Thesis
Developing strategies and equipment for continuous isolation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) by filtration, washing and drying
- Creator
- Rights statement
- Awarding institution
- University of Strathclyde
- Date of award
- 2018
- Thesis identifier
- T15138
- Person Identifier (Local)
- 201494619
- Qualification Level
- Qualification Name
- Department, School or Faculty
- Abstract
- In pharmaceutical sector, compounds forming the drug and especially the activep harmaceutical ingredients (API's) are required to be pure, in accordance with the regulatory authorities' rules. The isolation stage is used to remove the impure liquid phase and to remove surface impurities from the crystalline product. Physico-chemical properties of crystals formed during the crystallization process and the solvents selected for the crystallization process influence the performance and the efficacy of isolation. Lots of effort was made in the last few decades to understand how to improve the crystallization stage. Relatively less effort has been made to understand the chemo-physical and process characteristics affecting the properties of the final isolated product. As consequence, the isolation stage can be responsible for extended API manufacturing time, the consumption of high quantities of materials and solvents and sometimes the requirement for isolated product post-processing to overcome variation of crystallized material properties caused by isolation.The aim of this thesis is to understand from a microscopic to a macroscopic point of view how the physic-chemical properties of the crystallized material and the washing solvents used in combination with the filtration, washing and drying approaches used can influence the final isolated product characteristics. To broaden the field, an alternative analytical technique for pharmaceutical field, TOF-SIMS, allows investigating the surface/subsurface of crystal to localize adsorption of related impurities to help to design isolation strategy and solvent selection. A major objective of this work is to reduce API manufacturing time in the R&D stage, to minimize chemical, especially solvent consumption, and to maximize the isolation knowledge gathered to design an optimal isolation process. The work also addresses the development of an analytical workflows/procedures to characterize materials during each step of the isolation. The final component was the development of a lab/small scale isolation prototype unit for API's development, which was developed during this work.
- Advisor / supervisor
- Price, Chris John
- Resource Type
- DOI
- Date Created
- 2018
- Former identifier
- 9912685992102996
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