KE2331 Pharmaceutical Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree in engineering or in sciences including 75 credits in chemistry or chemical engineering, English B/6.
The course focuses on manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, specifically the process steps from active pharmaceutical ingredient to final formulation, and covers in particular pharmaceutical unit operations for manufacture of solid dosage forms. The course focuses on batch processing and agitated tank operations, in multi-purpose, multi-product plants. The emphasis is on the influence of physico-chemical and processing conditions on process results and product properties, specifically as relates to the pharmaceutical industry. The course gives a detailed description and analysis of the unit operations crystallization, agitation and mixing, and drying, together with underlying physico-chemical theory. The course continues with a description of dosage forms, pharmaceutical excipients, and important pharmaceutical unit operations such as granulation, grinding and tableting.
After the course the student should be able to:
- Describe manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage forms, batch-wise pharmaceutical production processes, and the components and unit operations thereof,
- Plan, design and perform experiments to develop, design or improve batch-wise processes for production of solid pharmaceutical forms,
- Perform calculations over design, performance, operation and scaleup/scaledown of pharmaceutical unit operations,
- Analyse pharmaceutical production processes and propose safe, sustainable, technically feasible and economically viable improvements or solutions to process problems.
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