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Powder Flow: Powder characterization for formulators
Tim Freeman
November 30, 2018
Accelerating product development through formulation into successful manufacture and on to the market place, is an important goal for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Powder Flow: Powder characterization for process designers and engineers
Tim Freeman
November 15, 2018
For process designers specifying new plant, the goal is to engineer equipment that will process and handle powders consistently and efficiently, as defined by the design brief.
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Powder Flow: Powder characterization for equipment manufacturers
Tim Freeman
October 22, 2018
Equipment manufacturers share with process engineers the task of specifying plant for optimal performance. For processes
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Powder Flow: Powder characterization for modern manufacturing
Tim Freeman
October 08, 2018
In this series I’ve been looking at traditional powder testing techniques, tapped density methods for example and shear analysis, to see how they fit with today’s powder processing needs.
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Powder Flow: Powder characterization for QC
Tim Freeman
September 03, 2018
Quality control, of either an intermediate material or final blend, places a unique set of demands on an analytical tool.
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Powder Flow: Tools for Powder Characterization
Tim Freeman
August 15, 2018
The potential benefits of Quality by Design, the approach enshrined in ICH Q8 - Pharmaceutical Development, include greater flexibility with respect to regulation, enhanced process efficiency and better product understanding.
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Powder Flow: Reproducible Powder Testing
Tim Freeman
July 31, 2018
Reproducibility, measurement sensitivity and the usefulness of an analysis are inextricably linked.
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Powder Flow: Reviewing the Traditional Powder Testing Toolkit
Tim Freeman
July 16, 2018
Flowability – the ease with which a powder flows – is arguably the most important characteristic of powder behavior.
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Powder Flow: Evaluating the Powder Testing Toolkit: Shear Testing
Tim Freeman
June 29, 2018
In this series of editorials I’m looking at how well the traditional powder testing toolkit meets the requirements of today’s powder processors. In the last editorial I put tapped density methods under the spotlight; and now it’s time to consider shear te
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Powder Flow: Evaluating the Powder Testing Toolkit: Tapped Density
Tim Freeman
June 15, 2018
In other editorials I’ve been examining modern industrial requirements for powder characterisation and assessing how well different test methods answer to the resulting brief.