Application 01
Ethanol dehydration to fuel grade or pharma grade
Selective water removal beyond the 95.6% azeotrope without entrainers. Pharma-grade systems include full IQ/OQ/PQ documentation and compliant materials of construction.
Industry · Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
plants and separation, end to end.
Pharmaceutical and life-sciences projects need both the sanitary fabrication and the membrane chemistry to recover expensive solvents. We build sanitary 316L vessels and skids with full IQ/OQ/PQ documentation, and we deploy our own pervaporation and vapor permeation systems for solvent dehydration, azeotrope breaking, and VOC capture, including the azeotropic mixtures that distillation cannot break. API manufacturing, fine chemicals, solvent recovery, and process-water purification.
What you get
Outcomes our customers see.
Specific to pharmaceuticals & life sciences. Verified on real projects. The numbers below come from work we have shipped, not data sheets.
- Solvent recovery rate
- 98 to 99.8%
- Independently verified on isopropanol, ethanol, methanol, and acetonitrile feeds.
- Energy vs distillation
- 1/4 to 1/2
- No phase change penalty; pervaporation runs near ambient temperature.
- Azeotropes broken
- EtOH/water, IPA/water, and more
- Selective membranes separate compositions that distillation cannot.
- GMP-ready documentation
- Materials of construction, IQ/OQ/PQ packages, and validation support included.
Featured case study
One project, in detail.
How the work shows up on a pharmaceuticals & life sciences site.
Applications
Where we deploy.
What we deliver.
The specific scopes and separation problems we solve for pharmaceuticals & life sciences operators.
Application 02
Isopropanol recovery from cleaning streams
Recover IPA from wash water at 99% purity for reuse in production. Most installations pay back in 12 to 18 months on solvent purchase savings alone.
Application 03
Acetonitrile recovery from chromatography waste
Concentrate and recover acetonitrile from HPLC waste streams. The economics are strong because acetonitrile is expensive to buy and expensive to dispose.
Application 04
API process solvent recovery
Recover process solvents from mother liquors with full validation support. Custom membrane chemistries for solvents that off-the-shelf systems cannot handle.
Application 05
GMP-grade dehydration
Sanitary skid construction, double mechanical seals, full traceability of wetted parts. Same separation chemistry, GMP-compatible execution.
Fabrication scope
What we build for this sector.
Sanitary stainless construction with FDA-compatible elastomers, double mechanical seals, and full traceability. We build to GMP expectations with IQ/OQ/PQ documentation as standard.
Membrane
Membrane plant fabrication
In-house fabrication of our productized AQUA-SEP®, VOC-SEP®, and AZEO-SEP® systems.
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Skids
Skid-mounted process systems
Modular process and utility skids, engineered, packaged, and shipped ready to commission.
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Vessels
Pressure vessels & tanks
Code-stamped pressure equipment, separators, columns, reactors, and storage tanks.
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Engineering
Engineering & design
Process engineering, FEED, P&IDs, and fabrication drawings to support build scope.
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Membrane technologies
The right process for the fluid.
Pharmaceutical applications usually narrow to two technologies. Pervaporation handles bulk water removal from liquid solvent streams; vapor permeation polishes vapor-phase streams. We design hybrids of the two when the customer's spec demands both bulk and final purity in one system.
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