Flowability of moist pharmaceutical powders

Powder Technology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 409-415

  Emery, Erica ^a,b   Oliver, Jasmine ^a,b   Pugsley, Todd ^a,b   Sharma, Jitendra ^a,b   Zhou, Joe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Eli Lilly ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Flowability; Powder; Shear

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT (API); FLOWABILITY; LIQUID BRIDGES; METHYL CELLULOSE (MC); MOISTURE CONTENT (MC); PHARMACEUTICAL POWDERS; POWDER; POWDER FLOWABILITY; SHEAR; SHEAR INDEX;

AGGLOMERATION; DRUG PRODUCTS; ESTERS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PEPTIDES; POWDERS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT; ASPARTAME; DRUG; HYDROXYPROPYLMETHYLCELLULOSE; LACTOSE; RESPITOSE ML001; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; FLOW KINETICS; HUMIDITY; LIQUID; MOISTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHARMACEUTICAL POWDER; POWDER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRENGTH; WETTABILITY;

EID: 58549095434     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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