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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.

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