It's Back: Swagelok Process Analyzer Sampling System Training

Improve reliability with our five-day PASS class August 25 though 29 in Fremont

It takes a good fluid sampling system to make a process analyzer reliable. That's why it's so important to properly design and build the sampling system. Our five-day course in Fremont next month is an ideal way to improve your skills. This is a great program for chemists, engineers, technicians, and any pro involved in the design or operation of process analyzer sampling systems.

Once again we're bringing Tony Waters to Fremont to show how it's done. Waters has more than 50 years of experience with process analyzers and their sampling systems, having worked in engineering and marketing roles for an analyzer manufacturer, an end-user, and a systems integrator. He also founded three companies to provide specialized analyzer services to the process industries.

His five-day course will show common design flaws that produce inaccurate results. It also will cover stream switching, sample conditioning and more.

Intensive work

The first day will cover the fundamentals, including basic performance criteria and how to diagnose and fix time delay problems. Day 2 will put the class to work with a group project to design a complete sampling system. Day 3 will move on to advanced design concepts such as phase preservation, with another group project. Day 4 will go through advanced calculation and more group work. Day 5 covers stream and calibration selection, techniques of stream switching and a chance for the groups to present their work.

Attendees will get a certificate of completion and can go home with all the course materials. They'll also get meals and a copy of Waters' 744-page book titled "Industrial Sampling Systems: Reliable Design and Maintenance for Process Analyzers." 

Come to the class and get the book

The book is designed to teach, not be a reference.

"We tried to make it accessible for anybody with a high school education. There are some parts that require a little extra science, basic physics mainly. But it was designed for an analyzer technician in a plant to pick up and read," Waters says. "The language is not hard and boring. I'm surprised Swagelok allowed me to make it so light."

For attendees it’s like taking home a refresher course. It's hard to memorize and recall everything Waters covers in the five days. The book will bring it all back. On top of that, it has chapters on the fundamental measurements of temperature, pressure and flow. It's especially helpful in understanding the metric SI system of measurement which will come in handy. It's the system most of the world uses, and the language that Waters will use in the class. (So brush up on your meters and Pascals.)

Comments from last year's attendees

"Outstanding! Hard concepts made easy to understand. Very valuable class exercises. Good practice to help learn the concepts."

"Lectures were very valuable and relevant. Great exercises with real life examples. Great deal of information that might not be attained anyplace else in industry in one class."

"I'll use what I learned every time we have a new installation at our site."

"The lectures were very valuable especially the trouble shooting and verification. The group project helped us to think and actually look at the way things truly work."

"The group project allowed us to see real challenges and real solutions.  The class covered real world refinery applications."

"The lectures put the concepts and calculations into real life situations and the class exercises put the calculations and formulas into action."

"Tony has a wealth of knowledge and kept things lively even when the topic was dry"

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By the way, bring a good pen or a sharp pencil for making calculations in class. It's simple division, rather than calculus or trigonometry, but there will be a lot of them.

Additional Resources

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