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December 01 2017 Chemical Inertness

How To Make Ammonia Slip Detection Easier

Refinery, process and plant ammonia sampling can be a difficult and sometimes maddening task, here are some tips on how to make the job easier. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology has been...

June 09 2017 Process Analytical

How to Survive an Audit (Tips for CEMS Emissions Monitoring)

It's audit time! Yay! OK no plant operator thinks happy thoughts when a state regulatory agency shows up for an emissions continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) audit. You're about to enter...

June 02 2017 Process Analytical

SilcoTek Coatings And Cassini Grand Finale

* Well it was fun while it lasted! One of our coating adventures in space will come to a Grand Finale on September 15th when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and ESA’s Huygens probe plunge into Saturn's...

March 31 2017 Process Analytical

The Problem With Sticky Surfaces

We've all been there, walking along minding our own business when splat! That dreaded step into the abyss. Gum or worse DOG POOP! Now everything stops. Your number one priority now is to remove the...

January 27 2017 Chemical Inertness

Can Braze And Solder Joints Be Made Inert?  What's The Best Joint?

Analytical systems are assembled using many types of joints ranging from compression fittings, VCR, VCO, up to KF and conflat flanges. In order to make a system inert and to assure a consistent and...

January 06 2017 SilcoTek

Protecting Intellectual Property, Is The Death Star Covered By Patents

* ** SilcoTek® coatings are utilized for a multitude of applications in space, ranging from propulsion to analytical. The ever increasing utilization of space for communications, national defense and...

December 09 2016 Chemical Inertness

SilcoNert vs. Dursan An Epic Battle

We're in the midst of incredible change and conflict. Today we watch opposing ideology and strategy compete for control and superiority on an epic scale. I'm of course talking about football. We're...

December 02 2016 Chemical Inertness

What Is An Inert Surface?  3 Ways To Tell If A Flowpath Is Inert

* If you're familiar with the SilcoTek® website and blogs you know that we offer inert coatings. But what does that mean? A web search will tell you that an inert substance is not chemically...

October 21 2016 Chemical Inertness

What Do You Want To Be For Halloween?

What are you going to be for Halloween? Man I hated that question. I seem to never be able to come up with that killer app of a costume that will make the party. The best costume I ever came up with...