An energy-based population-balance approach to model granule growth and breakage in high-shear wet granulation processes

AUTOR(ES)

Dhanarajan, Anish P.

FONTE

Springer-Verlag

RESUMO

A mathematical model of high shear wet granulation is proposed, where granule breakage, and not growth, is the dominant process. The energy required for granule breakage is assumed to be provided by the impact of granules between themselves and the granulator parts, and the extent of granule breakage determined by the balance between the impactenergy and the work of adhesion between the agglomerating particles. A specific volume of dry powder per unit crack surface area was allowed to reattach to the surface of broken granules to account for granule growth. To verify proposed model conditions, lactose monohydrate was granulated with a relatively low amount (6%) of the binder phase, polyvinyl-pyrrolidone and water, and was added to the powder before granulation.

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