Water For The Use Of The Pharmaceutical Industry

Water for the use of the pharmaceutical industry

Water is indispensable in the pharmaceutical industry since it is commonly used raw material either for the manufacture of medicinal products, incorporated or not to the final product or for the washing or cleaning of machinery, containers or containers.

Water used in the pharmaceutical industry is called pharmaceutical water, it must be prepared from drinking water, it can have different types of qualities depending on the mode of use or administration. For water purification it leads to a series of stages, depending on the source of origin that provides the system either rivers, streams, lakes, underground among others.

The pharmaceutical industry that does not have the drinking water network, for the elaboration of their processes, will have to produce it either by filtration, precipitation, softening among others.

The distribution of pharmaceutical use water within the plant must comply with standards where the pipe must be closed and with continuous recirculation so the distribution system has to be heat exchangers with two types of tubes to avoid contamination of the contamination of the contamination of theCurrent water. The indicated material of the pipe where it is in contact with the water must be stainless steel, with its polished inner surface to prevent biofilm, likewise the pumps and taps of the pharmaceutical plant must be sanitary, with unionsBy orbital automatic welding. The system has to have a favorable level towards the points of use, to prevent water from stingy.

Air treatment system

Materials to form the plant’s air system should be carefully selected, the design should allow easy maintenance to avoid future sources of pollution.

• All production areas must have a ventilation with an air control, these areas must be regularly controlled during the process either in production or outside them. Each type of manufacturing has a level of air cleaning, in order to reduce the risk of contamination with particles or microorganisms of the product or the substances that are being manipulated.
• Each section or department of the facilities must maintain a positive air pressure.
• In some departments where they work with toxic substances it is necessary to have decontamination and air treatment facilities
• The most used method to obtain a quality air is by filtration and in the pharmaceutical industry the HEPA filters are used
• The plant must have extraction cabins containing fans and gas extraction systems made of acids resistant to acids and chemicals.

Roofs

Based on what indicates the rules, the ceilings have to comply with the same standards as on the walls, regarding the cleaning and disinfection class in the same way it has to be designed to facilitate sanitation.

• They must be built with a type of industrial thermal insulator called Sandwich panel, which are assembled with each other, they have a smooth surface.
• The finishing materials that are used can be metallic such as steel, pre -fold or stainless, galvanized, and other material such as resin and melanin. As filling, polystyre or polyurethane or rock wool can be used.
• The roofs for white rooms must also be inert to microorganisms and be resistant to the action of the different chemical agents.
• Both the walls, the roof and the floor, their unions have to be complete.
• Luminaires must be specially designed to illuminate sterile environments.