The Honeyman Group has installed its first HydroGienic pure water distribution system at UK contract pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging company, Dales Pharmaceuticals, based in Skipton, North Yorkshire.
HydroGienic applies a parallel delivery system through small-bore PTFE hoses, which connects off-takes in parallel instead of through a conventional stainless steel re-circulating loop. This parallel delivery system allows for the simple isolation of individual off-takes to enable their addition, modification or removal without the inconvenience of an entire system shutdown. Honeyman claims this modularity is unique in water system technology.
Any combination of off-takes can be used simultaneously, providing complete diversity without compromising flow rates no matter how large the system.
HydroGienic also uses a reverse flow principle for hydraulic balancing, which allows a long distance of hose to be run at small bores and pressures lower than 10 bar.
The use of the small-bore hoses to deliver pure water around the manufacturing facility minimises the rigorous installation, inspection and qualification procedures required by welded stainless steel systems and significantly reduces the need for degreasing and passivation, the company says.
Dales is using the purified water generated and distributed by HydroGienic for the production of pharmaceuticals, washing manufacturing equipment and facility cleansing.
Trevor Honeyman, chairman of The Honeyman Group said: "The design of HydroGienic means that project and installation timescales are massively reduced."
Mike Annice, md of Dales Pharmaceuticals, added: "It's a flexible system that can easily be increased in capacity as the business continues to grow, which can be achieved at reasonable cost.
"The increased capacity of the system and the improvements in the quality of the water supply to the manufacturing department will provide us with the biggest benefit."
