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Valve ManifoldApplications that require several valves to be mounted in series can suffer from reductions in performance. This diffusion bonded acrylic valve manifold uses an internal chamber to maintain a constant pressure.
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Valve ManifoldA two layer diffusion bonded acrylic plastic manifold utilising 2 and 3 port Burkert valves to mix a series of reagents and samples. Clear acrylic allows the samples to be viewed while in process.
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Valve ManifoldsCan be produced in acrylic and other engineering grade plastics. These plastic valve manifolds utilise precision valves from The Lee Company.
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Valve ManifoldThis octagonal acrylic plastic valve manifold allows 8 valves to be side mounted. The valve manifold uses Burkert 10mm valves.
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Valve ManifoldThis pneumatic valve manifold contains 8 independantly controlled pressure chambers. The acrylic manifold also acts as a chassis to support the individual pneumatic circuit PCB controllers.
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Valve ManifoldA simple cross drilled plastic valve manifold populated with valves from Parker Hannifin.
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Valve ManifoldThis three layer acrylic plastic manifold is populated with both valves and optical sensors. A black acrylic insert is used to protect the optical sensor from ambient light.
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Valve ManifoldAn unusually shaped two layer diffusion bonded acrylic manifold produced in clear acrylic. The manifold uses Asco valves to process the liquid samples.
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Acrylic Valve ManifoldPlastic valve manifolds can accomodate both surface mount and cylindrical valves. The acrylic manifold opposite utilises valves from Bio-Chem.
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Valve ManifoldThis smaller acrylic block manifold supports Burkert 10mm valves.
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Valve ManifoldThis two layer diffusion bonded acrylic manifold is populated with Pneutronics valves from Parker's precision fluidics division.
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    Valves Manifolds

    Valves, pumps and other components can be coupled using conventional plastic tubing to achieve a required fluid or gas circuit. While tubing can work for a number of applications, it can introduce other manufacturing, assembly, reliability and servicing issues.

    Preparing a liquid or gas valve assembly requires plastic tubing to be selected and cut to the required lengths. This can be a time consuming task which is then followed by the assembly of all components to create a functional circuit.

    The valve circuit assembly can be prone to performance problems due to kinks in tubes, dead volumes, leaks at joints and possible assembly errors after system maintenance. Valve manifolds can address many of these problems.

    Valve manifolds are custom designed to offer controlled flow paths and volumes over multi-valve applications. Valve manifolds can be used for handling fluids, liquids or gases in many medical and industrial applications.

    Carville HAB and diffusion bonded manifolds are produced in 3 axis (X, Y, Z). Design engineers can create the required fluid or gas circuit in two dimensions (X and Y) and enhance the functionality with additional layers in the Z axis.

    The majority of manifolds produced by Carville are in clear acrylic and are typically two or three layers. Carville also produce more complex manifolds with 5, 6 and 7 layers. Examples of these more complex multi layer manifolds can be viewed in the image library.

    Carville supply HAB and Diffusion Bonded manifolds to several of the worlds leading valve manufacturers.