Students will be able to:

Analyze and optimize basic processes in chemical and pharmaceutical industry

Create protocols and operating sheets compliant with the industrial standards

Design suitable approach for scaling up the process from laboratory to production scale

R:Rhodes M.,Introduction to Particle Technology,Wiley,New York,2008,0471984833

R:Hickey A.J.,Pharmaceutical Process Engineering,M.Dekker,2001,0824702980

A:Levin M.,Pharmaceutical process scale up,M.Dekker,2002,0824706250

A:Klefenz H.,Industrial Pharmaceutical Biotechnology,Wiley,N.Y.,2002,3527299955

A:Fogler H.S.,Elements of Reaction Engineering,Prentice,Hall,New Jersey,2000,0130473944

Public available older version

http://tresen.vscht.cz/kot/english/tag/pharmaceutical-engineering/

New materials are available on UCT E-learning system

1. Characteristics and characterization of particles and particulate systems

2. Particle size reduction and classification

3. Introduction to mechanics of particulate solids

4. Particle agglomeration processes, high-shear, and fluidized-bed granulation

5. Compaction processes

6. Extrusion and postprocessing of agglomerated products

7. Tablet compression

8. Mixing and segregation in particulate systems

9. Pharmaceutical processes scale up, general scale up considerations

10. Fluid flow and transport in pharma applications

11. Processes involving particulate solid interaction with liquids

12. Applied reaction kinetics

13. Reaction kinetics of biotechnological processes

14. Introduction to process control, safety considerations in chemical and pharmaceutical processes

Mathematics I, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering I