Pharmaceutical Process Engineering (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences: a Series of Textbooks and Monographs)

Summarizing fundamental engineering principles and operations critical to converting bulk pharmaceutical products into patient-ready and appropriate drug delivery dosage forms, Pharmaceutical Process Engineering facilitates comprehensive understanding of the practical aspects of drug production in an accessible, step-by-step format. It provides a pharmaceutical perspective on unit operations that improves communication among diverse professionals in the field-from pharmaceutical researchers to chemical and industrial engineers-and fully covers the relationship of pharmaceutical development to the application of key concepts and major unit operations in pharmaceutical engineering. With the goal of improving communication among diverse professionals involved in the manufacture of therapeutic agents-- from pharmaceutical researchers to chemical and industrial engineers, this volume summarizes the fundamental engineering principles and operations critical to converting bulk pharmaceutical products to patient-ready drug dosage delivery forms. The 15 chapters updating the out-of-print late 1960s text, Unit Processes in Pharmacy, cover such topics as heat and mass transfer, crystallization, size reduction and classification, sterilization, and bioprocessing. Hickey teaches at the School of Pharmacy at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is the president and CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Ganderton, with a Ph.D. from the U. of London, directs a pharmaceutical company in Bath. c. Book News Inc Fundamentals 1. Fluid flow 2. Heat transfer 3. Mass transfer 4. Powders Processes 5. Air conditioning and humidification 6. Drying 7. Solid-liquid extraction 8. Crystallization 9. Evaportion and distillation 10. Filtration 11. Size reduction and classification 12. Mixing 13. Solid dosage forms 14. Sterilization 15. Bioprocessing. Summarizing fundamental engineering principles and operations critical to converting bulk pharmaceutical products into patient-ready and appropriate drug delivery dosage forms, this book facilitates an understanding of the practical aspects of drug production. It provides a pharmaceutical perspective on unit operations. Fluids (liquids and gases) are a form of matter that cannot achieve equilibrium under an applied shear stress but deform continuously, or flow, as long as the shear stress is applied.