Addressing Ammonia Sampling Challenges with Swagelok's Innovative Solution

Ammonia plays a pivotal role in the production of fertilizers, plastics, textiles, petroleum, and various other industries. Ensuring the water content of anhydrous ammonia falls within the optimal range of 0.2% to 0.5% is crucial to prevent stress corrosion cracking in storage tanks and maintain product quality. Swagelok offers a cutting-edge closed-loop ammonia sampling unit designed to overcome the limitations associated with traditional ammonia sample collection methods.

Swagelok's Ammonia Sampler Provides:

Enhanced Operator Safety:

• Minimizes hazardous exposure to operators.
• Adheres to the highest safety standards, reducing environmental impact.
• Installation directly at the sample point eliminates the need for transporting and storing anhydrous ammonia throughout the plant.

Precision and Accuracy:

• Eliminates reliance on operator skills, reducing inaccuracies and unnecessary costs.
• Ensures consistent results, avoiding off-spec products.
• Prevents inaccuracies in warm residue tube filling and evaporation rate control.

Improved Efficiency:

• Significantly reduces sampling time to approximately two hours.
• Streamlines the sampling process for expedited results.

Key Features and Benefits:

Closed-Sample Fixtures:

• Enhances safety by limiting operator exposure and environmental impact.
• Visual monitoring of sample conditions with a glass design.
• Available in single- or dual-fixture designs.

Prechilled Residue Tubes:

• Cold ammonia creates a controlled cold bath, ensuring fill accuracy.
• Elevated drain tube controls the fill level.
• Ammonia fast loop chills sampling valves for optimal performance.

Semiautomated Dispensing:

• Cap assembly assists in dispensing an accurate and precise sample size.
• Ensures consistent sample size with overflow into the cold bath.

Single-Handle Operation:

• Simplifies operation and reduces the risk of operator error.
• Geared mechanism controls four valves with a single handwheel.
• Additional control valves for adjustability during commissioning and maintenance.

Touch Screen Heater Controls:

• Improves consistency and prevents overheating.
• Easy-to-use touch screen interface with step-by-step instructions.