A Practical Manual of Pharmaceutical Engineering provides 50 relevant experiments covering almost all the topics of pharmaceutical engineering like heat transfer, mass transfer, flow of fluids, size reduction, size separation, mixing, sedimentation, humidity and air conditioning, drying, filtration, centrifugation, distillation, crystallization, evaporation, packaging materials and corrosion.The appendices provided with this book give easy references to common units and conversion factors, Tyler standard screen scale, alcoholimetric table, vapour pressure graphs of various mixtures, equilibrium data of distillation, specific heat and radiation constants of common materials, Moody's diagram and some other basic experimental procedures.
This book Useful for academic requirements of pharmaceutical engineering students.The designed experiments in the book provide simple demonstrations for the conceptual understanding of pharmaceutical engineering.
1 Determination Of Radiation Constant Of Metal Cylinder
2 Determination Of Radiation Constant For Painted And Unpainted Metal Cylinders
3 Determination Of Overall Heat Transfer Co-Efficient
4 Determination Of Type Of Flow By Reynold S Apparatus
5 Determination Of Flow Rate By Direct Weighing Or Measuring
6 Determination Of Pressure Difference During Liquid Flow Using Simple Manometer
7 Determination Of Pressure Of Gas Flow By U Tube Manometer
8 Determination Of Pressure Of Gas Flow By Inclined Manometer
9 Determination Of Flow Of Fluid--Rotameter
10 Determination Of Frictional Pressure Loss During Fluid Flow Through A Pipe
11 Determination Of Coefficient Of Discharge By Orifice Meter
12 Determination Of Coefficient Of Discharge By Venturi Meter
13 Determination Of Efficiency Of A Centrifugal Pump
14 Determination Of Effect Of Number Of Balls On Grinding Operation Of Ball Mill
15 Determination Of Effect Of Time On Grinding Operation Of Ball Mill
16 Size Reduction-H
17 Particle Size Separation By Sieveing
18 Particle Size Separation - Beaker Decantation
19 Particle Size Separation By Sedimentation Method
20 Mixing-Determination Of Uniformity Index
21 Liquid-Liquid Mixing-Determination Of Uniformity Of Mixing
22 Determination Of Critical Point Of Setting-Sedimentation
23 Sedimentation-Effect Of Sedimentation Rate On Concentration
24 Determination Of Temperature Humidity Index-Thi
25 Determination Of Humidity By Psychrometric Method
26 Determination Of Humidity--Dew Point Method
27 Determination Of Relative Humidity By Wet Bulb Depression Method
28 Determination Of Relative Humidity By Sling Psychrometer
29 Drying-Determination Rate Of Drying
30 Drying-Comparison Of The Drying Pattern Of Solids
31 Determination Of Equilibrium Moisture Content
32 Filtration--Effect Of Filter Aids On Rate On Filtration
33 Effect Of Filter Aid Concentration On Rate Of Filtration
34 Evaluation Of Filter Media
35 Centrifugation--Determination Of The Yield Stress Of Centrifuged Cake
36 Centrifugation-Determination Of Centrifugal Effect
37 Simple Distillation-- Enthanol Water System
38 Determination Of Boiling Point Of The Components In A Liquid Mixture By Simple Distillation-
39 Determination Of Distillation Range In A Liquid Mixture Of Ethanol Water-Simple Distillation-
40 Steam Distillation--Determination Of Efficiency Of Distillation
41 Vacuum Distillation--Effect Of Vacuum On Distillation Of Aspirin Reaction Mixture
42 Determination Of Number Of Theoretical Plates-F Ractional Distillation
43 Crystallization By Cooling
44 Crystallization--Varification Of Material Balancing Equation
45 Evaporation--Evaluation Of Factors Affecting Rate Of Evaporation
46 Evaporation-Varification Of Material Balancing Equation
47 Evaluation Of Materials Used In Pharmaceutical Packaging--Corrugated Board
48 Evaluation Of Packaging-Glass
49 Determination Of Rate Of Corrosion--Tal Immersion Test
50 Determination Of Factors Affecting Corrosion Rate-Total Immersion Test