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- Title
Mitigation of Tribocharging in Pharmaceutical Powders using Surface Modified V-Blenders.
- Authors
Mehta, Tanu; Mukherjee, Raj; Shah, Ami; Mastriani, Trey; Duran, Tibo; Chaudhuri, Bodhisattwa
- Abstract
Introduction: The pharmaceutical industry involves handling of powders on a large scale for manufacturing of solid dosage forms such as tablets and capsules constituting about 85% of the dosage forms. During this manufacturing process, powders get electrostatically charged due to numerous particle–particle and particle-equipment wall collisions. Most of the pharmaceutical powders are insulators in nature and they accumulate charge for longer durations making it difficult to dissipate the generated charge. In this study, a surface modified blender has been used to analyze tribocharging in pharmaceutical powders. Methods: The surface modified blender has been fabricated using two types of materials, an insulator, and a conductor. The conductor or the metal arm induces charge of opposite polarity to that of the charge induced by the insulator arm and the overall charge on the powder decreases during the tumbling motion of the blender. Ibuprofen was used as the model drug and processed in aluminum, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), stainless steel, surface modified aluminum-PVC (Al-PVC) and surface modified stainless steel- PVC (SS-PVC) blender at 20% RH for different blending times such as 2, 10, 20, 30 and 40 min. To better understand the tribocharging phenomenon in surface modified V blenders, an experimentally validated computational model was developed using Discrete Element Method (DEM) modeling. Results: Significant reduction (> 50%) in electrostatic charge was observed for Ibuprofen using surface modified blenders in comparison to metal only and insulator only V blenders. Additionally, an identical charging trend was observed between the simulation and experimental data. Conclusion: It was established that careful selection of equipment materials could significantly reduce the electrostatic charging of pharmaceutical powders and DEM model could be a really useful tool in assessing the applicability of the modified V blenders.
- Subjects
PHARMACEUTICAL powders; DISCRETE element method; SOLID dosage forms; SURFACE phenomenon; MANUFACTURING processes; SURFACE charges; POWDERS
- Publication
Pharmaceutical Research, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 10, p2371
- ISSN
0724-8741
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11095-023-03612-y