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Pinch Valves
Carten Sanitary Pinch Valves
Sentinel Process has partnered with Carten to offer a line of sanitary pinch valves with unique advantages over traditional “throw-away” polymer components for shut-off single-use applications in bioprocessing. All tubing brands and compounds can be operated indefinitely from batch-to-batch with no physical break to the process tubing thus preventing any possibility of contamination. The Carten pinch valve is a robust design manufactured using polished stainless steel. These feature-rich pinch valves are customizable with quick turn-around time.
Key Features:
- Fits over existing tubing – no product exposure or breaks in tubing
- Multi-Use functionality
- Suitable for any tubing brand or compound
- Interchangeable tube holder and compressor allows 2 valve bodies to support over 60 tube configurations
- Fully autoclavable
- Optional automated flow control
- Optional real-time analytics for real-time monitoring
- Optional open/close feedback sensor
- Optional lock-out feature for User safety
- Suitable for high pressure and solvents
- XL version for high-pressure applications
- Variety of mounting options
Typical Applications Include:
- Single-Use Filling
- Single-Use Filtration
- Single-Use Ultra-Pure Water Production
- Single-Use Biopharmaceutical manufacturing
- Single-Use Cell Culture
- Single-Use Chromatography
- Single-Use Aseptic biochemical production
Specifications
Pinch Valves for Single-Use Processing Tubing Material Platinum-Cured Silicon or TPE (Additional Materials Upon Request) Tubing Size 1/8” – 1” ID Body Material ASTM A276/A479 316L (S31603) Bonnet Material ASTM A276/A479 316L (S31603) Pressure Rating Dependent on tubing selected Temperature Range Dependent on tubing selected Operating Mode Pneumatic and Manual Instrumentation Compatible with IFM, Turck and Burkert solutions