Quality Control New Activated Carbon Depth Filter Media Ensures Product Quality

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Eaton’s Beco Carbon ACF 03 grade, a new activated carbon depth filter media from the firm’s Beco Carbon range helps to ensure product quality in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production.

The right activated carbon sheet for every application–especially when maximum safety and product quality are required: With the new Beco Carbon ACF 03 grade, Eaton is responding to the growing demand for user-friendly activated carbon sheets tested for endotoxins for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical applications, fine chemicals and other industries. Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing processes in particular demand the strong capabilities of activated carbon depth filter sheets for decolorization and adsorptive separation of undesired byproducts. In these processes, users benefit from the fact that Beco Carbon ACF 03 activated carbon depth filter sheets meet USP Class VI testing requirements and a Validation Guide, shares the company.

The depth filter sheets, with activated carbon bound in the filter, are available in various designs and sizes, including stacked disc cartridges, flat sheets, and disposable capsules. These different designs facilitate the work for laboratory and preproduction trials, and the results can be transferred to full scale production using the same activated carbon depth filter media. The range of filter areas available enables ideal adaptation to the respective batch size and therefore optimizing process costs, adds the firm.

In the Becodisc BC stacked disc cartridge with Beco Carbon grade ACF 03, materials such as polypropylene (PP) or polyamide (PA) are processed for a wide range of applications, and gaskets made of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (E-PTFE) ensure notably high chemical resistance to critical solvents, mentions the company.

Suitable activated carbon sheets for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical applications

With its mesoporous to microporous adsorption range, the acid-washed, steam-activated carbon in Beco Carbon ACF 03 depth filter sheets is used to decolorize medium stains (yellow to yellowish) and remove organic impurities such as endotoxins. According to the firm, this spectrum is particularly relevant in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sector for the production of antibiotics and active ingredient solutions or for the processing of blood plasma. The demand for depth filter sheets containing activated carbon is high in many industries. For this reason, the Beco Carbon range is also used in the production of food supplements and beverages, plant extracts and cosmetic ingredients, or in process water treatment and fine chemicals production.

With the launch of the Beco Carbon ACF 03 grade, filtration solutions for macroporous, mesoporous and microporous adsorption areas are now available across the entire Beco Carbon range.

Tested quality increases safety and product quality

Beco Carbon ACF 03 depth filter sheets have been tested for endotoxin content and meets USP biocompatibility tests for highest safety and product quality (USP Class VI). The bonded activated carbon with a large inner surface area of up to 2,000 m2/g ensures high reliability and convenience of use. Thanks to the precisely defined activated carbon content in the filter material, high, reproducible product quality and filtration performance are guaranteed. The time-consuming and demanding dosing of powdered activated carbon in a containment area is no longer necessary, concludes the company.

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