Treatment of Pharmaceutical Waste Water

Huge quantities of chemicals and biological primary substances are required for making medical products. This means that the production waste water also contains a wide range of substances that cannot be easily separated from the sewage sludges. Moreover, conventional clarification and sedimentation tanks, which cover a large area and require relatively long purification times, make it very difficult to comply with statutory limit values in the waste water.

The situation is completely different with decanters from GEA Westfalia Separator. Their additional application rids the production waste water of contaminants to a level that reliably meets the statutory limit values. A major advantage of decanters compared with membrane filtration installations is that there are no “clogging” phenomena, so stable process reliability is ensured.