Welcome to our stand No 10 at the 15th Conference & Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society ECerS2017 July 9-13, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. We look forward meeting with you and to discuss how we could support you with Freeze Granulation of your powder material for to make homogeneous granules for the manufacturing of high quality ceramics.
Fabrication of transparent MgAl2O4 spinel via spray freeze drying of microfluidized slurry
Ha-Neul Kim, Jin-Myung Kim, Mi-Ju Kim, Jae-Woong Ko, Young-Jo Park, Kisu Lee, Doo Hyun Choi
Spherical granules were prepared from a monodispersed slurry by combining the microfluidization (MF) method and the spray freeze-drying (SFD) process. Starting with the prepared granules, transparent MgAl2O4 ceramics were fabricated through pressureless sintering followed by hot isostatic pressing. A comparison with a polydispersed slurry prepared by the ball-milling method showed successful fabrication of a mono-dispersed state by microfluidization method, and 80% visible in-line transmittance was obtained at a 600-nm wavelength from a process starting with a monodispersed slurry of low solid content. Microstructural analysis of the green bodies, the pre-sintered bodies, and the hot isostatic pressed bodies of the prepared MgAl2O4 ceramics revealed that the slurry dispersion should be controlled to a high level in order to suppress scattering sources such as pores and microcracks, which affect the in-line transmittance of visible light.
Transparent; MgAl2O4; Spray freeze drying; Freeze granulation; Microfluidization
Large porous particles for respiratory drug delivery. Glycine-based formulations
A.G. Ogienko, E.G. Bogdanova, N.A. Trofimov, S.A. Myz, A.A. Ogienko, B.A. Kolesov, A.S. Yunoshev, N.V. Zubikov, A.Yu. Manakov, V.V. Boldyrev, E.V. Boldyreva
Large porous particles are becoming increasingly popular as carriers for pulmonary drug delivery with both local and systemic applications. These particles have high geometric diameters (5–30 μm) but low bulk density (~ 0.1 g/cm3 or less) such that the aerodynamic diameter remains low (1–5 μm). In this study salbutamol and budesonide serve as model inhalable drugs with poor water solubility. A novel method is proposed for the production of dry powder inhaler formulations with enhanced aerosol performance (e.g. for salbutamol-glycine formulation the fine particle fraction (FPF ≤ 4.7 μm) value is 67.0 ± 1.3%) from substances that are poorly soluble in water. To overcome the problems related to extremely poor aqueous solubility of the APIs, not individual solvents are used for spray freeze-drying of API solutions, but organic-water mixtures, which can form clathrate hydrates at low temperatures and release APIs or their complexes as fine powders, which form large porous particles after the clathrates are removed by sublimation. Zwitterionic glycine has been used as an additive to API directly in solutions prior to spray freeze-drying, in order to prevent aggregation of powders, to enhance their dispersibility and improve air-flow properties. The clathrate-forming spray freeze-drying process in the multi-component system was optimized using low-temperature powder X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis.
Spray freeze-drying, salbutamol, budesonide, glycine, clathrate hydrates, dry powder inhaler formulation, large porous particles
Review on novel granulation techniques
Nayan Patil, S. C. Khadse, P. P. Ige
Tablets are the generally use dosage form, suitable to long-suffering observance, stretch in dose routine as well as design of dosage form. Pharmaceutical tablets be process every one in excess of the humanity use direct-compression, wet and dry granulation. The process choose depends on the ingredient entity description also aptitude towards surge suitably, compact, throw out with collapse. Selecting correct granulation way require systematic study of every component into the method, mixture of ingredient and their interaction. Exhaustive research is going on different novel granulation techniques that are able of replacing traditional granulation techniques as they have advantages of being cost-effective and high yielding. The object of their article is towards centre of attention lying on the novel granulation tools similar to pneumatic dry granulation, freeze granulation, Granurex® technology and so on.
Pneumatic dry granulation, melt granulation, nucleation, Granurex®.
Saboti D, Maver U, Chan HK, Planinšek O
Budesonide (BDS) is a potent active pharmaceutical ingredient, often administered using respiratory devices such as metered dose inhalers, nebulizers, and dry powder inhalers. Inhalable drug particles are conventionally produced by crystallization followed by milling. This approach tends to generate partially amorphous materials that require post-processing to improve the formulations’ stability. Other methods involve homogenization or precipitation and often require the use of stabilizers, mostly surfactants. The purpose of this study was therefore to develop a novel method for preparation of fine BDS particles using a microfluidic reactor coupled with ultrasonic spray freeze drying, and hence avoiding the need of additional homogenization or stabilizer use. A T-junction microfluidic reactor was employed to produce particle suspension (using an ethanol-water, methanol-water, and an acetone-water system), which was directly fed into an ultrasonic atomization probe, followed by direct feeding to liquid nitrogen. Freeze drying was the final preparation step. The result was fine crystalline BDS powders which, when blended with lactose and dispersed in an Aerolizer at 100 L/min, generated fine particle fraction in the range 47.6% ± 2.8% to 54.9% ± 1.8%, thus exhibiting a good aerosol performance. Subsequent sample analysis confirmed the suitability of the developed method to produce inhalable drug particles without additional homogenization or stabilizers. The developed method provides a viable solution for particle isolation in microfluidics in general.
DPI; aerosol; budesonide; dry powder inhalation; formulation; microfluidic reactor; particle isolation; powder technology; pulmonary drug delivery; ultrasonic spray freeze drying
We would like to thank all visitors for interesting discussion at our stand at the Ceramics Expo 2017.
Here Kent explain the benifit of Freeze Granulation how to make spherical and homogeneous granules for pressing.
We have had a successful exhibition at the Ceramics Expo 2017 in Cleveland, OH. Many good and interesting discussions on how to apply Freeze Granulation on diffrent Ceramic powder systems.
Today is the last day of three, if you are here come and say hello at our stand No 126.
Jae-Young Her, Kwang-Geun Lee
The analgesic and physical properties of acetaminophen powder suitable as an inhaled drug produced by spray freeze-drying (SFD) were compared with those of raw acetaminophen. A laser particle size analyzer and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were applied to estimate physical structure and properties of the particles. A cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor screening assay was used to compare the antipyretic and analgesic activity of raw and SFD acetaminophen. According to SEM, SFD acetaminophen particles had various shapes and sizes with porous structures. The optimized conditions for solvent, annealing temperature, and annealing time were water/ethanol mixture (60% water and 40% ethanol), −40°C, and 7 h, respectively. The diameter of optimized acetaminophen powder was 7.33 µm, and the aerodynamic particle size was 3.38 µm. The antipyretic and analgesic activities of acetaminophen after SFD were from 84.3 to 97.1% for COX-1 and from 91.6 to 102.9% for COX-2 compared to those of raw acetaminophen, respectively.
Acetaminophen, inhaled drug, optimized solvent, powder process, spray freeze-drying
Spray freeze granulation of submicrometre α-alumina using ultrasonicati
S. Ghanizadeh, P. Ramanujam, B. Vaidhyanathan, J. Binner
Granulation is a key factor towards improvement of the flowability of fine ceramic powders to make them suitable for industrial dry pressing. Controlled granulation of fine alumina particles with a primary particle size of ∼ 150 nm was carried out using spray-freeze drying, which led to the production of flowable granules with high crushability. The fracture surface of uniaxially die-pressed green bodies made from granules with density values of ≥ 50 % of theoretical showed a uniform microstructure. Sintering experiments were performed using conventional single- and two-stage radiant heating methods followed by density and grain size measurement and characterisation of the final dense compacts to study the efficiency of two-stage sintering in grain growth elimination. The results have been compared with those of alumina bodies prepared using similar suspension by the slip-casting route.
Alumina, granulation, spray-freeze drying, two-stage sintering
