Once you’ve determined how your facility is currently using resources, you can put measures in place to use those resources in a more sustainable manner. Biopharma facilities and processes tend to use a lot of water, but there are plenty of opportunities to reduce and reuse water to improve your overall water management.
Condensate, wash water, reverse osmosis (RO) reject, and clean-in-place (CIP) water can be reclaimed in some process systems, used as utility feed water, or re-directed for site irrigation to reduce facility water consumption.
Air-cooled central plants using air water-water heat pumps or air-cooled chillers offer significant water savings by using the air as a heat source/sink and eliminating the need for cooling towers, associated chemical treatment, and refrigerant room machinery space, which frees more facility real estate for manufacturing.