Pharmaceutical Wastewater Ozonation at Industrial Scale

The pharmaceutical production industries generate wastewaters that should be properly treated because in some cases they are highly toxic. For this reason the safe inactivation before disposing them into the environment must be guarantee. This paper deals with an ozone treatment system for the wastewaters generated in the cytostatic production. The cytostatics present in the wastewaters treatment were 5-fluorouracil, methotrexate, doxorubicin and cytarabine. The treated wastewaters fulfilled the parameters established in the Cuban guidelines for disposal. This treatment system was able to inactivate cytostatic wastewaters in an efficient way. It is viable economically and it does not produce harmful wastes to the environment.