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Investigating screw-agitator speed ratio impact on feeding performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing using discrete element method
| Contributor(s):: Paul Van Liedekerke, Thomas De Beer, Ashish Kumar, Luz Nadiezda Naranjo Gómez, Kensaku Matsunami
In continuous powder handling processes, precise and consistent feeding is crucial for ensuring the quality of the final product. The intermixing effect caused by agitators, which alters the powder’s bulk density, flow rate, and flow patterns, plays a significant role in this process, yet...
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Improvement of a pharmaceutical powder mixing process in a tote blender via DEM simulations
| Contributor(s):: Benedict Benque, Luca Orefice, Thomas Forgber, Matthias Habeler, Beate Schmid, Johan Remmelgas, Johannes Khinast
An industrial-scale pharmaceutical powder blending process was studied via discrete element method (DEM) simulations. A DEM model of two active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) components and a combined excipient component was calibrated by matching the simulated response in a dynamic angle of...
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The Effect of Mixer Properties and Fill Level on Granular Flow in a Bladed Mixer
| Contributor(s):: Remy, B, Glasser, BJ, Khinast, JG
The discrete element method was used to study the effect of mixer properties and fill level oil the granular flow of monodisperse, cohesionless spheres in a bladed mixer. For fill levels just covering the span of the blades, a three-dimensional (3-D) recirculation zone develops in front of the...
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Mathematical development and comparison of a hybrid PBM-DEM description of a continuous powder mixing process
| Contributor(s):: Sen, Maitraye, Dubey, Atul Singh, Ravendra, Ramachandran, Rohit
This paper describes the development of a multidimensional population balance model (PBM) which can account for the dynamics of a continuous powder mixing/blending process. The PBM can incorporate the important design and process conditions and determine their effects on the various critical...