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What do you need to consider with regards to realtive humidity?

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  • The amount of moisture in the air

- The amount of water saturated in the air (which is temeprature dependent)

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What is relative humidity expressed as?

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It is expressed as the % of vapour pressure of water vapour in air/vapour pressure of water vapour in air saturated at same group multiplied by 100

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What is the oisture content of a wet solid expressed as?

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  • Expressed as Kg moisture associated with 1Kg dry solid

- Can be expressed as %

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What is total moisture content?

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-The amount of liquid associated with a wet solid

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If the moisture content is said to be 0.5, what does this mean?

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-It means after complete drying, 0.5 Kg of water will be present per Kg of the moisture-free solid

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What is free moisture content?

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  • Easily removable water

- Unbound water

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Equilibrium moisture content is more difficult to remove and depends on environment/storage temperature, humidity and nature of solid material. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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What do you need to consider before removing all water? (is it essential?)

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  • Moisture sensitive material

- Hygroscopic material

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What do you need to consider before removing all water? (is it essential?)

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  • Moisture sensitive material

- Hygroscopic material

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What are Hygroscopic material?

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  • They are materials that readily attracts moisture from its surrounding by either absorption or adsorption
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What if he material are exposed to a humid condition?

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  • Regain moisture? check answer
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What is free moisture lost through?

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Evaporation

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Name the methods of drying?

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  • Convective drying
  • Conductive drying
  • Radiation drying
  • Spray drying
  • Freeze drying
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Name the two types of Convective drying?

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  • Static (fixed bed)

- Dynamic (fluidised bed)

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Describe static convective drying?

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-Slow drying process

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What is doen i order to speed up the static convective drying process?

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  • Turbulent air flow over the surface of drying materials (which is the rate at which vapour is removed)
  • Maintaining the air flow at certain temperature (the rate at which heat transferred)
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What is the rate of drying of static convective drying dependent on?

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  • Constant rate period

- Falling rate period

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Describe constant rate period?

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  • Linear relationship

- Drying occurs on the surface

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It is important to control the rate of heat transfer and the rate of removal of the vapour in constant rate period. TRUE OR FALSE?

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TRUE

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The end of the constant rate period=critical moisture content. Is this TRUE for the first falling rate period?

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yes

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What occurs in first falling rate period?

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  • The moisture on the solid surafe to be removed not enough to saturate the air in contact with the surface
  • Drying rate devreases
  • Capillary to pendular state
  • Heat should be reduced
  • Beware of solute migration
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What occurs in the second falling rate period?

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  • Drying can no longer take place on the surface
  • Drying the solid body of material
  • Rate dependant on removal of water vapour through te pores of the bed
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What are the advantages of dynamic convective drying?

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  • Good contact between the wet particles and the air
  • Drying from the surface of each particle, not from the bed
  • Uniform tempearture
  • Efficient drying rates with high output
  • Risk of solute migration prevented
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What are the advantages of dynamic convective drying?

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  • Good contact between the wet particles and the air
  • Drying from the surface of each particle, not from the bed
  • Uniform tempearture
  • Efficient drying rates with high output
  • Risk of solute migration prevented
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What are the disadvantages of dynamic convective drying?
-Influence of air velocity can lead to seperation of wet particles
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Describe conductive drying?
- Materials in thermal contact with a hot surface - Drying achieved by conduction - Can take place at low temperatures
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Describe the Vacuum oven in (Conductive drying)
- Static | - Not commonly used for drying in production
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Describe the Vacuum oven in (Conductive drying)
- Static | - Not commonly used for drying in production
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Describe the vacuum tumbling drier in (Conductive drying)
- Higher heat transfer than vacuum oven | - More popular than vacuum oven
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Describe Radiation drying?
- No heat transfer medium | - Heat energy transferred via radiation
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Name the two types of radiation drying?
- Infrared radiation | - Microwave radiation
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Describe infrared radiation?
- Absorbed rapidly - Shallow penetration - Not common in pharmaceutics
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Describe Microwave radiation?
- Better penetration - Rapidly drying at lower temperatures - Uniform heat transfer - Solute migration minimised - Static bed
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Spray drying provides large area for heat and mass transfer. TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
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Spray drying atomises liquid into stream of hot air. TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
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Describe spray drying?
- Droplets sprayed into stream of hot air - Droplets dry into individual solid particle - Particle formation and drying occur in one step
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In spray drying particle sixe is controlled by droplet size which is controlled by atomizer. TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
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Atomiser experiences build up of solid. TRUE OR FALSE?
FALSE
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In spray drying, AIr rotates in chamber tangentially increasing droplet residence time (drying time). TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE
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What is spray drying used for?
Almost any substance in solution or suspension e.g citric acid, strach
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What are the advantages of spray drying?
- Millions of small droplets give large surface area so evaporation is rapid - Rapid evaporation means droplets do not attain high temperatures - Uniform sized spherical particles - Characteristic particle form allows efficient packaging - Increased dissolution rate and bioavialbility of poorly water soluble drugs - Low labour costs - Can be used as a continous process
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What are the disdavantages of spray drying?
- Equipment bulky and expensive | - Thermal efficiency quite low
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What is Freeze drying used for?
-Heat sensitive materials or materials which are excessively hygroscopic
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Describe Freeze drying?
- Drying without excessive damage | - Solvent undergoes solid-gas sublimation
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What are the 4 processes of sublimation?
1. Liquid freezes 2. Pressure reduction 3. Increasing heat 4. Sublimation occurs
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What are the advantages of freeze drying?
- Low temperature drying reduces product degradation - Product is light and porous - Porous product is readily soluble - No concentration of solution prior drying - Oxidation minimized
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What are the disdavantages of freeze drying?
- Product extremely hygroscopic - need careful packaging | - Slow compliacted process
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What is solute migration?
The movement of soluble drugs or excipients to the surface of the particles during drying
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How does solute migration occur?
- As solvent being evaporated moves to the surface the dissolved solutes move with them - Results in localised concentrations of drugs/excipients at surface
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What are the disadvantages of solute migration?
- Tablets/ Granules aren't uniform | - Quality control problems
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What are the two mechanisms of granule drying?
- Intergranular migration | - Intragranular migration
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Describe intergranular migration
- Between granules - Solutes (drug/excipients) migrate granule to granule - Common in static convective drying
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Describe intragranular migration
- within individual granules - Solute moves towards pheriphery of granule leading to uneven distribution - Common in dynamic convective drying and vacuum tumbling drying
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How can migration be prevented?
- Water insoluble dyes - Increased viscosity of granulating fluid - Mninimize/optimise volume of granulating fluid - Remixing of granules prior to tableting

Clare's lectures semester 2 (10 decks)

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