We Need to Rethink Water!

Sustainability and decarbonization are now executive priorities for organizations and sit at the forefront of everything we do. This applies equally to optimization of existing facilities as it does to new facilities. Use of advanced digital platforms can facilitate site optimization strategies with respect to meeting a sites sustainability goals. System integrated real-time data analytics combined with engineering expertise can help to identify opportunities on complex manufacturing sites to reduce carbon emissions, optimize energy use, and align operational actions with strategic goals. One focus area for such activities being the life blood of biopharmaceutical facilities, WFI.Water for Injection (WFI) is a critical material for biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. Generation of WFI can take several forms as can the methodology for sanitisation of the Storage and Distribution (S&D) systems. The traditional approach being generation of WFI via distillation and maintaining hot S&D systems for the purpose of sanitization which results in high energy consumption leading to significant input to a sites operational carbon emissions. There is however a whole lot more to decarbonization of your WFI systems than swapping out your old distillation system for a membrane generation system or exchanging heat sanitization of your S&D systems for ozone.