Optimize Your Sampling System Swagelok® Process Analyzer Sampling
System (PASS) training will teach you how to design and optimize process analyzer sampling systems, providing the sound design principles needed to prevent costly sampling system errors. Attendees will learn how to design and build an optimized process analyzer sampling system that delivers timely, accurate results.
In this course, you will learn:
- How a sampling system functions from the process line and tap through the transport lines and stream switching, sample conditioning, analyzer and disposal processes
- How to identify the root cause of issues related to system design
- Engineering principles, formulas and calculations that are the basis for sound sampling system design
- How to optimize your sampling system, prevent sampling system errors, and ensure accurate process analyzer readings
Course content is derived from Industrial Sampling Systems, a technical reference book authored by industry expert and consultant Tony Waters.
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April 13 – 17, 2026 in Stavanger
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Target Audience | Training Topics | 5 days Agenda | Your Instructor Bert Laan | Training Details
Target Audience
System and design engineers, chemists, integrators, highly trained technicians, and anyone with an engineering background interested in understanding the fundamentals of designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining sampling systems.
Topics
- Read and create sampling system schematics
- Design and build a sampling system
- How to identify the root cause of issues related to system
- Diagnose sample transport problems
- Evaluate and determine sample tap location
- Calculate and evaluate sample transport lag (time delay) of liquids and gasses
- Calculate pressure drop in a fast loop or return line
- Predict vapor condensation
- Prevent or control phase preservation
- Vaporize a sample
- Avoid deadlegs in a sampling system
- Understand stream switching techniques
* Attendees of the PASS training receive the technical reference book, Industrial Sampling Systems authored by Tony Waters
5-days Agenda
Day 1: Fundamentals, Classwork, and Basic Exercises Basic performance criteria and challenges
Sample compatibility with analyzer
- Time delay in sampling
- Mixing and contamination, including deadlegs
Diagnosing and fixing time delay problems
- Sample transport time calculations for liquids and gases
- Gas compressibility and time delay
Day 2: Classwork, Basic Exercises, and Group Project - Design a Complete Sampling System
Sample conditioning techniques
- Proper use of filters and coalescers
- Liquid, vapor, and gas separation devices
- The difference between vapor and liquid concentration
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 and Group Project - Design a Complete Sampling System
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 and Group Project - Prepare Group Design Presentations
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
Techniques of stream switching
- Avoiding deadlegs and mixing volumes
- Modular sample conditioning systems
- Design and build a modular sampling system
Group presentations
- Group presentations and instructor comments
Your Instructor
Industry Expert and Consultant
and projects comprising many analyser houses.
He has been involved from concept to fabrication, installation and commissioning of analyser systems, and has also supervised the maintenance of installed systems, from the arctic to the tropics and off-shore. He is currently working as consultant to Swagelok for advice on analyser system designs and in providing analyser systems training and maintenance.
Training details
Swagelok Norway / Stavanger office
Moseidveien 23
4033 Stavanger
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April 13 – 17, 2026 in Stavanger