Energy-saving Clean Workshops for Pharmaceutical Production Are Pushed to the Forefront

Many Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises failed to properly deal with some details in the design and construction of clean workshops, and some even focused only on pharmaceutical product quality management and overlooked the energy-saving management of clean workshops. Now the environmental protection industry attracts much attention with the worsening environment, and the environmental management has gradually shifted from single pollution source management indicators to the entire environmental system management effects. The passing of the Environmental Protection Tax Law of the People's Republic of China recently forebodes that the environmental protection efforts will continue to be increased. Pharmaceutical enterprises become the key object of management during the environmental management as one of the large polluters, and whether the energy-saving schemes of clean workshops of pharmaceutical factories are reasonable is one of the focuses of enterprises.

The energy-saving design of clean workshops of pharmaceutical factories is one of the important energy policies among the green policies of China, however, all the time, the energy saving issue has not been highly valued by pharmaceutical enterprises. Now with the increasing deepening of the environmental management, and the new-edition GMP of China making higher requirements for energy-saving design of clean workshops of pharmaceutical factories, reducing energy consumption and saving energy have become an urgent task for clean workshops of pharmaceutical factories.

Regarding how to reduce the energy consumption of clean workshops of pharmaceutical factories, according to an insider, enterprises shall begin with reduction of the pollution value of clean workshops for biopharmaceutical production, such as using the green and environmental materials with low pollution value. Furthermore, in this process, besides maintaining the environmental state of zones for high risk operations with unidirectional airflow work station, such as filling zone, zone for placing rubber stopper barrels, zone for placing open containers in direct contact with sterile preparations, and zone for aseptic assembly or connection, clean workshops for pharmaceutical production shall make appropriate adjustments according to the appropriate cleanliness class, temperature, and relative humidity, etc. The insider also pointed out that the lighting also greatly affected the energy-saving projects of clean workshops for pharmaceutical production, and the lighting of clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories should be premised on meeting physiological and mental requirements of workers.

To lower the polluting condition of clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories, one of the important ways is to reduce the energy consumption and strengthen the energy-saving management thereof, therefore, pharmaceutical enterprises need to take into account each factor in the energy-saving scheme, to reach better energy-saving effects. Effective ways to reduce energy consumption of clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories include reducing pollution value of clean rooms, reasonably designing the air cleanliness class of clean rooms, controlling the clean room temperature and humidity by season, reducing air change rate of clean rooms, and appropriately reducing illumination intensity, etc., however, how can enterprises maximize those ways during the operation? This requires pharmaceutical machinery enterprises to actively conduct technological innovation, research more new technologies and methods, and create more advanced equipment.

According to information, more and more pharmaceutical enterprises favor the advanced clean room energy-saving schemes, for example, according to a relevant person in charge of Pfizer, while paying high attention to the product quality, Pfizer always integrates the environment sustainable development into business, and reduces energy consumption and impacts on environment by actively adopting the advanced technology. Relevant pharmaceutical machinery enterprises can survive only by striving, conducting technological innovation, and walking on the green, energy-saving, and environmental path when facing the new challenges, new technical requirements, and pressure for environmental protection. Take Johnson Controls for instance, the reason for its steady development is that it has kept up with the pace of energy saving of pharmaceutical enterprises, developed an intelligent energy management system platform, automatically calculated the energy consumption of the plant in real time through graphic and text, and video means, etc., and equipped the energy-efficient production equipment, LED, and automatic solar lighting system, etc., which has also set a new energy-saving benchmark for the pharmaceutical enterprises.

Energy saving is an important energy policy in the sustainable development strategy of China. Now with the rapid development and expansion of the construction scale of clean rooms of GMP complying pharmaceutical factories in China, reducing energy consumption and saving energy have attracted more and more attention of clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories. To seize the development opportunities, suppliers who provide relevant supporting equipment to clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories shall research new advanced energy-saving technology, to help pharmaceutical enterprises effectively reduce energy consumption and pharmaceutical production cost.

Next, take the air-conditioning system of GMP clean room for instance, how relevant air-conditioning system suppliers can catch customers’ attention from the perspective of energy saving? According to information, the air volume and temperature and humidity in the air supply volume system of clean room frequently change due to various reasons. Specific to this problem, relevant air-conditioning suppliers can equip air volume sensor/transmitter and temperature and humidity sensor at the exhaust duct and air supply duct of the air cleaning and conditioning system, to have them combine with the micro differential pressure transmitter that monitors the clean room pressure, to send the detection signals to the PLC of the air cleaning and conditioning system, through the very mature energy-saving variable frequency drive technology, to regulate the fan speed in real time, and achieve optimized operation of the system air volume; PLC can also be used according to personnel’s working and rest time to timely adjust the operation condition of the air cleaning and conditioning system, and make it under the low-consumption operating state in non-working time.

Clean rooms of pharmaceutical factories are a large consumer of energy, with many factors affecting the energy consumption. Facing the pressure for energy saving and environmental protection, pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical machinery enterprises must establish the awareness of sustainable, efficient, and circular development, and regard circular development as an important development strategy; pharmaceutical machinery enterprises shall also transform development concept, create new model, and constantly develop equipment with high technological content, low resource consumption, and small environmental pollution, to thus meet the energy-saving needs of clean workshops for pharmaceutical production.

(Source/author) Zyzhan.com

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