Flowability measurements of pharmaceutical powder mixtures with poor flow using five different techniques

Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 785-791

  Lindberg, Nils Olof ^a,d   Pålsson, Magnus ^a   Pihl, Ann Christin ^a   Freeman, Reg ^b   Freeman, Tim ^b   Zetzener, Harald ^c   Enstad, Gisle ^c  

^a Pharmacia Consumer Healthcare   (Sweden)

^b Boulters Farm Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Telemark Technol Res Devmt Ctr   (Norway)

^d Galenica AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flowability; Jenike tester; Pharmaceutical; Poor flow; Uniaxial tester

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; AVALANCHING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG MIXTURE; EQUIPMENT; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HAUSNER RATIO; JENIKE TESTER; MIXER; POWDER; POWDER RHEOMETER; PROCESSING; RANK ORDER CORRELATION; TABLET COMPRESSION; TABLET FORMULATION; TABLET MANUFACTURE; TECHNIQUE; UNIAXIAL TESTER;

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; POWDERS; TABLETS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 4744344965     PISSN: 03639045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/DDC-120040343     Document Type: Article

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