Grab Sampling Evaluation
& Advisory Services
Discover the Benefits of Swagelok's Grab Sampling Evaluation and Advisory Services
Without proper grab sampling system design and maintenance, critical actions like capturing, handling, or analyzing samples that are timely and representative of your process can be difficult to achieve. Work with our experts to produce more accurate, compliant, safe samples while reducing your costs.
Our team of certified fluid system specialists can:
- Identify issues affecting sample quality and compliance
- Provide insights to make grab sampling systems safe and more accurate
- Reduce required maintenance and panel downtime by optimizing system design
- Design and assemble reliable, tested grab sampling systems
What to Expect
Every customer, facility, and engagement is unique, but typically these are the steps when engaging with our Fluid System Specialists:

1. Listening
Starting with a meeting or phone conversation, we gather information to understand the situation. We want to learn about our customer's applications, operations, and current challenges. Then we recommend the next steps and provide a quote, if applicable.

2. Inspection
Our Swagelok-certified field engineers will inspect your facility to pinpoint issues. Our thermal imaging and ultrasonic equipment find leaks as small as 1 x 10-3 cm3/s. We also note potential safety hazards, misapplication of components, and excessive wear or damage.

3. Analysis
Working with data and observations made onsite, we quantify each issue's impact on your operation. The advice reflects a range of considerations, such as issue location, severity, estimated cost, and effects on safety, emissions, system reliability/production capacity, and product quality.

4. Delivery
We deliver a report summarizing what we evaluated, issues observed, and our recommendations, and addressing each issue in detail. Details include but are not limited to the root cause, exact location/tag ID, and how to resolve the issue. Our customer gets as much time as they need to discuss the findings.
Resources

Grab Sampling 101: Reducing Plant Costs
Grab sample systems allow for safe, efficient sample captures—validating your product’s chemical composition. Learn how to improve your closed loop system’s reliability while reducing plant costs with basics from the experts at Swagelok. Read More.

An Introduction to Grab Sampling
Learn about grab sampling best practices for both gaseous and liquid fluid system media, the characteristics of well-designed and easily operable grab sampling systems, and how to reliably achieve grab sampling accuracy. Read More.

Liquid Grab Sampling Strategies to Control Costs
Discover several strategies to help drive down costs and minimize errors in your liquid grab sampling processes as you validate process conditions and analyze end product quality. Read More.
Need more information, support, or quotation?
Give us a call at 603.8084.1818 or email us.