For the trade press
Warrendale - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Pharmaceutical Company Selects Siemens Water Technologies to Provide USP Purified Water System Upgrade for Puerto Rico Plant
A leading pharmaceutical company has chosen Siemens Water Technologies to supply a turnkey USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) Purified Water system upgrade for its biotechnology laboratory in Puerto Rico. The company is adding an additional system to the two systems already supplied by Siemens in 2003. The one point one million dollar project will begin operation in April 2007.
When the pharmaceutical company built the laboratory, Siemens Water Technologies provided a USP Purified Water system consisting of two treatment trains operating in parallel. Each automated train includes pretreatment equipment and a reverse osmosis (RO) system followed by a continuous deionization system. The use of these hot water sanitizable technologies allows the pharmaceutical plant to take well water and reduce the conductivity, total organic carbon, and bacteria levels to those required to validate the system as USP Purified Water.
Recently, when the plant's demand for high-purity water doubled, the company decided to expand the two existing treatment trains and also add a third, virtually identical, train, to the first two trains.
The system upgrade will increase the total flow rate capacity from 80 gallons per minute (18 m3/hr) to 150 gallons per minute (34 m3/hr), and is designed for seamless integration into the existing system.
"Siemens will design, install and start up the system," says Jeff Okun, responsible for biopharmaceutical solutions at Siemens Water Technologies. "We will also conduct a factory acceptance test on the equipment at our Colorado Springs, Colorado, facility, which will help the customer to greatly speed up the validation process for the new system."
Siemens Water Technologies delivers cost-effective, reliable water and wastewater treatment systems and services to municipal, industrial, commercial and institutional customers worldwide. The division "Water Technologies" is part of Siemens' Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) which is a system and solution provider for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30), I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 8.819 billion.
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