Handbook of Pharmaceutical Granulation Technology

1 Introduction 2 Theory of Granulation: An Engineering Perspective 3 Drug Substance and Excipient Characterization 4 Binders in Pharmaceutical Granulation 5 Excipients and their Attributes in Granulation 6 Spray Drying and Pharmaceutical Applications 7 Emerging Technologies for Particle Engineering 8 Roller Compaction Technology 9 Advances in Wet Granulation of Modern Drugs 10 Fluid Bed Granulation 11 Single Pot Processing 12 Extrusion/Spheronization as a Granulation Technique 13 Continuous Granulation 14 Effervescent Granulation 15 Granulation of Plant Products and Nutraceuticals 16 Granulation Approaches for Modified Release Products 17 Granulation of Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs 18 Granulation and Production Approaches of Orally Disintegrating Tablets 19 Melt Granulation 20 Sizing of Granulation 21 Granulation Characterization 22 Bioavailability and Granule Properties 23 Granulation Process Modeling 24 Scale-Up Considerations in Granulation 25 Advances in Process Controls and End-Point Determination 26 Use of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Pharmaceutical Applications 27 Regulatory Issues in Granulation: Leading Next Generation Manufacturing