Power

Services for the Power Industry

We provide technical consulting to the energy generation, storage, and distribution sector that improves fluid system safety, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. Across the world, power plants and facilities of many types protect their critical infrastructure with solutions and insight from Swagelok engineers.

How We Support the Power Industry

Planning Your Success

Preemptive scheduling, fabrication, and onsite services are all utilized to collaboratively prepare for your success. We work closely with site contacts and planning groups to stay ahead of new installation timelines and power outages, making our resources available to expedite your next project or maintenance need.

• Get straightforward answers from our specialists who know how to work in partnership with contractors throughout a project, from coordinating deliveries to managing onsite product inventories to providing prefabricated assemblies—all to ensure that our response rises to your situational urgency.
• We can provide quick turnaround time on outage work and can assist in your conversion to automated systems. Our local sales and service centers provide the knowledge and planning needed to prevent mistakes when installing and maintaining fluid systems.

Meeting Industry Regulations

Power plants need flexible engineering and fabrication support to adapt to changing industry standards and environmental regulations. We provide fluid solutions for both instrumentation and monitoring needs and can help you standardize your operation around common and custom components to reduce costly leaks and emissions.

• Find tubing, tube fittings, and other products engineered to ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1), Section I, Section II, and Section III requirements. We can assist you when making system changes and at times, avoid a new design review that is not fast or simple.
• We work with decision-making groups at all levels to clearly communicate project goals and coordinate a plan of action across departments, helping you maximize your internal resources.
• Get professional assistance for meeting ISO, NFPA, OSHA, EPA, and other industry or region-specific policies. For example, we can provide guidance around U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) standards, or policies set forth by The High Pressure Gas Safety Institute of Japan (KHK). Our specialists worldwide know the most up-to-date compliance information for your region.

Improving Plant Safety

High-vibration, thermocycling applications need leak-tight connections to operate reliably. Other times, corrosive environments demand tubing and tube fittings made from exotic alloy combinations that withstand harsh conditions. Many plants are also now also using advanced materials to generate power under more severe combustion conditions. These are just a few of the reasons why safety is Swagelok’s highest commitment to the industry.

• Safety is the result of products, people, and approach. We can recommend actions to help improve the safety of your facility that take applications and the human element into account.
• We can show you how small-bore tubing can drastically reduce the potential for leaks compared to pipe and pipe fittings, which makes your power plant safer and more efficient
• We will help you avoid the dangers of intermixing or interchanging fluid system products from different manufacturers—a problem that is hard to solve but can be mitigated by working closely with your site contacts
• We offer onsite training led by experienced instructors that puts safety at the center of all plant operations involving fluid systems as well as air and compressed gas systems.

Simplifying Sustainability

We can support your goals for reducing scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions to meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance standards. There is a lot to consider as the power industry works to minimize GHG emissions. Our specialists can assist you with mounting pressures from regulators, investors, and customers.

• Field engineering services support your decarbonization goals by identifying leak points in fluid systems, determining where energy is being wasted in your processes, and suggesting options like low-emissions valves or closed-loop grab sampling panels that help reduce fugitive emissions.
• Swagelok materials scientists and product engineers can help you choose fluid system products and alloys that are optimized for your process. Proper selection also limits the potential for environmental damage due to leakage.
• When controlling direct emissions, we can help you by recommending analytical instrumentation and system designs for continuous emissions monitoring in flares, stacks, or other areas around power stations.