How an Industrial Hose Maintenance Plan Could Save Your Plant Thousands
Knowing the proper time to replace your industrial hoses can save your plant thousands in maintenance costs. Learn how to evaluate your systems and develop a preventive maintenance plan to manage the health of your hoses.
Maximizing the Life of Industrial Fluid System Components
The cost of replacing an industrial fluid system component goes beyond the price of the part. Learn how to lower system costs while maximizing the life of your components with preventive maintenance tips from the professionals at Swagelok.
4 Strategies to Maximize Industrial Fluid System Efficiencies
Like most plant managers and engineers, you have a lot of responsibilities—but not all the resources you need to run your plant safely and efficiently. Learn how to maximize throughput, reduce costs and avoid downtime while managing your fluid system.
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