Advanced approach to build the design space for the primary drying of a pharmaceutical freeze-drying process

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4922-4933

  Fissore, Davide ^a   Pisano, Roberto ^a   Barresi, Antonello A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Design space; Dynamic simulation; Freeze drying lyophilization; Mathematical model; PAT; Processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE DRYING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; PHARMACEUTICAL FREEZE DRYING PROCESS; PROCESS DESIGN; THICKNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80053263971     PISSN: 00223549     EISSN: 15206017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jps.22668     Document Type: Article

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