Investigating screw-agitator speed ratio impact on feeding performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing using discrete element method
Peer-reviewed journal | 23 Sep 2024 | 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...
A multi-scale hybrid CFD-DEM-PBM description of a fluid-bed granulation process
Peer-reviewed journal | 09 Jun 2023 | 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...