9.19 Daily Question – Open-ended question; a reward is given for every correct answer (Pharmaceutical Engineering Technology version)
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This post was last edited by sumanl on 2017-9-26 09:30 (Answers must be submitted within 24 hours). Open question: What buildings, facilities, and equipment are included in the pharmaceutical factories you have come across? (Active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations are both acceptable)
HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) systems; Purified water and water for injection systems; Pure steam systems; In-line cleaning (CIP)/In-line sterilization (SIP) systems; Compressed air and medical gas systems; Waste disposal systems; Other auxiliary facility systems
I. Equipment for fermentation processes 1. Tank-type equipment 2. Sterilization equipment II. Equipment for separation and purification 1. Filtration equipment 2. Extraction equipment 3. Crystallization equipment 4. Vacuum pumps 5. Drying equipment III. Evaporation and distillation equipment 1. Evaporation equipment 2. Distillation equipment IV. Equipment for packaging finished products V. Equipment for packaging production lines VI. Chapter 6: Air system 1. Air compressors 2. High-pressure motors 3. Air storage tanks and post-compression air treatment equipment VII. Industrial water system 1. Pressure pumps 2. Refrigeration units 3. Cooling towers and axial flow fans VIII. Steam system 1. Temperature and pressure reduction devices 2. Condensate recovery equipment IX. Power supply system and equipment for treating waste materials 1. Power supply methods in substations 2. Transformers 3. Waste water treatment equipment 4. Waste gas treatment equipment 5. Equipment for handling solid waste
Reaction room, crushing room, packaging room, drying building.
Control building, office building, equipment area
Do boiler rooms, machine repair shops, and hazardous materials storage areas count?
Clean factory, filling machine, closed continuous production line
Injection molding, bottle blowing, filling, sterilization, formulation, water production