Safety is a top priority, especially when highly volatile, caustic, or otherwise-hazardous fluids are flowing throughout plants. That is why we offer leak-tight components with the necessary performance characteristics to prevent fluid from escaping your systems, assemblies designed with minimal connection points, and supporting services based on decades of experience serving the chemical market.
- Local Swagelok sales and service center associates are prepared to assist with selecting proper components, consult on system designs, and even fabricate reliable fluid system assemblies to improve safety in your liquid and gas applications.
- Swagelok field engineers—backed by a global team of chemical processing system and analytical instrumentation experts—can evaluate your systems and provide detailed recommendations to mitigate risks.
- Our fluid system specialists will deliver in-depth, safety-focused training to give process and analytical engineers, technicians, and maintenance personnel the knowledge necessary to avoid preventable mistakes when installing, using, and maintaining fluid systems.
Maintaining the uptime and reliability of process and sampling equipment is crucial to reaching profitability goals. Fluid system leaks or component failures that lead to lost productivity, lost process fluid, or lost energy efficiency are unacceptable, which is why we help chemical plant and refinery operators worldwide to minimize time needed for fluid system maintenance and repair.
- Our engineers can provide insight on what compatible materials choices, design considerations, and proven processes will help keep various fluid systems functioning reliably in harsh conditions.
- Our mechanical efficiency specialists can assess your mechanical systems to help extend the life of rotating equipment with standard Swagelok mechanical seal support systems built according to various API plans. They can also help you replace piping systems with tubing to simplify maintenance and improve the reliability of your systems.
- Through onsite and virtual fluid system audits, Swagelok field engineers can identify opportunities to improve the efficiency of your fluid system designs and provide recommendations prioritized by return on investment.
Budget tightening, downward market pressures, or other conditions outside of your control can make profitability goals harder to reach. If you find yourself under pressure to do more with less, we can help you minimize the drain on your resources associated with system design and assembly, component replacement, maintenance, or utility usage.
- Swagelok specialists can build configurable, reliable fluid system assemblies that help maximize the lifespans of your equipment while minimizing waste of utilities, time, and sellable product.
- Our fluid system advisors can evaluate your newly planned fluid systems to help identify process instrumentation and other system components composed of proper materials, as well as design parameters that are optimal for your applications. They can also assess existing systems to identify leaks and other causes of inefficiency so you can avoid unnecessary operational costs.
- Sampling system specialists can conduct in-depth analysis of your sampling systems, from process tap to analyzer, to help you improve sampling accuracy. These professionals can help you eliminate causes of poor sample quality, reduce analyzer downtime, resolve issues related to particulate loads or time delay, and recommend proven system designs allowing you to better control your process inputs and manage costs.
- Our gas distribution advisors can also visit your facilities to locate leaks that lead to the waste of expensive gases or system inefficiency due to pressure loss. They can also recommend standard gas panel subsystem designs to efficiently handle gases throughout your facilities.
If emissions reduction is a priority due to your environmental, social, and governance goals or pressure from investors and regulators, we can help you avoid fines, reputation damage, and fluid leaks that put your people, profitability, and the planet at risk. As you strive to achieve your decarbonization goals, work towards net-zero emissions, or otherwise pursue more environmentally friendly fluid system operations, we can help you in your energy transition.
- Our fluid system specialists can help you find “easy wins” related to emission reduction by finding potential leak points in your systems, indicating where energy is being wasted in your processes, and suggesting leak-tight fluid system components such as certified low-emission valves to prevent fugitive emissions.
- Swagelok fluid system specialists can also provide insights on how to avoid fugitive emissions by recommending alternative system design choices or by providing equipment such as low-leak, closed-loop grab sampling panels that minimize the risk of fluid escaping to the environment.
- We also help chemical facility operators effectively manage direct emissions by providing high-quality fluid system components, analytical instrumentation assemblies, training, and onsite services that enable reliable continuous emissions monitoring in flares and stacks or areas around plants.
