PPTC 6440305-2021/2022-Y2S2 Pharmaceutical Technology

SYNOPSIS

This course elaborates the principles, operating systems and details of various equipment utilized in pharmaceutical industrial setting. It also outlines the various unit operations like heat flow, evaporation, distillation, size reduction, size separation, crystallization and mixin

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  1. Describe the principles of various unit operations, techniques and aspects of equipment’s utilized in production of pharmaceuticals
  2. Measure the various parameters in unit operations practiced in pharmaceutical industrial setup
  3. Appraise on current advances associated with equipment’s used in various unit operations of  pharmaceutical industry

Main textbooks:

1.      Rawlins, EA, 1977. Bentley’s Textbook of Pharmaceutics, 8th edn, Bailiere Tindall, London

2.      Badger, L and Banchero, JT, 1987. Introduction to Chemical Engineering, 29th Edn, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York

3. CVS Subrahmanyam.2012, Pharmaceutical Engineering, 3 rd Edn. Vallabh Prakashan, India

4. McCabe, WC, Smith, JC and Harriot, P, 2005. Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 7th    edn, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York.