Chemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PDF)

This book deals with various unique elements in the drugdevelopment process within chemical engineering science andpharmaceutical R&D. The book is intended to be used as aprofessional reference and potentially as a text book reference inpharmaceutical engineering and pharmaceutical sciences. Many of theexperimental methods related to pharmaceutical process developmentare learned on the job. This book is intended to provide many ofthose important concepts that R&D Engineers and manufacturingEngineers should know and be familiar if they are going to besuccessful in the Pharmaceutical Industry. These include basicanalytics for quantitation of reaction components- oftenskipped in ChE Reaction Engineering and kinetics books. In additionChemical Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industryintroduces contemporary methods of data analysis for kineticmodeling and extends these concepts into Quality by Designstrategies for regulatory filings. For the current professionals,in-silico process modeling tools that streamlineexperimental screening approaches is also new and presented here.Continuous flow processing, although mainstream for ChE, is uniquein this context given the range of scales and the complex economicsassociated with transforming existing batch-plant capacity.

The book will be split into four distinct yet related parts.These parts will address the fundamentals of analytical techniquesfor engineers, thermodynamic modeling, and finally provides anappendix with common engineering tools and examples of theirapplications.