Use of stress fluctuations to monitor wet granulation of powders

Powder Technology

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 149-162

  Talu, Ilkay ^a   Tardos, Gabriel I ^a   Ruud Van Ommen, J ^b  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Monitoring of granulation; Statistical process control; Stress fluctuations; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRANULATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

FLUIDIZED COUETTE DEVICES (FCD);

POWDERS;

AGGLOMERATION; GRANULATION; POWDER; STRESS;

ARTICLE; DRUG GRANULATION; FLUIDIZED BED; MODEL; MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDER; PROCESS CONTROL; ROTATION; STRESS; TECHNIQUE; WET GRANULATION;

EID: 0035806280     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-5910(01)00321-7     Document Type: Article

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