Numerical simulation of freeze-thaw biopharmaceutical processes

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Volumn 24, Issue , 2011, Pages 907-912

  Lannuccelli, Marco ^a   Suzzi, Daniele ^a   Sirnik, Bernhard ^a   Rinderhofer, Alexander ^b   Khinast, Johannes G ^c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^b Zeta Biopharma GmbH   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

CFD; Freezing; Numerical simulation; Phase change; Proteins

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS; THAWING;

BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE; BIOPHARMACEUTICALS; CHEMICAL DEGRADATION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; FREEZING AND THAWING; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PHASE CHANGE; TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79955511563     PISSN: 22839216     EISSN: 22839216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3303/CET1124152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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