Effect of particle shape of active pharmaceutical ingredients prepared by fluidized-bed jet-milling on cohesiveness
✍ Scribed by Tadashi Fukunaka; Kohta Sawaguchi; Boris Golman; Kunio Shinohara
- Book ID
- 102402078
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 211 KB
- Volume
- 94
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-3549
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✦ Synopsis
Milling is a common procedure to improve bioavailability of many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), which typically have low solubility in water. But such micronization can yield an increase in the cohesiveness of particles. Although particle cohesiveness is desirable for tablet strength in the subsequent formulation process, increased particle cohesiveness can lead to operational difficulties in a milling equipment due to compaction of particles inside. In this article, the impact of milling via a fluidizedbed jet-mill on the cohesive strength and interparticle force was studied using Ethenzamide as a pharmaceutical model compound. As a result, the particle shape was found to affect both the tensile strength of powder bed and the interparticle cohesive force. A powder bed, having relatively high void fraction by direct tensile test, shows a positive correlation between the cohesive force and the particle sphericity, while powders with low void fraction by diametral compression test show a positive correlation between the cohesive force and the angularity of the particle.