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Continuous Pharmaceutical Processing

  • Broadens your understanding of different continuous unit operations involved in drug substance and product manufacturing
  • Equips readers with the most up-to-date advances in modeling, experimental investigations and equipment design as they pertain to each individual unit operation
  • Enriches understanding of quality by design (QbD) and process analytical technology (PAT) for continuous processing.

Part of the book series: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series (AAPS, volume 42)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Basic Principles of Continuous Manufacturing

    • Sudarshan Ganesh, Gintaras V. Reklaitis
    Pages 1-21
  3. Continuous Reactors for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

    • Martin D. Johnson, Scott A. May, Michael E. Kopach, Jennifer Mc Clary Groh, Timothy Donald White, Kevin P. Cole et al.
    Pages 23-50
  4. Understanding Residence Time, Residence Time Distribution, and Impact of Surge Vessels

    • Martin D. Johnson, Scott A. May, Jennifer Mc Clary Groh, Luke P. Webster, Vaidyaraman Shankarraman, Richard D. Spencer et al.
    Pages 51-85
  5. Intermittent Flow and Practical Considerations for Continuous Drug Substance Manufacturing

    • Martin D. Johnson, Scott A. May, Jennifer McClary Groh, Timothy Braden, Richard D. Spencer
    Pages 87-127
  6. Continuous Crystallization: Equipment and Operation

    • Yiqing C. Liu, Zoltan K. Nagy
    Pages 129-192
  7. Continuous Feeding-Blending in Pharmaceutical Continuous Manufacturing

    • Qinglin Su, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Zoltan K. Nagy
    Pages 193-226
  8. Continuous Wet Granulation

    • Arwa El Hagrasy, Li Ge Wang, Jim Litster
    Pages 269-300
  9. Continuous Fluidized Bed Drying: Advanced Modeling and Experimental Investigations

    • Ibrahim Alaathar, Stefan Heinrich, Ernst-Ulrich Hartge
    Pages 301-359
  10. Statistical Methods in Quality by Design and Process Analytical Technologies for Continuous Processes to Enable Real-Time Release

    • Vanessa Cárdenas, Juan G. Rosas, Carlos Pinzón, Rodolfo J. Romañach
    Pages 361-393
  11. Active Process Control in Pharmaceutical Continuous Manufacturing – The Quality by Control (QbC) Paradigm

    • Qinglin Su, Sudarshan Ganesh, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Zoltan K. Nagy
    Pages 395-427
  12. Real-Time Optimization: How to Change Setpoints in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

    • Arun Giridhar, Gintaras V. Reklaitis
    Pages 429-440
  13. Safety Guidelines for Continuous Processing

    • Martin D. Johnson, Jeffry Niemeier
    Pages 441-476
  14. Evaluating the Business Case for Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals: A Supply Network Perspective

    • Jagjit Singh Srai, Ettore Settanni, Parminder Kaur Aulakh
    Pages 477-512
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 537-541

About this book

Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing is currently receiving much interest from industry and regulatory authorities, with the joint aim of allowing rapid access of novel therapeutics and existing medications to the public, without compromising high quality. Research groups from different academic institutions have significantly contributed to this field with an immense amount of published research addressing a variety of topics related to continuous processing. The book is structured to have individual chapters on the different continuous unit operations involved in drug substance and drug product manufacturing. A wide spectrum of topics are covered, including basic principles of continuous manufacturing, applications of continuous flow chemistry in drug synthesis, continuous crystallization, continuous drying, feeders and blenders, roll compaction and continuous wet granulation.The underlying theme for each of these chapters is to present to the reader the recent advances in modeling, experimental investigations and equipment design as they pertain to each individual unit operation. The book also includes chapters on quality by design (QbD) and process analytical technology (PAT) for continuous processing, process control strategies including new concepts of quality-by-control (QbC), real-time process management and plant optimization, business and supply chain considerations related to continuous manufacturing as well as safety guidelines related to continuous chemistry. A separate chapter is dedicated to discussing regulatory aspects of continuous manufacturing, with description of current regulatory environment quality/GMP aspects, as well as regulatory gaps and challenges.

Our aim from publishing this book is to make it a valuable reference for readers interested in this topic, with a desire to gain a fundamental understanding of engineering principles and mechanistic studies utilized in understanding and developing continuous processes. In addition, our advanced readers and practitioners in this field will find that the technical content of Continuous Pharmaceutical Processing is at the forefront of recent technological advances, with coverage of future prospects and challenges for this technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Zoltan K Nagy

  • Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Arwa El Hagrasy

  • Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Jim Litster

About the editors

Zoltan K Nagy is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, USA and holds a research professor position at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on pharmaceutical systems engineering, advanced process control, crystallization modeling and control approaches and advanced control of particulate systems. He is an international expert in process intensification and advanced control application in integrated batch and continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing systems. He has received awards in the areas of crystallization and control from IEEE, IFAC, European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering and the European Research Council and he was the recipient of the AIChE’s Excellence in Process Development Research Award (2018) and the Pharmaceutical Discovery Development and Manufacturing (PD2M) Forum Award for Outstanding Contribution to QbD for Drug Substance (2019).

Arwa El Hagrasy is currently Acting Quality Assessment Lead, Office of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Assessment, OPQ, CDER, FDA. Arwa has been with FDA for over 6 years and has reviewed a wide variety of drug product applications submitted to the Agency, including those implementing emerging technologies and advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing.  Arwa has vast experience in industry and academia, with focus on the implementation of process analytical technology tools and continuous manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry.  Arwa received her B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University, Egypt, her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, did a post-doctoral appointment in the Chemical Engineering Department at Purdue University, and held Associate Professor position at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University.

 Jim Litster is Professor and Head of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield, following previous academic appointments at Purdue University (2007-2015) and The University of Queensland (1987-2007). His research area is Particulate Products and Processes focusing on production of particles and particulate delivery forms with well controlled size and morphology from sub-micron to millimeter scale using processes such as wet granulation, crystallization and spherical agglomeration. He is an international leading expert on wet granulation with over 30 years experience in the field. A major portion of his current research is in support of continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Jim is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He has received several awards internationally for his work, including the Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum Award from the AIChE in 2015.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Continuous Pharmaceutical Processing

  • Editors: Zoltan K Nagy, Arwa El Hagrasy, Jim Litster

  • Series Title: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41524-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41523-5Published: 11 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41526-6Published: 11 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41524-2Published: 10 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2210-7371

  • Series E-ISSN: 2210-738X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 541

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 189 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology

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