Scale-up of pharmaceutical spray drying using scale-up rules: A review

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2019

Abstract

Spray drying is one of the widely used manufacturing processes in pharmaceutical industry. While there are voluminous experimental studies pertaining to the impact of various process-formulation parameters on the quality attributes of spray dried powders such as particle size, morphology, density, and crystallinity, there is scant information available in the literature regarding process scale-up. Here, we first analyze salient features of scale-up attempts in literature. Then, spray drying process is analyzed considering the fundamental physical transformations involved, i.e., atomization, drying, and gas-solid separation. Each transformation is scrutinized from a scale-up perspective with non-dimensional parameters & multi-scale analysis, and comprehensively discussed in engineering context. Successful scale-up entails similar key response variables from each transformation across various scales. These variables are identified as droplet size distribution, outlet temperature, relative humidity, separator pressure loss coefficient, and collection efficiency. Instead of trial-and-error-based approaches, this review paper advocates the use of mechanistic models and scale-up rules for establishing design spaces for the process variables involved in each transformation of spray drying. While presenting a roadmap for process development and scale-up, the paper demonstrates how to bridge the current gap in spray drying scale-up via a rational understanding of the fundamental transformations.

Identifier

85063398758 (Scopus)

Publication Title

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.03.047

e-ISSN

18733476

ISSN

03785173

PubMed ID

30910632

First Page

271

Last Page

292

Volume

562

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