W4. Granulation & Compaction Processes for
 Enhanced Product Performance
Nashville, TN • January 21-23, 2009 • Registration form •Syllabus
This granulation/compaction workshop is an in-depth course drawing heavily on interactions between powder properties & unit-operations, covering a variety of granulation and compaction processes. The course emphasizes the marriage between formulation properties and engineering scale-up in controlling granule/compact quality. Highlights include:

• Demonstration of key controlling powder phenomena, illustrating relationships between formulation and process operation.
• Wetting, growth & consolidation, breakage in wet granulation.
• Powder friction, permeability, and flaws in tabletting & roll pressing.
• Control of granulation (fluid-beds, high shear mixers, tumbling processes).
• Control of compaction (roll pressing, tabletting, extrusion).
• Impact of lubrication/stress uniformity in tabletting, w/die demonstrations.
• Scale-up approaches to agglomeration processes, with worked examples.
• Overview of solids handling, including hopper discharge and feeding.
• In-line laser diffraction and particle sizing approaches (Sympactec Inc.)
• Mini-roller compactor & mixer granulator demonstration (Vector Corp.)

Workshop leader:
Dr. Bryan J. Ennis is President of E&G Associates, Inc.  With three decades of experience in powder manufacturing, he has consulted for over 100 clients, including most major pharmaceutical/consumer products companies. He led agglomeration, solids handling & powder characterization programs of DuPont Engineering, and served as an Adjunct Professor of Vanderbilt Univ.  He received his B.S.Ch.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic & Ph.D. from The City College of NY.  Dr. Ennis is a cofounder and previous Technical Vice-Chair of the Particle Technology Forum of the AIChE.   Honors include two national AIChE awards for service to the profession, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Award (Germany), Stanley Katz Memorial Award (City College of NY), and a Visiting Research Fellow of Delft Technische Hogeschool (Netherlands).  He is the author of several other invited contributions on particle processing and Section Editor of Section 21: Solid-Solids Operations & Equipment (Powder Processing) of the Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook (8th Ed.); Theory of Granulation: An Engineering Perspective, in Hdbook of Pharma Granulation, 2nd Ed., & The Science & Engineering of Granulation Processes, Kluwer Academic.

Return to Contents.   Early registration discount: Dec. 8, 2008.