CODE | PHR2609 | ||||||||
TITLE | Pharmaceutical Process Technology 2 | ||||||||
UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
DEPARTMENT | Pharmacy | ||||||||
DESCRIPTION | - Manufacture of solutions - Manufacture of suspensions and emulsions - Equipment used during filtration and centrifugation processes - Powders and granules - Granulation and Pharmaceutical Granulation Equipment - Drying and Pharmaceutical Drying Equipment - Tablet manufacture and compaction - Tablet excipients - Tablet testing - Important aspects of compression and compaction of powders - Material properties and material strength - Coating of tablets and multiparticulates: Film coating, sugar coating, compression coating - Manufacture of hard gelatin capsules - Manufacture of soft gelatin capsules Study-unit Aims To provide knowledge on the basic manufacturing processes and the equipment used during the manufacture of different pharmaceutical dosage forms Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Understand processes for the manufacture of powders, granules, tablets and capsules - Describe equipment used for the various processes required in the manufacturing process 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - List equipment used in the manufacture of granules, tablets and capsules - Follow a manufacturing process - Describe use of excipients Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Aulton ME, editor. Aulton’s pharmaceutics the design and manufacture of medicines. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone; 2007. ISBN 978-0-443-10108-3. - British Pharmacopoeia Commission Secretariat of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. British Pharmacopoeia. London: The Stationery Office; 2011. ISBN 9780113228492. - Cox Gad S. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Handbook: Production and Processes. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons; 2008. - Sharp J. Quality in the Manufacture of Medicines and other Healthcare Products. London: Pharmaceutical Press; 2000. |
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RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE PHR1613 | ||||||||
STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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LECTURER/S | Andrew John Cauchi Jake Pace Edwina V. Brejza |
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