Stories & Features
What is a Manifold Valve?
Jul 23, 2024
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IDEX Health & Science
A manifold valve is used for fluid management in your instrument platform. Rather than the valve being connected by tubing and fittings, the valve is mounted directly onto a PEEK, acrylic, or Ultem manifold. Manifold channels are customized to meet the specific fluidic needs of your platform design, elegantly directing samples and reagents without waste. Multiple valves can be mounted onto a single manifold, eliminating excess lengths of tubing and negating the need for overfilling reagent lines.
Advantages of Using a Manifold Valve
If you are looking to reduce the amount of tubing, installation time, and servicing points on your fluidics platform, IDEX Health & Science can simplify your flow path with a manifold valve. Our bonded or cross-drilled manifolds integrate seamlessly with valves, degassers, sensors, probes, and pumps to create a fully customized fluid path and a clean, consistent, instrument design.
How to Choose the Best Manifold Valve for Your Application:
- The TitanHT 24/25 is ideal for applications with up to 24 reagents
- Looking for a sample prep solution with minimal fuss? Multiplex your flow path with our TitanHP 8/9 valve.
- Ultem manifolds offer great compatibility across a variety of reagents and buffers
- Our design team verifies your custom design with computational fluidic monitoring
Benefits and Features of IDEX Health & Science Manifold with a Valve:
- Precision control of many reagents
- Simplified installation into our customer’s instruments
- Simplified troubleshooting and servicing
- Conservative reagent usage, no need to overfill lines with this design
- Vertical integration at IDEX enables controlled costs and enhanced performance
- Full functional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) testing guaranteeing drop-in fluidics meeting all specifications
Our engineering team works with you to create a custom valve and manifold design that meets your fluidic needs, considering your pressure and material compatibility concerns.
Typical Valve Manifold Configurations
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