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An essential commodity, water plays a vital role in almost all stages of pharmaceutical and
intermediate chemical manufacturing industries.
In the pharmaceutical production plant, there are various methods of wastewater treatment that
include aerobic / anaerobic treatment, reverse osmosis, multimedia / carbon filtration, evaporation
etc. Through these processes, the water is treated, recycled, reused or released out in the
environment, to meet the norms of the government or ward off the problem of water scarcity. The
process of wastewater for pharmaceutical industry is mentioned below.
The waste released out of Pharmaceutical industries and drug manufacturing units contain various
ingredients, solvents and other substances that are harmful to humans and animals. Technologies
such as aerobic / anaerobic treatment, membrane filtration and reverse osmosis work efficiently for
different streams of this industry that reduce Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biological Oxygen
Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and Total Dissolved Soilds (TDS) in the pharmaceutical
effluent.
The treatment of water in Pharmaceutical industry varies from different processes and technologies
that the companies adopt. The treatment is carried out as follows:
Preliminary Treatment: The wastewater is passed through a bar screen chamber where the floating
particles are filtered out. The water is then collected in the collection tank.
Aeration: The water collected is aerated by blowing air through air blower for a day. The water is
transferred to the neutralization tank, after the aeration process.
Biological Degradation: In the bioreactor tank, the nutrients are added for the proper growth of
bacteria that degrade the organic matter of the effluent. The sludge is segregated from the settling
tank and the water is filtered through activated carbon filter.
Filtration: The treated effluent is passed through the activated carbon filter to remove coloring
material.
Recycle through high efficiency Reverse Osmosis systems is the final step where the end process
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