Healthcare

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

APPLICATIONS & 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

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