The wastewaters generated by all the different production processes of pharmaceuticals and drugs, cosmetics and personal healthcare products or toiletries contain a wide variety of compounds.
The wastewater treatments in pharmaceutical industry are therefore required to remove all contaminants, whether pharmaceuticals or otherwise, before reusing the water.
What does pharmaceutical wastewater contain?
Pharmaceutical industry wastewater treatments may vary depending on the drugs produced; therefore, type and flow rates differ in each manufacturing plant. Wastewaters in pharmaceutical industry are often blended with other types of effluents within the same facility; as a result, the final pharma wastewater that has to be treated may contain:
- API (Active Principle Ingredients)
- excipients
- antibiotics
- disinfectants
- proteins
- glycols
- coloring substances
- oil and chemicals
That is why EVALED® wastewater treatment plant equipment is efficient in the treatment of wastewater with API and in the treatment of other effluents from pharmaceutical industry.
Benefits of internal pharmaceutical water and wastewater treatment
Pharmaceutical and healthcare industries who do not treat and recycle their effluents internally must pay for handling, transports and treatment by third parties. To these costs, the cost of water needed to replace the initial volume must be added.
Onsite wastewater treatment in pharmaceutical industry allows for a significant reduction of operational costs while at the same time it lowers the modern pharmaceutical company’s environmental impact making water reuse possible, giving the company a full control over treatment.
The importance of reusing water for a pharmaceutical industry treatment plant
Pharma and healthcare industries are highly water consuming sectors: the treatment of their wastewaters is therefore becoming more and more strategic to reduce the cost of such a crucial finite commodity. The distillate you get from EVALED® evaporators can be reused for different purposes, for example:
- floors and outer surface cleaning
- boiler feeding
- cooling
- vehicles washing
EVALED® wastewater evaporation systems for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment
EVALED® evaporators are an extremely reliable and flexible technological solution as they allow to treat a large variety of wastewaters, being able, in a simple and effective way, to be adapted from time to time to different treatment needs.
Evaporation in the treatment of effluents from the pharmaceutical industry allows to achieve different goals:
- high quality of distillate.
- water recovery and water reuse
- ZLD (Zero Liquid Discharge) when possible
- significant reduction of volume of the waste to be disposed of
- pharma API recovery and compliance with API discharge limits
In the pharmaceutical wastewaters treatment, most of the EVALED® references worldwide are installations of:
Application & products
FINE CHEMICALS, PHARMA PRODUCTION (API)
| Application | Evaled | ADDED VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| Active ingredients | RV, AC, PC | Product recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| Reactors, tanks washing water | RV, AC, PC | Ingredients recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| Gas scrubber blow-down | RV, AC, PC | Water recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| RO concentrate | RV, AC, PC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
| IE regeneration | RV, AC, PC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
HEALTHCARE, DETERGENTS PRODUCTION
| Application | Evaled | ADDED VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| Reactors, tanks washing water | RV, AC, PC | Ingredients recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| Detergents, shampoos mixers rinsing water | RV, AC, PC | Product recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| RO concentrate | RV, AC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
| IE regeneration | RV, AC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
HEALTHCARE CREAMS, LOTIONS, PARAFFINS, GLYCOLS, ORAL DISINFECTANTS PRODUCTION
| Application | Evaled | ADDED VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| Active ingredients | AC, PC | Product recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| Mixers, tanks washing water | RV, AC, PC | Ingredients recovery, disposal cost reduction |
| Creams and lotions production wastewater | AC, PC | Sludge reduction, disposal cost reduction |
| RO concentrate | RV, AC, PC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
| IE regeneration | RV, AC, PC | ZLD, water recovery, sludge reduction |
LABORATORIES
| Application | Evaled | ADDED VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| Laboratories water discharge | PC | Sludge reduction, disposal cost reduction |
HEALTHCARE EC
| Application | Evaled | ADDED VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| New or revamping wastewater treat. plants | RV, AC | Water reuse, disposal & operational costs reduction |
Capabilities
Fine chemicals production (API)
Health care detergents production
Health care creams, lotions, paraffins, glycols, oral disinfectants production
Pharma and cosmetics laboratories
Health care engineering companies
