Wet Granulation Processes

Chemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry: R&D to Manufacturing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 757-780

  Hapgood, Karen P ^a   Litster, James D ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Two near elastic granules collision basis for coalescence rebound criteria; Wet granulation processes, and mechanisms in wet granulation liquid, forming wet agglomerates; Wet granule deformation extremes and breakage behavior in diametrical compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889289994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470882221.ch39     Document Type: Chapter

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