BP308P – PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING (Practical)

B. Pharm. 2nd Year (3rd Semester)

I. Determination of radiation constant of brass, iron, unpainted and painted glass. II. Steam distillation – To calculate the efficiency of steam distillation.
III. To determine the overall heat transfer coefficient by heat exchanger.
IV. Construction of drying curves (for calcium carbonate and starch). V. Determination of moisture content and loss on drying. VI. Determination of humidity of air – i) From wet and dry bulb temperatures –use of
Dew point method.
VII. Description of Construction working and application of Pharmaceutical
Machinery such as rotary tablet machine, fluidized bed coater, fluid energy mill,
de humidifier. VIII. Size analysis by sieving – To evaluate size distribution of tablet granulations – Construction of various size frequency curves including arithmetic
andlogarithmic probability plots.
IX. Size reduction: To verify the laws of size reduction using ball mill and
determining Kicks, Rittinger’s, Bond’s coefficients, power requirement and
critical speed of Ball Mill.
X. Demonstration of colloid mill, planetary mixer, fluidized bed dryer, freeze dryer
and such othermajor equipment.
XI. Factors affecting Rate of Filtration and Evaporation (Surface area, Concentration
and Thickness/ viscosity
XII. To study the effect of time on the Rate of Crystallization.
XIII. To calculate the uniformity Index for given sample by using Double Cone
Blender.