Levin How to Scale Up a Wet Granulation End Point Scientifically

Volume 1
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-803560-3
Verlag: Academic Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Expertise in Pharmaceutical Process Technology

How to Scale-Up a Wet Granulation End Point Scientifically provides a single-source devoted to all relevant information on the scale-up of a wet granulation end point. Contents include a general description, problem identification, and theoretical background with supporting literature, case studies, potential solutions, and more. By outlining issues related to scale-up and end-point determination, and then using practical examples and advice to address these issues, How to Scale-Up a Wet Granulation End Point Scientifically is a valuable and essential resource for all those pharmaceutical scientists and technologists engaged in the granulation process. - Thoroughly referenced and based on the latest research and literature - Part of the Expertise in Pharmaceutical Process Technology Series edited by internationally respected expert, Michael Levin - Illustrates the most common problems related to scale-up of a wet granulation end point and provides valuable insights on how to solve these problems in a practical way

Michael Levin has over 30 years of experience in the field of pharmaceutical scale-up, instrumentation and process optimization. He has edited a 'Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up book, and has contributed chapters on 'Tablet Press Instrumentation" and 'Wet Granulation: End-Point Determination and Scale-Up" in the Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology. Michael holds a M.Sc. degree in History and Philosophy of Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ph.D. in BioMathematics (1980) from University of Washington in Seattle. His Post Doctorate studies were at University of Houston, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He participated in numerous wet and dry granulation and tableting projects in major pharmaceutical companies as a provider of process analytical instrumentation, conducted many seminars, performed numerous consulting services and wrote expert reports to clients in the pharmaceutical industry."

Zielgruppe

Pharmaceutical personnel from R&D professionals to team leaders and department heads; those working in nutraceutical and generic manufacturing companies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Scale-Up Basics
2. Dimensional Analysis, Principle of Similitude, Dimensionless Numbers, Comparison of attainable Froude Numbers
3. Scientific scale-up procedure
4. Case Studies
5. Practical Considerations for End-Point Scale-Up
6. List of Symbols and Dimensions, Literature Reference