COMMERCIAL MANUF PART 1 Flashcards
It deals with a subject both fascinating and vitally important for the pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical process scale-up or commercial manufacturing
It is generally defined as the process of increasing the batch size.
Scale-up
It is the operation that brings about separation or isolation of a single chemical constituent or a group of
chemically related substance.
Separation
It uses a single mechanical manipulation.
Simple process
It is used to separate two immiscible liquids.
Separatory Funnel
For two miscible liquids
Distillation
For two solids
Garbling
Used to separate solid from liquid
Centrifugation, filtration, expression
Requires the formation of a second phase by the addition of a liquid, solid, or gas plus mechanical manipulation
Complex Process
A separation process where an optically transparent liquid is obtained, which passes through a porous
substance (filter/filtering medium)
FILTRATION
Nature of precipitate is known → larger particles are easier to filter than smaller particles
FILTRATION
Have the tendency to occlude the pores of the bed, thus hinders passage of filtrate
Smaller particles
Build up on the filter tends to form a non-porous, densely packed bed that resist passage of the
filtrate
Smaller particles
It has channels that impart porosity (Porosity is defined as being full of tiny holes that water or air can
get through)
Filtering media
ability of the filter medium to eliminate solid material form the liquid
Retention
Speed at which the purified liquid/filtrate is recovered
Filtration rate
Speed of the flow of the liquid through the filter bed
-retarded by the viscosity of the liquid
Flow rate
5 types of filtering media
- Filter paper
- Membrane Filters
- Cotton Fibers
- Glass wool filters
- Sintered Glass filters
Types of filtering media that is FOLDED or FLUTED
Filter paper
Type of filtering media that is similar to a cloth; pure or derived cellulose products with uniform micropore structure (10nm to 10um)
✓ used in chemical, microbiological, and bacterial analyses
Membrane filters
Types of filtering media that is:
✓ Absorbent
✓ loosely inserted in the neck of the funnel
✓ disadvantage: refiltration is necessary
Cotton fibers
Type of filtering media that is resistant to chemical action, thus, are used for highly reactive chemicals (ie: strong acids)
Glass wool filters
Type of filtering media that is:
✓ flat or convex plate with Jena powdered glass that are molded together
✓ vacuum attachment required
✓ used to filter parenteral solutions
Sintered glass filters
to avoid loss and/or explosion, cover the funnel and the receiving vessel.
Filtration of volatile liquids
- increases the efficiency of the filtration process
- must be soluble and inert
Adsorbents
✓ not the palpable kind (impalpable: incapable of being felt by touch; so finely divided that no grains or grit can
be felt)
Purified Talc
✓ for general filtration processes
✓ inert
✓ adsorbs liquid
Kieselguhr or pure silica
✓ fuller’s earth or kaolin in hydrated form
✓ used to filter fixed oils but should not be used for liquid with coloring matter or alkaloidal principles
Siliceous earth or clay
✓ adsorbs color, odor, alkaloids, and glycosides
Charcoal
✓ readily react with acids and possess a finite solubility in water with a production of an alkaline aqueous solution
which can precipitate alkaloids
✓ not for general filtration processes
Chalk, magnesium carbonate
- aids in the filtration process; can use pump-acting process by water pressure where no leaks should be present
in the connections - Ex. Buchner filter; Gooch crucible (perforated) and flask
Vacuum filtration
- the process by which finely divided solids and colloidal materials are separated from liquids without the use of
filters
CLARIFICATION
It is employed when the contaminating material is finely subdivided, amorphous, or colloidal in nature
CLARIFICATION
Tends to plug a filtration medium rapidly
CLARIFICATION
✓ simplest method; least amount of labor and expense
✓ the sediment formed is a sludge which separates due to gravity from a liquid
✓ Ex. Fixed oils and vegetable oil
Gravitational sedimentation
(ie: paper, talc albumin, gelatin, and polyamines)
✓ added, shaken and removed by filtration
✓ acts to reduce turbidity by physical adsorption
Use of a clarifying agent
- a process of depriving solutions of color by use of an adsorptive medium
- Ex: Animal charcoal/bone black, wood charcoal, activated charcoal, bentonite, kaolin, fuller’s earth
DECOLORIZATION
- simplest method for the separation of a solid from its soluble impurities
- involves washing and subsequent agitation of the solid with an appropriate solvent, allowing the solid to settle
then removing the supernatant liquid
DECANTATION
repeated to attain the degree of desired purity of the solid
- conveniently done with a lipped vessel that is not filled to capacity
- stirring rod is used as a guide to steady the hand of the operator
DECANTATION
- straining
- it separates the solid from the liquid by pouring the mixture on a cloth or porous material that will permit the
fluid to pass through but will retain the solid
COLATION
it is filtration using larger pores in the straining medium/ cloth (flannel, muslin, wool, cheesecloth) which is
colorless and washed before use (soak in distilled water for a few hours, rinsed, boiled in distilled water then
rinsed well)
COLATION
Forcibly separating liquids from solids
EXPRESSION
Best method; uses a cloth
Spiral twist press
for large scale pressing of oily seeds, fatty substances; uses rubber
- care must be taken to apply the force gradually and not to use it on corrosive materials
Roller press
- expensive but most economical in terms of the increased power obtained with the least labor
the principle is based on the fact that pressure exerted upon an enclosed liquid is transmitted equally in all
directions
Hydrostatic or Hydraulic press
PRECIPITATION and CRYSTALLIZATION
Occurs in 3 steps:
- Supersaturation
- Formation of nuclei
- Growth of crystals
It evaporate solvent → cool → formation of crystals
Supersaturation
thought to consist of 10 to a few hundred molecules having the spatial arrangement of
the crystals that will be grown ultimately from them
Formation of nuclei
suspension → Ostwald ripening (formation of hard cake)
Growth of crystals
careful temperature control and seeding with desired crystal form is necessary
existence of polymorphs
It depends highly on impurities in the solution, pH, rate of
stirring, rate of cooling, and the solvent.
the habit or shape of the crystal form
- putting together of ingredients in one mass or assemblage with more or less thorough dispersion of the
constituted elements among one another
MIXING