This 65-minute course is contained within a standard CD-ROM. Requirements include a 486 or faster PC running Windows 95 or 98, a CD-ROM player,  sound card, and speakers. Included on the disk is a copy of PowerPoint 97 Viewer, which is required to view the course content, and which must be installed in the default directory in order to properly utilize the menu-driven program.

This course is designed for formulation scientists, scale-up engineers, and general granulation personnel who would like to expand their understanding of the reasons behind various granulation scale-up problems and to investigate the practical solutions to such problems.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Extensive references and notes in convenient hard-copy format.

Purchase Price:   Members - $150
Non-members - $225

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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in technology, theory, and applications of a granulation process monitoring. Measurements of torque, power, speed, and temperature are of vital importance for understanding the change in the cohesive force or the tensile strength of the agglomerates in the moistened power bed. Mixer specific transducer designs for effective measurements must be combined with a detailed real time analysis of the incoming information for a reliable product and process optimization.

This course will present the classic theory of granulation end point determination and will provide a review of recent studies performed on a variety of vessel geometrics and a range of batch sizes. The goal of this course is to indicate a scientifically reliable way to minimize batch-to-batch variability and to ensure consistency of product properties during the scale-up process.