Fluid Management
Engineered Fluid Paths That Reduce Failure Points
Fluid management depends on the right combination of materials, routing, connections, and performance properties. Mercury Plastics combines extrusion, forming and fabrication, injection overmolding, and electron beam processing to engineer fluid-routing solutions with fewer potential leak points and materials matched to demanding applications.
Fluid Management Challenges Vary by Application
Plumbing: Reduce Potential Leak Points
Every fitting, joint, clamp, or connection can introduce another potential failure point. Formed tubing and integrated connection details can simplify fluid paths while helping manufacturers meet the performance and material requirements associated with potable water applications.
Battery Energy Storage Systems: Manage Heat, Chemistry & Space
BESS cooling systems have to route fluid through compact enclosures while accommodating thermal cycling and exposure to coolants and other chemicals. The right tubing geometry and material properties can help support reliable thermal management without unnecessarily complicating the system.
Water Dispensing & Filtration: Protect Water Quality
Tubing and fluid-contact components need to do more than resist leaks. Material selection can affect chemical resistance as well as the taste and odor of the water moving through the system.
A Fluid Management Partner Beyond These Markets
These challenges aren’t limited to plumbing, BESS, or water dispensing. Wherever manufacturers need to route fluids reliably through demanding environments, Mercury can work with engineering teams to evaluate the geometry, connections, materials, and performance requirements of the application.
Capabilities for Better Fluid Management
Extrusion
Create custom tubing and profiles in materials selected around the application’s fluid, temperature, chemical, dimensional, and performance requirements.
Forming & Fabrication
Route tubing through complex or confined spaces while reducing cuts, joints, and fittings. Mercury’s forming capabilities can create turns and geometries directly in the tubing, including applications where a conventional fitting might otherwise be required.
Injection Overmolding
Integrate connection points and end details without relying on conventional joining techniques such as gluing, clamping, crimping, or heat sealing, helping simplify assemblies and improve connection performance.
Electron Beam Processing
Improve polymer properties through cross-linking, including chemical resistance, heat resistance, stress-crack resistance, abrasion resistance, dimensional stability, chlorine/chloramine resistance, and taste and odor performance.
Where Fluid Management Applies
Plumbing & Water Delivery
Potable water lines, fixture connections, and other applications where reliable connections and material performance matter.
Battery Energy Storage Systems
Cooling loops and fluid-routing systems that must perform within compact, thermally demanding environments.
Water Dispensing & Filtration
Fluid-contact tubing and components where water quality, taste and odor, and chemical resistance are important considerations.
Emerging Fluid Applications
Have a fluid-routing challenge outside these markets? Mercury’s engineering team can help evaluate whether its materials and manufacturing capabilities are a fit.
Engineered to Solve Fluid Management Challenges
Fewer Connections. Fewer Potential Leak Points.
Formed tubing and overmolded connection details can create more continuous fluid paths with fewer fittings, joints, and potential failure points.
Materials Built for the Fluid Environment
Mercury can pair material selection with electron beam cross-linking to improve chemical and stress-crack resistance for demanding fluid environments.
Complex Routing, Simplified
Formed tubing can navigate tight spaces and complex geometries while reducing the cuts, joints, and fittings required to get there.
Performance Where Water Quality Matters
Electron beam cross-linking can improve taste and odor characteristics while enhancing properties that support long-term fluid-system performance.
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