The pharmaceutical manufacturing requires specialist heat transfer fluids for precise temperature control across the cooling and heating phases. This is where adoption of advanced industrial burners needed to improve the efficiency and safety in pharma operations, said Dhruv Goyal, MD, De Novo.
A burner mixes fuel and air using a flaming device which provides a platform for combustion. Over the recent years, huge strides have been made in the area of burner technology and its associated controls. These developments have resulted in engineering burners that offer the foremost correct management of the fuel or air magnitude throughout the burner target range and extended flip down magnitude relation with low levels of excess air and the highest practicable operating efficiency, he added.
Now, older process heating systems can often be given a new lease of life by replacing the burner with one of the latest models, not only extending the life of the system but also improving capability and protection, he noted.
Nowadays many companies design and deliver unique solutions for pharmaceuticals process heating. It helps drug manufacturers to combine the medicinally active agents taken from the fine chemicals plant, or extraction from vegetable, animal or different sources, with inactive ingredients so that the product may be utilized in the right quantity to provide the desired result. Thus, pharmaceuticals may be liquids or emulsions to be taken as oral solids to be swallowed, or combined with oil or fats to make creams and ointments for external applications, Goyal told Pharmabiz in a discussion on the role of burners in pharma industry.
To this end, drug production units utilize a high-pressure steam application process. These applications are often used either for indirect heating or direct heating. Combustion industry offers high pressure and efficient boiler solutions. The pharmaceutical boiler solutions are flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the industry.
In the case of direct heating where steam is directly infused into the medium a high quality burner delivers the highest purity of steam to ensure that the substance that is to be heated will be safe for human consumption.
Indirect heating uses heat exchangers with steam. It prevents the steam from coming into physical contact with the product. The products achieve indirect heating through the use of a wide array of equipment like jacketed vessels, cookers, and heat exchangers.
Moreover pharmaceuticals companies require healthier air quality inside the manufacturing plants. However, during the colder months, this air requirement causes the temperatures in the building to substantially fall. But it is the innovative high-pressure steam of the burner applications which is able to produce the proper temperatures to increase production efficiencies, he said.
Now De Novo offers turnkey solutions in burners that are significantly suitable for several purposes including gas burner, light oil burner, heavy oil burner, fuel burners, industrial burners, among others. Here the heat transfer fluids provide a cost-efficient process for many manufacturing operations in the plastic industries too. It is often used within specialized equipment or as part of modular heating units, allowing for continuous temperature control, said Goyal.
