waste management in pharmaceutical industry

1. Waste Management in
Pharmaceutical Industry
Presented By
Md. Mohsin (NUB)
Md. Sahab Uddin (SEU)
Md. Manir Ahmed (BU)

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1. Introduction
2. Sources of Pharmaceutical waste
3. Types of pharmaceutical waste
4. Solid waste treatment
Outline
5. Liquid waste treatment
6. Chemical & biological
treatment
7. References

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Introduction
Waste management is the generation, prevention,
characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse
and residual disposition of solid and liquid wastes.

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Consequences of improper management
 Endocrine Disruptors
 Low sperm counts
 Neurological disorders in children
 Developmental & reproductive problems in
wildlife

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Sources of Pharmaceutical waste
Waste
Sources
Passed
recommended
shelf-life
Discarded due to
contaminated
packaging
Waste generated
during the
manufacture
No longer required
by the public

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Types of pharmaceutical waste
According to -
Physical
Nature Degradability
Human
Health and
the
Environment

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Solid waste treatment
1. Incineration
2. Scrubbing
3.Landfill

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Liquid waste treatment
Liquid wastes are
treated in effluent
treatment plant (ETP)
Chemical
treatment
Biological
treatment

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Chemical treatment
. Effluent
from
production
area
Screening
chamber
Raw effluent
tank
Oil & grease
separation
Flush mixer Flocculation Equilization
Primary
clarification
Sludge holding tank
Sludge
drying bed
Liquid waste

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Biological treatment
Liquid
waste
Moving bed
biological reactor 1
Secondary
clarification 1
Moving bed
biological reactor 2
Secondary
clarification 2
PSF PUMP
Sand filter
Activated
Carbon filter
Water tank 1
Activated
Carbon filter
Water tank 2
Liquid
discharge to
environment

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Different parameters tested after treatment
Standard
Parameters
Sulphide:
< 2 mg/L
pH: 6-9
BOD:
< 50 mg/L
COD:
< 200 mg/L
DO:
4.5-8
Chloride:
< 600 mg/L

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References
 United States EPA, Pollution Prevention Fact Sheet, Washington, DC,March 1991.
 Keoleian, G., and D. Menerey, “Sustainable Development by Design: Reviewof Life
Cycle Design and Related Approaches,” Air & Waste, 44, May 1994.
 Theodore, L. Personal notes.
 Dupont, R., L. Theodore, and K. Ganesan, Pollution Prevention: The Waste
 Management Approach for the 21st Century, Lewis Publishers, 2000.
 World Wildlife Fund, Getting at the Source, 1991, p. 7.
 United States EPA, 1987 National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report—Executive
Summary, Washington, DC, GPO, 1991, p. 10.ASTM, Philadelphia, PA.
 Theodore, L., and R. Allen, Pollution Prevention: An ETS Theodore Tutorial, Roanoke,
VA, ETS International, Inc., 1993.
 United States EPA, The EPA Manual for Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessments,
Cincinnati, OH, August 1988.
 Santoleri, J., J. Reynolds, and L. Theodore, Introduction to Hazardous Waste
Incineration, 2d ed., Wiley, 2000.

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