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Clean Energy Technology for Hydrogen and Natural Gas
Swagelok provides high-integrity, dependable fluid system components and tailored services for electrolyzers, fuel cells, fuel storage and containment equipment, refueling infrastructure, and on-vehicle systems. Our products and assemblies for hydrogen or natural gas applications meet your toughest clean energy application requirements including:
- Safe storage and transfer at high pressures and compression to deliver the desired energy densities and operational ranges
- Consistent delivery of critical components, assemblies, and custom solutions that keep projects on schedule
- Durability and dependability of fluid components thanks to stainless steel with a higher alloy content to provide enhanced corrosion resistance
- Lasting elastomeric components composed of materials optimized for longevity in CNG and LNG systems
Swagelok’s 75+ years of experience in the containment and management of hazardous fluids and small-molecule gases under pressure makes us unique. Today we channel that experience into the products, solutions, and services we engineer and deliver specifically to meet the needs of companies engaged in the pursuit of environmentally safe and sustainable energy business opportunities.
Your local authorized Swagelok sales and service center is the place to start harnessing the potential of hydrogen and LNG/CNG systems.
Clean Energy Services and Support
Fluid system components are crucial to the evolution of clean energy sources and enabling alternative fuel vehicles to run on hydrogen and natural gas.
From the lab to the field, we work with global customers, helping them safely and efficiently reach their goals for production, distribution, compression, refueling, and mobility applications.
We support the hydrogen industry with fluid system components designed to prevent small-molecule gas leaks, work under high-containment pressure, and fight embrittlement and degradation. Plus, our field engineers help you address risk factors throughout your fluid systems, such as leaks caused by improper component installation or product selection, inefficient system designs, or selection of materials unsuited for alternative fuel applications.
Delivering trusted fluid system components for CNG and LNG via virtual pipeline, compression and refueling, and on-vehicle applications helps the increasing use of natural gas on a global scale. As a technology leader that plays a role across all stages of the industry, it is our mission to deliver trusted fluid system solutions for these applications.
Swagelok’s clean energy standards guide helps you navigate the industry’s testing and standards landscape and explore our complete portfolio of components for hydrogen and natural gas applications.
Clean Energy Applications
We support companies that manufacture or supply equipment for the manufacturing of hydrogen and CNG/LNG applications such as:
Hydrogen
- Electrolyzers
- Microgrids
- Fuel cells
- Virtual pipelines/tube trailers
- Refueling stations (infrastructure)
- Internal Combustion Engines (ICE)/Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV)
- Dispensers and priority panels
- Analyzer and sampling systems
CNG/LNG
- Virtual pipelines/tube trailers
- Refueling stations (infrastructure)
- Commercial and fleet vehicles
Benefits of Clean Energy Support
Manufacturers of clean energy production facilities, vehicles and refueling infrastructure need access to knowledge and experience to increase productivity and reduce risk. Swagelok works closely with these leaders every day and can support your goals for improving safety and performance, understanding regulatory compliance, and minimizing downtime while maximizing reliability.
Improving Safety
Swagelok can help you build safety into your fluid system-related practices when working with clean energy technologies.
Enabling Performance
Swagelok can help you tackle the challenges that come with high pressures, changing temperatures, and vibrations in fluid systems and infrastructure.
Understanding Regulatory Compliance
Swagelok can help meet complex engineering requirements with our certified products for clean energy infrastructure and on-vehicle use.
Minimizing Downtime, Maximizing Reliability
Swagelok can help support you locally through 200-plus authorized sales and service center locations across 70 countries.
Meeting Design Challenges
Designing production, distribution, compression, refueling and mobility solutions is uniquely challenging. As an example, hydrogen can embrittle and degrade many lower-quality metals and is hard to contain under pressure. Persistent vibration is another challenge. Our engineers can recommend solutions such as fluid system components and assemblies configured to your requirements.
- Our standardized, configurable fluid system assemblies are thoroughly tested, inspected, packaged and warrantied. Single part numbers also make ordering easy. All assemblies are built according to best practices through our design and assembly services.
- Our experienced product design engineers have the technical knowledge, advanced software, and manufacturing expertise to customize fluid system solutions to meet narrow specifications. They can help with applications such as fuel line integration, priority panels, dispensing systems, heavy-duty refueling equipment, and more.
- Our materials scientists can apply an expert-level understanding of metallurgy and chemical compatibility to help you find the right materials and designs despite any challenge. Minimize corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, and other issues by working with specialists to choose fluid system components that have all the appropriate certifications, approvals, and compositions already in place.
Regulatory Compliance Expertise
You need a supplier that understands the processes, certifications, and requirements related to the clean energy market. Swagelok fluid system products are certified for use by relevant industry organizations around the world. Our clean energy solutions can help you meet performance criteria and comply with governing mandates. We can help you navigate:
- Regional Compliance Needs: We work with global and regional standards organizations to understand complex engineering requirements and provide a variety of certified products for clean energy on-vehicle and infrastructure use to help you stay compliant wherever you operate. These include ECE R134 and HGV 3.1-compliant products for hydrogen systems, NGV3.X and NGV4.X, and ECE-R110 compliant products for natural gas dispensing systems, among other certifications.
- Production Parts Approval Processes (PPAP): We develop components specifically for automotive and other transportation industry use, offering standard products up to Level 3 of PPAP. Our team can help ensure the solutions you choose will meet specifications.
- International Material Data System (IMDS) Requirements: We understand IMDS protocols and will transmit IMDS reports directly to your inbox that show you meet environmental regulatory requirements.
- Manufacturing Emissions Compliance: Our field engineering team is highly trained and ready to visit your facility. We will help you identify potential leak points in your systems and suggest leak-tight, compliant components that are low-emissions certified, so you can avoid fugitive emission-related losses and fines.
Minimizing Downtime, Maximizing Reliability
No matter where in the industry you’re working, you need access to available, reliable components to keep your assembly lines and critical processes moving. At our 200-plus authorized sales and service center locations across 70 countries, local trained and certified associates can provide you with conveniently accessible, globally consistent fluid system products suited for clean energy industry applications. They can also provide onsite assistance to help you troubleshoot and avoid fluid system leaks, inefficiency and downtime.
- Choose from components such as our FK series medium-pressure fittings or assembly-by-torque (AbT) designed for reliability, ease of installation, remake, and visual inspection so you can assemble complex systems safely and reliably
- Work with Swagelok-certified local associates who design ready-to-integrate fluid system assemblies that minimize the risk of leaks. They can also reduce time and burden on your staff related to assembling and maintaining fluid systems
- Specialists can evaluate your fluid systems and deliver prioritized recommendations to improve reliability, uptime, and safety
Engineering Services for Clean Energy
When you choose to work with Swagelok, we provide flexible engineering services for clean energy components. Innovators working with hydrogen, CNG, and LNG worldwide trust our engineering services.
Design and Assembly Services
Swagelok takes a collaborative approach to developing fluid system solutions for hydrogen, CNG, and LNG handling. We are meticulous in understanding your application, developing the configuration that most completely meets your needs. Swagelok® Custom Solutions can consist of either a few components or entire fluid systems, including gas fill panels or assemblies to integrate into dispensers, compressors and fuel line solutions—all built to your exact specifications and ready to be installed.
Onsite Services
We can work onsite with you to recommend solutions to issues experienced with clean energy technologies and supporting fluid systems. Swagelok field engineers will visit your production facilities to help you attain optimal performance on vehicles, at mobile or stationary refueling stations, or within the facility. They can help you minimize spending, downtime, and potential safety hazards and environmental risks.
Essentials Training
Swagelok offers training on topics including tube fitting, tube bending, hose routing, orbital welding, product selection, installation, and inspection so your team can effectively assemble and operate critical fluid systems for clean energy technologies. In-depth, hands-on courses are taught by certified Swagelok instructors recognized for their ability to prepare others to solve problems with confidence.
Hydrogen Tube System Training
Learn about the relationship between installation requirements and safety in the workplace with our industry-specific, standardized training program intended to help you build safer, more dependable fluid systems for hydrogen applications.
Materials Science Training
Choosing the right corrosion-resistant materials helps keep fluid systems leak-tight. Learn which alloys and polymers are compatible with clean energy applications and how industry standards impact your choices. Swagelok® materials science training is for engineers, supervisors, purchasing agents, technical associates, and anyone involved in the material selection process.