Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2014
Degree Name
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering
First Advisor
Costas G. Gogos
Second Advisor
Piero M. Armenante
Third Advisor
Robert Benedict Barat
Fourth Advisor
Nicolas Ioannidis
Abstract
Pharmaceutical Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) is essentially a special case of polymer compounding. The elementary steps involved in traditional plastics melt processing are handling of particulates, melting, dispersive and distributive mixing, devolatilization and stripping, and finally pressurization and pumping. However, for pharmaceutical HME, the dissolution of the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) is an additional and very important elementary step, along with the melting of the polymeric excipient that precedes it, and mixing which accelerates the dissolution process. A major concern in pharmaceutical HME is the thermal degradation of the API. To avoid overexposure of API to heat while ensuring complete dissolution of the API in the production of solid solution, the dissolution kinetics of the API must be known. This work employs a non- dissolving, surrogate material in an attempt to deconvolute the phenomena of distribution, dispersion and dissolution of the API inside a molten polymeric matrix using a Brabender batch mixer, in order to determine the dissolution kinetics of the API.
Recommended Citation
Zhan, Wang, "Dispersion and dissolution kinetics of API particles in pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion" (2014). Theses. 205.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/205
