Thin-Film Evaporator Model for Continuous Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Lee, BW, Yin, KHSplaine, K, Roesch, B
Thin-film evaporator (TFE) is a popular continuous distillation/evaporation technology for pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries and has several equipment and process configurations that make fundamental modeling approaches very challenging. Specifically, moving wipers and lack of fluid...
API Continuous Cooling and Antisolvent Crystallization for Kinetic Impurity Rejection in cGMP Manufacturing
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Johnson, MD, Burcham, CLMay, SA, Calvin, JR, Groh, JM, Myers, SS, Webster, LP, Roberts, JC, Reddy, VR, Luciani, CV, Corrigan, AP, Spencer, RD, Moylan, R, Boyse, R, Murphy, JD, Stout, JR
Crystallization of 204 kg of final active pharmaceutical ingredient was accomplished continuously using a cascade of mixed suspension mixed product removal crystallizers in cGMP manufacturing. This article describes the journey taken to transform a set of technical to final batch crystallizations...