Quick Guide: Specialty Gases Practice (6) Light, Practical, Economical: Alumini® 1 – The New Gas Bag Range. Make life easier. Struggling with full-sized gas cylinders for tiny samples? Paying a fortune just moving gases around? Amassing cylinders just to keep small amounts of gases on-hand? Simplify things: With Alumini® 1 – the new gas bag range from Westfalen. Lots, in little. More for less – from Alumini® 1 gas bags in 5, 15 or 28 litres. More flexible, more portable, and more convenient gas use. Three sizes, one conclusion: Alumini® 1 gas bags = practical simplicity. Bags of savings. What’s the use of flexibility if the numbers don’t stack up? Alumini® 1 gas bags save you time, effort and money – and these tough little everyday helpers aren’t just handier than gas cylinders, they’re also reusable. On top of that, these lightweight bags take hardly any storage space. Bags of functionality. Alumini® 1 gas bags provide portable solutions that weigh next to nothing, and are made to be user-friendly right down to the last detail: every version comes pre-fitted with both a septum and with one or two valves, so filling and withdrawal can be done in a flash. Bags of strength. Is something weighing only a few grams really tough enough for everyday use? The answer’s yes. Alumini® 1 gas bags are made of exceptionally hard-wearing multi-layer aluminium-laminated film. This thermoplastic welded material is solvent-free, almost impenetrable, opaque and chemically inert, ensuring both the purity of the contents and high utilisation. Three for three. The three sizes of Alumini® 1 gas bags are perfectly matched to the three main applications: • Sample taking • Low-pressure storage and movement of gases in-house • Manufacture of gas mixtures/test gases How can Westfalen's Alumini® 1 gas bags help you? Know-how for users. If you’d like to know more about Alumini® 1 gas bags – their make-up, delivery modes and applications - the experts from Westfalen's Specialty Gases Product Management are at your disposal any time. Use our personal consultation! Alumini® 1 gas bags – bringing you: • unlimited portability • simple handling • total flexibility • more space • high cost-effectiveness Layer upon layer to ensure the highest quality – the material structure of the Alumini® 1 gas bag (from the outside in). The result: extremely tough, chemically inert. Acronyms: PET outside PE ALU OPA PE PE inside PET = Polyethylene terephthalate PE = Polyethylene ALU= Aluminium OPA= Oriented polyamide 8.0/14 We would also be delighted to send you previous publications in the "Specialty Gases Practice" range: • Specialty Gases Practice (1) – Using Gas Mixtures: Handling, Connection, Special Cases. • Specialty Gases Practice (2) – Gases in the Laboratory: Risk Factor Tube Material. • Specialty Gases Practice (3) – Accredited Test and Calibration Laboratory: The Westfalen Specialty Gases Centre. • Specialty Gases Practice (4) – Nuclear Species: Isotopes. • Specialty Gases Practice (5) – Precious Droplets: Liquid Helium. Clean inside and out: Taking and withdrawing samples. Taking samples: By vacuum pump straight into the bag. Withdrawing samples: By syringe via the septum, or squeezing out through a withdrawal hose on the valve. The Alumini® 1 gas bag can be re-used repeatedly. Result: Easy, fast, safe. Great! Alumini® 1 gas bags – product range. Delivery mode2 Max. content1 5l empty, with valve and septum 15 l empty, with valve and septum 28 l empty, with valve and septum 28 l empty, with two valves and septum Packed in units of 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 pieces 1 2 Material number 51003005 51003015 51003028 51003027 at ambient pressure can be filled to client specifications on request: please ask Direct connection using the integrated valve; simply attach a 6 mm bore tube and turn the valve to obtain controlled gas flow – you’re done. Right: Get more as standard – the 28 litre bag is also available with two valves, facilitating simple through-flow rinsing. 8.0/14 Gases I Energy supply I Service stations Westfalen BVBA-SPRL Watermolenstraat 11 9320 Aalst/Alost Belgium Head office: Brussels Phone +32 53 641070 Fax +32 53 673907 www.westfalen.be info@westfalen.be Westfalen Gas s.r.o. 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