Process Analyzer Sampling System Training (PASS)

Swagelok Denver | Western Slope | Casper Services Customer Training Process Analyzer Sampling System Training (PASS)

Process Analyzer Sampling Systems (PASS) training is focused on overall system design. PASS training will study the detailed design of these functional modules and the selection of components to build them. See the course brochure for more details.

If you design, construct, operate or maintain sampling systems, you know how important quality data is. Inaccuracy usually results from problems within the sampling system, not the analyzer. With our hands-on training, we teach you to tell the difference.

You can learn to diagnose and eliminate common sampling system design flaws that result in erroneous data by using engineering principles, formulas, and calculations rather than relying on guesswork. And you don’t have to do it alone. You’ll design a system in class, and apply what you’ve learned to your own process analyzer sampling system. Swagelok training teaches you in days what it could take years to learn on your own.

Day 1: Fundamentals: Classwork and Basic Exercises

I. Basic Performance Criteria and Challenges

– Sample compatibility with analyzer
– Time delay in sampling
– Mixing and contamination, including deadlegs

II. Diagnosing and Fixing Time Delay Problems
– Sample transport time calculations for liquids and gases
– Gas compressibility and time delay

Day 2: Classwork and Basic Exercises

III. Sample Conditioning Techniques
– Proper use of filters and coalescers
– Liquid, vapor, and gas separation devices
– The difference between vapor and liquid concentration

IV. Sample Tap Design
– Understanding process conditions, analyzer
characteristics, and sample requirements
– Location and design of process nozzle
– Probe selection and design

Day 3: Advanced Design Concepts

V. Phase Preservation

– How to condense or vaporize a sample (or avoid it)
– How to use phase diagrams
– Design of field stations and fast loops

Day 4: Advanced Design Work

VI. Advanced Calculations

– How to determine fluid velocity in line segments
– Laminar and turbulent flow (Reynolds Number)
– Effect of temperature and pressure
– Calculating the pressure drop in each line segment

Day 5: Stream and Calibration Selection

VII. Techniques of Stream Switching

– Avoiding deadlegs and mixing volumes
– Modular sample conditioning systems
– Design and build a modular sampling system

VIII. Group Presentations
– Group presentations and instructor comments

Email or call 303.232.8844 today to talk to our Sample System experts to discuss training options.