Hurricane HR System to Capture Pharmaceutical Waste Particles from the combined flow of a Deduster and a Tablet press machine for Product waste compliance
Advanced Cyclone Systems (ACS), designed and supplied a total of 10 Hurricane Cyclones for Actavis Elizabeth LLC a former subsidiary of Allergan, pic. In August 2016, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd bought Allergan`s generic business ("Actavis Generics") to strengthen their position in the US and global generic market*.
ACS has already supplied Teva directly back in 2012 with a Hurricane cyclone to improve a pharmaceutical product recovery after a spray drying process for their India manufacturing center in Gajraula.
For Actavis, ACS supplied 10 cyclones to capture pharmaceutical waste particles in the exhaust air stream from each tablet press room. After the installation of the first cyclone system in 2015, Actavis ordered 9 more at the beginning of 2016 in two different sizes for the two sizes of tablet presses.
Identifying The Problem And Solution
Actavis Elizabeth LLC has a central aspiration dedusting system that combines the exhaust air flow from all tablet press rooms into a single barrier filter to capture the waste product from the pressing operation.
Having a cyclone system in each room allows Actavis to isolate the waste powder of each tablet press and dedusting set individually, making it possible to detemine the waste of each machine separatly.
To design the most compact system with the highest removal efficiency, Actavis provided the operating conditions and a sample of the pharmaceutical powder to ACS. Using ACS`s numerical simulation tool - PACyc (Particle Agglomeration in Cyclones), ACS designed 8 systems HR_TM0275 for the smaller tablet presses and 2 systems HR.TM04OO for the larger ones.
The system is comprised by a cyclone in AISI 316L, a catch pot in the same material with sight glass and a support structure with wheels for easy mobility. All pieces are attached with quick clamps for easy assembly. An additional quick clamp with 2 blind flanges is supplied to isolate the catch pot and the cyclone when they are separated for the catch pot to be emptied.