Topics
Topics covered at the 7th International Granulation Conference 2015.
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The Macro Scale I: Processing for Granulation
Processes
- Fluidised Bed Granulation
- Spray Drying
- High Shear Granulation
- Extrusion-Spheronisation and Pelletisation
- Roller Compaction
- Tabletting
- Coating and Encapsulation
General topics
- Continuous Granulation (including feed rate and granule composition)
- Scale-Up
- Powder Mixing
- Particle Dissolution, Dispersion and Deposition
- Tools for Process Control and PAT
- Evaluating Product Performance
- Environmental Aspects / Energy Consumption
- Overall Process Concepts & Design
- Granulation: Variability and Error
- On-line measurement
- Variability and Error
- Affordability/Economics of granulation
- Industrial challenges in manufacturing
- Process control when running on the edge-continuous and batch systems
- Feed forward control based on powder characterisation
- Fast start up and shut downs
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
Towards a Generalised Model of Agglomeration
- Influence of material properties of feed particles on agglomeration mechanism
- High Viscosity and Low Viscosity Binders
- High Shear and Low Shear Granulators
- How to Design the Optimal Agglomerator
- How to Control Properties (Shape, Density, Strength and Size)
The Macro Scale II: Applications
- Tabletting
- Pharmaceutical Granulation
- Fertiliser Granulation
- Agglomeration in the Food Industry
- Detergent and Personal Care Products
- Agglomeration in Suspension-Flocculation
- Nanoparticle-Granulation
- Agglomeration in the Metallurgical Industry
- Agglomeration in Catalysts
- Bio-granulation-Aerobic granulation
- Agglomeration in other Processes
- Undesired Agglomeration and Powder Caking
- Green Granulation - Innovative Processes
The Micro Scale: Granules and Smaller
- Structure-Property (Granule Structure, Product Performance)
- Droplet; wetting, spreading and rebound phenomena
- Interparticle Forces – Particle Adhesion – Sintering – Liquid bridge
- Product Structure vs Application Properties
- New Granule Characterisation Methods
- Hierarchically Structured Granules