The dynamic calibration of an electrical capacitance tomography sensor applied to the fluidized bed drying of pharmaceutical granule

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1281-1290

  Chaplin, Gareth ^a   Pugsley, Todd ^a   Van Der Lee, Loni ^b   Kantzas, Apostolos ^b   Winters, Conrad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrical capacitance tomography; Fluidization; Fluidized bed dryer; Image reconstruction; Permittivity model; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; DRUG PRODUCTS; DRYING; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DRYING MATERIALS; DYNAMIC CALIBRATION; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY SENSORS; LINEAR LEAST-SQUARES; PHARMACEUTICAL GRANULES; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHS;

SENSORS;

CALIBRATION; FLUIDIZED BED;

EID: 19944422117     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 09570233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/6/007     Document Type: Article

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