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CHE 460

Design and Charact of Mixing in Pharma Ind

This course covers the design and characterization of various mixing operations essential to the pharmaceutical industry. Mixing is a critical operation that involves combining different materials to produce antibiotics, vaccines, emulsions, tablets, suspensions, syrups, and creams/ointments. The course introduces the principles and applications of gas-liquid, solid-liquid, miscible liquid-liquid, immiscible liquid-liquid, and non-Newtonian mixing operations, as well as powder blending. The course compares the advantages and disadvantages of batch mixing and continuous mixing operations and discusses strategies for scaling up mixing processes in the pharmaceutical industry.
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1

Prerequisites

CHE 318

Co-Requisites

None

Antirequisites

None

Custom Requisites

None

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