FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES

摘要

Fluid storage and dispensing systems and processes involving various structures methods for fluid storage and dispensing, including, pre-connect verification couplings that are usefully employed with fluid storage and dispensing packages to ensure proper coupling and avoid fluid contamination issues, empty detect systems (e.g., monitoring pressure of dispensed liquid medium to detect pressure droop conditions) useable with fluid storage and dispensing packages incorporating liners that are pressure-compressed in the fluid dispensing operation, ergonomically enhanced structures for facilitating removal of a dispense connector from a capped vessel, cap integrity assurance systems for preventing misuse of vessel caps, and keycoding systems for ensuring coupling of proper dispense assemblies and vessels. Fluid storage and dispensing systems achieve zero or near-zero headspace character, and prevent or ameliorate solubilization effects in liquid dispensing from liners in overpack vessels.

主权项

1. A fluid storage and dispensing system, including a fluid storage and dispensing vessel adapted for holding fluid in an interior volume thereof, said vessel having a port opening, a cap engaged with said port opening for sealing thereof, and a dispense assembly including a connector engageable with the cap to access fluid in the vessel for dispensing thereof through the dispense assembly, said connector including at least one engagement member translatable between a first position at which the vessel is pressurized and at which the at least one engagement member is operatively engaged with the cap and lockingly retains the connector for dispensing, and a second position at which the vessel is depressurized and at which the at least one engagement member is operatively disengaged from the cap to enable removal of the connector from the cap.