The impact of static electricity on the pharmaceutical industry
We are all saying that static electricity has varying degrees of impact on all walks of life, but what we know most from work contact is nothing more than some electronics factories. Did you know that static electricity will also affect the pharmaceutical industry? In fact, the main hazard of static electricity to the pharmaceutical industry is adsorption.
Because in the production process, there is a lot of static electricity in the drug or drug container due to friction, which causes the dust in the air to adsorb on it, affecting the quality and pass rate of the product, so in the production of drugs and the maintenance of drug containers Static electricity must be effectively eliminated during the cleaning process to improve product quality.
Methods and equipment used to eliminate static electricity:
For the special industry of pharmaceuticals, in order to improve the quality of products, the dust on the products must be eliminated, but the dust is adsorbed on it due to static electricity, so the static electricity must be eliminated before dust removal.
At present, there are many static electricity removal equipment on the market, among which the most common ones for the pharmaceutical industry are: static electricity ion air gun, static ion air nozzle, static ion bar, etc.
Here is a brief description of the application of the above static electricity removal equipment in its pharmaceutical industry:
In addition to static ion air nozzle:
It is mainly used in the automatic medicine bottle cleaning process. During the medicine bottle cleaning process, high static electricity is generated due to the friction of water on it, which will lead to a large amount of dust adsorption inside the bottle. It is an automatic equipment, so the ion air nozzle must be installed under the bottle mouth in a fixed way. When the bottle passes over the ion air nozzle, the ion air nozzle will generate a strong ion airflow and flow into the bottle. Also remove the dust inside.
In addition to static ion air gun:
It is mainly used in the process of semi-automatic or manual medicine bottle cleaning. Its working principle and method are basically the same as the ion air nozzle. The difference is that the ion air gun cannot be fixed and is generally used for manual operation. Let employees hold the bottle in one hand and the Ion air gun to eliminate static electricity and dust in the bottle.
In addition to static ion bar:
Because of the particularity of the product (there cannot be any external wind source or air flow), the non-air source type ion bar is used. The ion bar is generally installed on the conveyor belt during the delivery of the medicine particles. Because the pharmaceutical industry is in the process of transport and Static electricity is generated by friction between the air and the conveyor belt. After the static electricity is generated, it starts to absorb the dust in the air, so the ion bar is installed to eliminate static electricity for its products during the transmission process.
The size of the ion bar can be customized according to the width of the conveyor belt. Then the number of ion bars can be determined according to the length of the conveyor belt.
The rod is installed at a distance of 1.5-3.0cm from the drug, and the static electricity on the product surface is eliminated when the product passes under the ion rod.