Types of Purified Water Systems in Pharmaceuticals

Pure water is used as a solvent and ingredient for formulation in many pharmaceutical processes. The water used in such procedures needs to meet the standard quality for purified water.

 

Pure water for pharmaceutical use should not contain impurities and microbes which might cause contamination of products. Therefore, industrial water purification systems employ a number of processes such as distillation, filtration, reverse osmosis and ion exchange to purify water.

 

Of the above, ion exchange, reverse osmosis and distillation are used most prominently in pure water systems across the industry verticals. Ion exchange involves separation of water-soluble undesirable ions and exchanging those ions with desirable ones.

 

RO systems are designed to control bacteria and use pressure to reverse the natural osmotic flow to produce pure water for pharmaceutical use.