Topics

The Macro Scale I: Processing for Granulation

• High Shear Granulation
• Fluidized Bed Spray Granulation
• Extrusion-Spheronisation and Pelletization
• Roller Compaction and Tabletting
• Coating and Encapsulation
• Continuous Granulation
• Scale-Up
• Evaluating Product Performance
• Environmental Aspects/Energy Consumption
• Overall Process Concepts & Design
• Tools for Process Control
• Granulation: Variability and Error

The Macro Scale II: Applications

• Pharmaceutical Granulation and Tabletting
• Agglomeration in the Food Industry
• Detergent and Personal Care Products
• Nano-Granulation
• Green Granulation - Innovative Processes
• Agglomeration in Suspension-Flocculation
• Agglomeration in Metallurgical Industry
• Fertiliser Granulation
• Agglomeration in other Processes
• Undesired Agglomeration

The Meso Scale: Mechanistic Description

• Wetting and Nucleation, and Growth and Consolidation
• Granulation Rate Processes
• Breakage in Granulation
• Characterisation of Material Properties and their Influence on Granulation
• Binder Properties
• Transport Phenomena during Granulation
• Stress Distributions and Flow Profiles in Granulation Processes

The Micro Scale: Granules and Smaller

• Structure-Property (Granule Structure, Product Performance)
• Product Structure vs Application Properties
• Interparticle Forces
• Hierarchically Structured Granules
• New granule Characterisation Methods

Towards a Generalised Model of Agglomeration

• High Viscosity and Low Viscosity Binders
• High Shear and Low Shear Granulators
• How do Design the Optimal Agglomerator
• How to Control Properties (Shape, Density, Strength and Size)

2-Day Hands-on Practical Granulation Course

Led by experts from the food, detergent and pharmaceutical industries, the 2011 Granulation Course was designed for PhD students or those working in industrial granulation, giving hands-on granulation experience and knowledge.