An important component of designing and operating an active-pharmaceutical-ingredient (API) batch plant is the treatment of all the offgas and waste generated from it. Preferred solutions to handle fluctuating gas and waste streams from such systems are incineration plants with integrated heat recovery and fluegas treatment. This firm has analyzed the typical offgas amount and composition from a standard 10–16-m3 batch reactor system, with a product portfolio in other company plants around the globe, and used this information to write a user-required specification with the basic design for its Nansha plant. The incinerator handles a nominal offgas flowrate of 1,400 m3/h with a maximum water content of 1,500 kg/h, a nominal (maximum) calorific value of the residue of 18 MJ/kg (43 MJ/kg), and a nominal thermal capacity of 7,200 kW. Stand 23H – Lonza Engineering Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
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