Pharmaceutical Ingredient Control
A leading healthcare company improved their method to produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) for a small-scale-production located in a mini-plant. This procedure is unique and will lead the way to the future.
Until recently the process was ran through a single diaphragma pump without any flow control. This setup was not capable to deliver the required high flow rates. Beside this another undesirable effect emerged. The pump generated a high level of pulsation which led to serious problems in process handling.
The
new aproach consists a mini CORI-FLOW M15 Coriolis
Mass Flow Meter coupled with a three-piston diaphragm pump to dose
a precise amount of chemical compound with different solids content in
a reaction loop. The application is very demanding due to high requirements
in process speeds and stability.
The
customer is acting with wide range of expertise in Flow Chemistry. Therefore
their expectation in our contributed part was quite pinned up. After a
few process runs it became clear that the pump-controlled-dosing system
will be worth it. The PID-controlled LEWA LDB3 pump and the M15 Sensor
work perfectly together and deliver accurate and stable flow in each process
condition. The new setup offers advanced capabilities with a large degree
of flexibility which leads to lower consumption and costs.
Read the complete Application Note