Review of noninvasive methods to characterize granular mixing

H Nadeem, TJ Heindel - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Granular mixing is a common process observed in a variety of industries such as
construction, chemical processing, food handling, and cosmetics and pharmaceutical …

Model-based scale-up methodologies for pharmaceutical granulation

EH Jang, YS Park, MS Kim, DH Choi - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the pharmaceutical industry, it is a major challenge to maintain consistent quality of drug
products when the batch scale of a process is changed from a laboratory scale to a pilot or …

Flow of granular materials in a bladed mixer: Effect of particle properties and process parameters on impeller torque and power consumption

V Boonkanokwong, RP Frank, P Valliappan… - Advanced powder …, 2018 - Elsevier
The torque and power needed to drive an impeller are important quantities that can indicate
flow behavior and can be used to control processes, especially mixing and granulation in …

Collapse and runout of granular columns in pendular state

AC Santomaso, S Volpato, F Gabrieli - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
It is well known that even small amounts of liquid can strongly modify the mechanical
behavior of granular packings in static and dynamic conditions. This experimental work …

Scale-up and flow behavior of cohesive granular material in a four-bladed mixer: effect of system and particle size

V Boonkanokwong, JG Khinast, BJ Glasser - Advanced Powder …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flow of cohesive granular materials with different moisture contents was examined in a four-
bladed mixer via the discrete element method (DEM). Firstly, the mixer diameter (D) was …

Lubricant sensitivity in function of paddle movement in the forced feeder of a high-speed tablet press

E Peeters, V Vanhoorne, C Vervaet… - Drug Development and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Context: The negative impact of magnesium stearate (MgSt) on the hardness of tablets is a
well-known phenomenon, but the influence of paddle movement in the forced feeder on the …

Multivariate feed forward process control and optimization of an industrial, granulation based tablet manufacturing line using historical data

R Mathe, T Casian, I Tomuţă - International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work was to understand the variability in disintegration time and
tableting yield of high drug load (> 60%) tablets prepared by batch-wise high shear wet …

Drag in wet granular materials

R Artoni, G Loro, P Richard, F Gabrieli… - Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
We have studied experimentally the effect of the water content on the drag force applied by a
wet granular system on a probe moving through it at constant velocity. Similar to what has …

Shear rate dependency on flowing granular biomass material

Y Lu, W Jin, J Klinger, N Saha, Y Xia, S Dai - Powder Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The commercialization of bioenergy has been significantly limited by various material
handling issues due to the poor flowability of granular biomass materials. Addressing these …

Dimensionless criteria as a tool for creation of a model for predicting the size of granules in high-shear granulation

O Macho, J Kabát, Ľ Gabrišová, P Peciar… - Particulate Science …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This work deals with the creation of a mathematical model which will predict with sufficient
accuracy the size of granules in the high-shear granulation process. The aim of the paper …