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A Combined Feed-Forward/Feed-Back Control System for a QbD-Based Continuous Tablet Manufacturing Process
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Singh, Ravendra, Muzzio, Fernando J, Ierapetritou, Marianthi, Ramachandran, Rohit
Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing together with PAT (Process Analytical Technology) provides a suitable platform for automatic control of the end product quality as desired by QbD (quality by design)-based efficient manufacturing. The precise control of the quality of the pharmaceutical...
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A framework of hybrid model development with identification of plant-model mismatch
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Chen, Yingjie, Ierapetritou, Marianthi
Abstract Hybrid modeling has attracted increasing attention in order to take advantage of the additional data to improve process understanding. Current practice often adopts mechanistic models to predict process behaviors. These mechanistic models are based on physical understandings and...
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A hybrid model for multipoint real time potency observation in continuous direct compression manufacturing operations
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Gallo-Molina, Juan Pablo, Cogoni, Giuseppe, Peeters, Elisabeth, Rao Ambati, Seshagiri, Nopens, Ingmar
The ongoing transition from batch to continuous manufacturing offers both challenges and opportunities in the field of oral solid dosage form production. In turn, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) offers a path towards the successful deployment of continuous tablet manufacturing in rotary...
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A Hybrid MPC-PID Control System Design for the Continuous Purification and Processing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Sen, M, Singh, R, Ramachandran, R
In this work, a hybrid MPC (model predictive control)-PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control system has been designed for the continuous purification and processing framework of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The specific unit operations associated with the purification and...
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A Hybrid MPC-PID Control System Design for the Continuous Purification and Processing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Sen, M, Singh, R, Ramachandran, R
In this work, a hybrid MPC (model predictive control)-PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control system has been designed for the continuous purification and processing framework of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The specific unit operations associated with the purification and...
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A hybrid NIR-soft sensor method for real time in-process control during continuous direct compression manufacturing operations
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s): Cogoni, Giuseppe, Husain, Anas, Alam, Md Anik, Liu, Yang Angela, Kamyar, Reza
Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is commonly utilized for continuous manufacturing as Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tool. This paper focus on a continuous direct compression manufacturing process, in which an NIR PAT probe is integrated into the tablet press feed frame and into the tablet...
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A model-based framework for design and analysis of PAT systems
09 Jun 2023 | Workshop | Contributor(s): Gani, Rafiqul, Singh, Ravendra, Gernaey, Krist
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A multi-scale hybrid CFD-DEM-PBM description of a fluid-bed granulation process
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Sen, Maitraye, Barrasso, Dana Singh, Ravendra, Ramachandran, Rohit
In this study, a hybrid multi-scale model has been developed for a continuous fluid bed wet granulation process by dynamically coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with a discrete element model (DEM) and population balance model (PBM). In this process, the granules are formed by spraying...
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A New Software Framework for Implementing Crystal Growth Models to Materials of Any Crystallographic Complexity
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Zhao, Yongsheng, Tilbury, Carl J. Landis, Steven Sun, Yuanyuan, Li, Jinjin, Zhu, Peng, Doherty, Michael F.
To continue the realization of new therapeutics, a more diverse range of solid forms is being considered. Synthetic modalities are broadening beyond simple organic molecules to more complicated structures, including organic salts, cocrystals, and solvates. As in all crystalline applications,...
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A Novel Integrated Workflow for Isolation Solvent Selection Using Prediction and Modeling
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Ottoboni, S, Wareham, BVassileiou, A, Robertson, M, Brown, CJ, Johnston, B, Price, CJ
A predictive tool was developed to aid process design and to rationally select optimal solvents for isolation of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The objective was to minimize the experimental work required to design a purification process by (i) starting from a rationally selected...
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A novel robust digital design of a network of industrial continuous cooling crystallizers of dextrose monohydrate: From laboratory experiments to industrial application
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Nagy, Zoltan K., Szilagyi, Botond Pal, Kanjakha, Tabar, Iman Beheshti ;
This paper presents the first-ever industrial application of the digital design of a complex, large-scale industrial continuous crystallization network. The aim of the work is to optimize a large-scale continuous crystallization network used for the purification of dextrose monohydrate, by...
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A Process for the Formation of Nanocrystals of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients with Poor Aqueous Solubility in a Nanoporous Substrate
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): O'Mahony, M, Leung, AKFerguson, S, Trout, BL, Myerson, AS
A potential process for the formation of nanocrystals of the poorly soluble drug, ibuprofen, within a nanoporous material is demonstrated. Nanocrystalline ibuprofen (IBP) is prepared at <= 106 nm by adding a solution containing IBP to particles of controlled pore glass (CPG) within a column so...
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A retrofit strategy to achieve “Fast, Flexible, Future (F3)” pharmaceutical production processes
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Singh, Ravendra, Rozada-Sanchez, Raquel Wrate, Tim Muller, Frans Gernaey, Krist V Gani, Rafiqul, Woodley, John M
n the work reported here, a substrates adoption methodology for a series of similar substrates has been developed as part of a retrofit strategy. The objective is to achieve “fast, flexible and future” pharmaceutical production processes by adapting a generic modular process-plant template....
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A Stochastic Population Balance Equation Model for Nucleation and Growth of Crystals with Multiple Polymorphs
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Maggioni, Giovanni, Mazzotti, Marco
Understanding polymorph crystallization is important due to the different properties, such as bioavailability or crystal shape, exhibited by the different crystal forms. In this work, we present a model, based on population balance equations, describing the unseeded crystallization by cooling of...
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A Structured Approach To Cope with Impurities during Industrial Crystallization Development
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Urwin, SJ, Levilain, GMarziano, I, Merritt, JM, Houson, I, Ter;Horst, JH
The perfect separation with optimal productivity, yield, and purity is very difficult to achieve. Despite its high selectivity, in crystallization unwanted impurities routinely contaminate a crystallization product. Awareness of the mechanism by which the impurity incorporates is key to...
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A systematic computer aided framework for design and analysis of PAT systems
09 Jun 2023 | Workshop | Contributor(s): Gernaey, Krist, Singh, Ravendra, Gani, Rafiqul
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A Systematic Framework for Data Management and Integration in a Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processing Line
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Cao, Huiyi, Mushnoori, Srinivas, Higgins, Barry, Kollipara, Chandrasekhar, Fermier, Adam, Hausner, Douglas, Jha, Shantenu, Singh, Ravendra, Ierapetritou, Marianthi, Ramachandran, Rohit
As the pharmaceutical industry seeks more efficient methods for the production of higher value therapeutics, the associated data analysis, data visualization, and predictive modeling require dependable data origination, management, transfer, and integration. As a result, the management and...
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A systematic framework for onsite design and implementation of a control system in a continuous tablet manufacturing process
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Singh, Ravendra, Sahay, Abhishek Muzzio, Fernando Ierapetritou, Marianthi, Ramachandran, Rohit
A novel manufacturing strategy based on continuous processing integrated with online/inline monitoring tools coupled with an advanced control system is highly desired for efficient Quality by Design (QbD)-based pharmaceutical manufacturing. A control system ensures the predefined end product...
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A Systematic Framework for the Design and Implementation of Sensing and Control Architecture for a Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Singh, Ravendra, Muzzio, Fernando J Ierapetritou, Marianthi, Ramachnadran, Rohit
The continuous pharmaceutical manufacture (CPM) plant and control architecture developed earlier is currently being widely implemented in industries [1,2]. CPM indeed provides an appropriate platform to implement suitable monitoring and control architecture, to improve product quality, and to...
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A systematic framework to monitor mulling processes using Near Infrared spectroscopy
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Wu, Suyang, Panikar, Savitha S Singh, Ravendra Zhang, Jun Glasser, Benjamin, Ramachandran, Rohit
The optimal design of sensor location and setup is essential to ensure the accuracy and precision of in-line process monitoring of water/moisture content. This manuscript presents a systematic framework of using Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to monitor moisture content in an alumina mulling...
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A systematic reactor design approach for the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Emenike, VN, Schenkendorf, R, Krewer, U
Today's highly competitive pharmaceutical industry is in dire need of an accelerated transition from the drug development phase to the drug production phase. At the heart of this transition are chemical reactors that facilitate the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and whose...
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A Validated Model for Design and Evaluation of Control Architectures for a Continuous Tablet Compaction Process
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Nunes de Barros, Fernando, Bhaskar, Aparajith, Singh, Ravendra
The systematic design of an advanced and efficient control strategy for controlling critical quality attributes of the tablet compaction operation is necessary to increase the robustness of a continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process and for real time release. A process model plays a very...
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A very boring 120 h: 15million tablets under a continuous state of control
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Holman, James, Tantuccio, Anthony, Palmera, Jhon, Doninck, Tom van, Meyer, Robert
The aimof this study is to showthe robustness of a commercial direct compression system running continuously under relevant process conditions for over 120 h. The study will apply a representative commercial control strategy including real time monitoring of process parameters, rejection of OOS...
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A Virtual Plant for Integrated Continuous Manufacturing of a Carfilzomib Drug Substance Intermediate, Part 1: CDI-Promoted Amide Bond Formation
09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Içten, Elçin, Maloney, Andrew J., Beaver, Matthew G., Shen, Dongying E., Zhu, Xiaoxiang, Graham, Lauren R., Robinson, Jo A., Huggins, Seth, Allian, Ayman, Hart, Roger, Walker,Shawn D., Rolandi, Pablo, Braatz, Richard D.
This article details process characterization efforts and the development of corresponding process models to inform a process control strategy to produce a carfilzomib drug substance intermediate, morpholine amide 3. Model calibration for relevant unit operations and development of a dynamic...
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A Virtual Plant for Integrated Continuous Manufacturing of a Carfilzomib Drug Substance Intermediate, Part 3: Manganese-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation, Crystallization, and Filtration
25 Jun 2024 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Maloney, Andrew J., Içten, Elçin, Capellades, Gerard, Beaver, Matthew G., Zhu, Xiaoxiang, Graham, Lauren R., Brown, Derek B., Griffin, Daniel J., Sangodkar, Rahul, Allian, Ayman, Huggins, Seth, Hart, Roger, Rolandi, Pablo, Walker, Shawn D., Braatz, Richard D.
This article describes the process characterization and development of models to inform a process control strategy to prepare (R,R)-epoxy ketone 2, an intermediate in the manufacture of carfilzomib. Model calibration for relevant unit operations and the development of a dynamic integrated...