PHT 432 - Industrial Pharmacy

The course deals with the main operations that take place in industrial pharmacy and the equipment carrying out such operations. These operations include: size reduction and size analysis, blending and mixing, filtration, centrifugation, extraction, heat flow, cooling and refrigeration, drying process, freeze drying, spray drying, evaporation, distillation, crystallization, and super-critical fluids. In addition, the manufacturing of biopharmaceutical APIs and their formulation and assessment methods are also discssed.