HVAC system provides heating, cooling, and air conditioning services for residential and industrial areas. Pharmaceutical companies have a sensitive environment and they must control that for manufacturing. The good manufacturing practice (GMP) is much-needed requirement for pharmaceutical companies, and HVAC system has a crucial design for pharmaceutical companies. HVAC is part and parcel of any pharmaceutical company’s daily production.
What is HVAC?
HVAC refers to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The main goal of HVAC system is to provide a fresh and comfortable environment for its users. Becoming more popular to builders, these systems use fresh air from outdoors to supply a kind of high air to indoor units. HVAC provides different kinds of air conditioning systems for houses and industries, like split, VRF, chiller, and ducted system. The V in HVAC stands for ventilation, which is the process of air exchanging and removing moisture from indoors. Tritech is the leading company in Bangladesh in the HVAC sector.
How is HVAC related to pharmaceuticals?
The requirement of HVAC is one of the most important concerns in the design of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. HVAC system helps the pharmaceutical industry with potential safety, product quality, and good manufacturing practice (GMP). The objective of HVAC system makes sure the quality of air handling units, ventilation units, and exhaust units, which are qualified to perform in pharmaceutical industry. Besides, central air conditioning units, there is plenty of work HVAC performing in pharmaceutical companies.
Importance of HVAC system in Pharmaceutical industry:
In pharmaceutical manufacturing process, HVAC system plays an important role in maintaining the indoor environment with preferable temperature, humidity, and air quality. The main challenge for pharmaceutical industry is to keep up with its production and maintain enviroment. HVAC system plays an important role to keep up the environment updated.
- Prevent Cross Contamination: Movement of harmful bacteria from one person or product to another causes cross contamination. Its hamper the productivity and product quality. The reasons behind cross contamination are poor design, defective areas, inappropriate ventilation, lighting, and air filtration. HVAC systems can reduce this problem with proper handling.
- Control temperature: Standard temperature for any pharmaceutical factory is between 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. It must be a continuous flow of air at this temperature.
- Control Humidity: The ideal relative humidity of pharmaceutical industry is not more than 55+5%. If this relative humidity is not specific it causes metal corrosion, decrease microbial growth,
- Control Pressure: Air always moves from high pressure to low pressure area, so particular pressure has restricted the travel of particles from lower clean area to cleaner area.
- Control air borne particles: Air borne particles are micro size bacteria present in the air. For pharmaceutical industry, air borne particles can create contamination in the cleanroom.
HVAC system in pharmaceutical industry?
The environment of pharmaceutical companies is sensitive. Temperature, humidity, and pressure have to be maintained for continuous production. Some areas in pharmaceutical factory needs high maintenance, HVAC system helps pharmaceutical industries to achieve this criteria.
- Clean room: Pharmaceutical industries maintain a high level of cleanlines in their clean room. Cleanrooms maintain a controlled environment that saves pharmaceutical products from contamination like dust, airborne, microorganisms particles.
- Stability testing chamber: Pharmaceutical factories are testing medicine and drugs in stability testing chambers to check the standard of products. Ensuring product quality and product safety for patients.
Challenges for HVAC in pharmaceutical?
Pharmaceutical industries’ environments are under surveillance for 24 hours. The product will be hampered if there is any accident, or any change in the temperature, humidity, pressure, or any other requirements. There are some challenges to maintaining the pharmaceutical industry with its proper requirements.
- Understanding cleanrooms work: Many people think that having the right number of air changes is all they need to do to make a room clean. If you are up on cleanroom design and standards, you’d know that air-change rate has been released as a single critical parameter in cleanroom design. You have to control other criteria for example pressure and humidity.
- Understanding how air filters work: If you understand the filter mechanics, it’s easy to explain that air filters offer good protection against tiny particles like airborne bacteria. The pandemic has started to raise awareness of this. In the pharmaceutical factory the understanding of air filters to remove airborne bacteria.
- Understanding the process: The process is important in manufacturing facilities. HVAC is the handler of the process. Creating an environment that, at worst, won’t decrease the quality of the product and, at best, contributes to the quality of the product. If the HVAC system doesn’t provide the particular process, then the cost of the HVAC system will be wasted.
Why do we need HVAC for pharmaceutical?
- Maintenance of proper conditions for manufacture: In pharmaceutical companies, the productivity rate depends on the humidity, cleanliness, temperature and maintain these requirements at the same time. HVAC system can provide these requirements at the same time and maintain the manufacturing rate.
- Measurement of humidity directly: The moisture exist in the present air get consumed and determined by a synthetic process. The difference between initial and final humidity is the measurement of humidity. This way of measuring humidity is efficient and time consuming.
- Dehumidification humidity removal: Dehumidification is a process where moist air contact with cold surface is removed from the air. In pharmaceutical industry, the production is going under a particular temperature and humidity. So, there would be an emergency for removing moisture air directly. The dehumidification would be a great help then.
HVAC system efficiency in pharmaceutical industry:
HVAC system increases the efficiency of a pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing and maintaining product quality. First and foremost, pharmaceutical factory need to maintain a constant temperature of all-time indoor units for manufacturing and storing the product. HVAC system provides this service with its most common product industrial air conditioning. Cross contamination spoiled the product and its quality. HVAC system prevents that also. Pharmaceutical factory need to monitor temperature, humidity, and pressure all the time. HVAC system confirms that criteria to remain the productivity.
Tritech product and projects for pharmaceutical industry:
Tritech is one of the leading company in HVAC sector in Bangladesh. Tritech work with many projects throughout the world and now working on 700 plus projects. Tritech has also experience working with pharmaceutical industry with their HVAC system. Two of them are
INCEPTA PHARMACEUTICALS and RAK PHARMACEUTICAL PVT. LTD. Tritech serve them with its most popular HVAC product Midea VRF, which is an industrial air conditioning. Midea produces sustainable and suitable VRF air conditioners for heating and cooling.Tritech sells Midea VRF V6 and Midea VRF VX in HVAC market.
At last,
Pharmaceutical companies contain a very sensitive production environment than any other industry. The environment needs to be under control 24 hours. HVAC system provides heating, ventilation, air conditioning system to keep any industries environment work-friendly, productive, and reduce waste of energy. As pharmaceutical companies are providing medicine and drug for the people the companies need to be in a control. Tritech is a company which always thinks of people’s services and we are promised to people that give them the best service directly or indirectly via servicing other industries like pharmaceutical.
