Characteristics of
Pharmaceutical Wastewater
Due to the complexity of the pharmaceutical processes and the variety of raw materials, antibiotic wastewater, synthetic drug wastewater, traditional Chinese medicine wastewater and various cleaning wastewater will be produced during their productions.
The wastewater has the following characteristics: the concentration of residual reactants, products, solvents, suspended solids, salts and catalysts in the water is high, the COD concentration may reach hundreds of thousands of mg/l, and the pH has high volatility. In addition, most antibiotics in chemical pharmaceutical wastewater are designed to be highly structurally stable and lipophilic, which will cause serious acute toxicity to life. These are the reasons why it is difficult to purify chemical and pharmaceutical wastewater.