Abstract

Granulation is an important process in the pharmaceutical industry for the preparation of solid dosage forms. For high‐shear wet granulation, the process endpoint is monitored using the device power consumption. However, granulation is very sensitive to variations in the feed product physicochemical properties and, in some cases, power consumption profiles can not be used for process control. In this paper, a model is proposed to predict the granulation overwetting point from the spreading energy of the liquid binder on the powder. This energy is independently calculated from measurements of the powder true surface area, liquid binder surface tension, and liquid contact angle on the powder surface. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. and the American Pharmaceutical Association J Pharm Sci 90:332–339, 2001

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