Critical Utilities Sustainability - Case Study

The biopharmaceutical industry has been witnessing an essential transition towards sustainability and digitalization.  In particular, clean utilities are one of the focus areas experiencing the most significant discussion as they are one of the largest energy and water consumers.  New technologies and process solutions go hand in hand with improving existing systems with the common goal of using energy and water more efficiently, as water is a resource that has become very rare in many areas of the world.  This presentation aims to show an overview of sustainability in clean utilities for the Facility of the Future-As a supplier of clean utilities systems, we will address end user needs in term of more sustainable technologies and process solutions.  A consolidated method called Sustainability Assessment will be described, which aims to analyze new or existing clean utility systems and identify solutions to improve sustainability cost-effectively, all contextualized to site and geographical area conditions through a holistic view of the system.  In addition to presenting the main steps of the assessment, a real case study will be shown for the implementation of advanced technology in critical utilities.