The pharmaceutical industry is an industry of great importance to the national and international levels to research, and the development of medicines that are classified in different categories according to their purposes, and properties, such as the reference, generic and similar, - the-COUNTER, prescribed, monitored and organic.

In Brazil, there are more than 200 companies, approved by the FDA for the manufacture of medicinal products, concentrated especially in the States of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where they are located major corporations, research institutes, and universities, according to the Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, the Research sector that generates about 118 thousand direct jobs and more than 600 thousand indirect employees, with an annual turnover of 72 billion, while the overall offering of 4.7 million jobs, making more than 200 million us dollars per year.

Water is one of the most important elements of the process of the manufacture of medicinal products, and this fluid is heated in the operations and needs to be cooled, and the cooling water plays an essential role for this purpose.