<p>Relationships between stresses during the drying process, particle structural and functional properties, and particle engineering by the drying process were addressed in this thesis. In the first part, the importance of the drying phase and the effect of the drying rate on the intragranular porosity of microcrystalline cellulose pellets were investigated. Differences in porosities of dried pellets could be explained by liquid-related differences in densification during convective drying rather than by differences in densification during wet agglomeration. An increased drying rate gave more porous pellets with a lower compression shear strength, and thereby stronger tablets. The next part dealt with modulation of solid-state stability and tabletting behaviour of amorphous lactose by incorporation of different polymers by spray drying. Increased content and molecular weight of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) resulted in an increased resistance to crystallisation provoked by heat and moisture. The stabilising effect was even more evident after long-term storage. However, the glass transition temperature was almost unaffected and may, therefore, be questioned as a stability indicator for these types of materials. The presence of the polymers resulted in somewhat less deformable particles. Incorporation of PVP increased the compactability, whilst a surfactant decreased it, which could be shown to be related to differences in particle-particle adhesivity between the different particles. This thesis contributes to increased mechanistic understanding in the area of particle engineering that may lead to better prediction and optimisation of the functionality of pharmaceutical particles, which is of the utmost importance in the development and production of solid dosage forms.</p>

Relationships between stresses during the drying process, particle structural and functional properties, and particle engineering by the drying process were addressed in this thesis. In the first part, the importance of the drying phase and the effect of the drying rate on the intragranular porosity of microcrystalline cellulose pellets were investigated. Differences in porosities of dried pellets could be explained by liquid-related differences in densification during convective drying rather than by differences in densification during wet agglomeration. An increased drying rate gave more porous pellets with a lower compression shear strength, and thereby stronger tablets. The next part dealt with modulation of solid-state stability and tabletting behaviour of amorphous lactose by incorporation of different polymers by spray drying. Increased content and molecular weight of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) resulted in an increased resistance to crystallisation provoked by heat and moisture. The stabilising effect was even more evident after long-term storage. However, the glass transition temperature was almost unaffected and may, therefore, be questioned as a stability indicator for these types of materials. The presence of the polymers resulted in somewhat less deformable particles. Incorporation of PVP increased the compactability, whilst a surfactant decreased it, which could be shown to be related to differences in particle-particle adhesivity between the different particles. This thesis contributes to increased mechanistic understanding in the area of particle engineering that may lead to better prediction and optimisation of the functionality of pharmaceutical particles, which is of the utmost importance in the development and production of solid dosage forms.

Submitted by Emanuel Varela Cardoso (emanuel.varela@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-06-13T20:31:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FABRÍCIO BATISTA BORGES – TESE (PPGEP) 2016.pdf: 4027586 bytes, checksum: c02ca04ae0983633d70b155cc190bf48 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-13T20:31:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FABRÍCIO BATISTA BORGES – TESE (PPGEP) 2016.pdf: 4027586 bytes, checksum: c02ca04ae0983633d70b155cc190bf48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-23 / Objetiva-se com este trabalho realizar estudos usando as soluções analítica e numérica da equação de difusão para descrever a secagem em camada fina de grãos de milho nas temperaturas de 45, 55, 65 e 75 ºC, os quais têm uma forma que pode ser aproximada a de um paralelepípedo. Foram utilizadas ferramentas numéricas e analíticas para o estudo dos fenômenos difusivos envolvendo as três dimensões geométricas dos grãos mencionados. Para a solução numérica proposta, a equação de difusão tridimensional foi discretizada utilizando os métodos dos volumes finitos, com uma formulação totalmente implícita, fazendo uso das coordenadas cartesianas. Com a finalidade de estabelecer a correta condição de contorno na descrição da cinética de secagem dos grãos de milho, foram utilizados três softwares para a determinação dos parâmetros de processo a partir dos dados experimentais via otimização. O primeiro software usado para simular a cinética de secagem do milho foi “Prescribed Adsorption – Desorption” V.2.2, que utiliza a solução analítica da equação de difusão empregando a condição de contorno do primeiro tipo. O segundo software utilizado foi o “Convective Adsorption – Desorption” V. 2.4. Este simula a cinética de secagem de produtos usando a solução analítica da equação de difusão empregando a condição de contorno do terceiro tipo. Já o terceiro software usado na otimização foi o “LS Optimizer” V.2.1, que determina os parâmetros de uma equação diferencial usando o método dos mínimos quadrados na solução numérica da equação de difusão com a condição de contorno do terceiro tipo. Esses dois últimos geraram resultados coerentes e consistentes em todas as etapas efetuadas durante os testes. Pode-se concluir que o segundo e o terceiro modelos propostos para analisar os dados da pesquisa foram coerentes e equivalentes, e os resultados obtidos foram satisfatórios. Assim, a condição de contorno do terceiro tipo foi usada para a solução numérica tridimensional da equação de difusão em coordenadas cartesianas. Testes de validação indicaram que a solução numérica desenvolvida apresenta resultados coerentes com aqueles esperados. / The objective with this essay is to carry out studies using analytical and numerical solutions of the diffusion equation to describe the drying of thin layer of corn grains at temperatures of 45, 55, 65 and 75 ° C, which have a shape that can be approximated for a parallelepiped. Numerical and analytical tools were used for the study of the diffusive phenomena involving the three geometric dimensions of the mentioned grains. For the numerical solution proposed, the three dimensional diffusion equation was discretized using the finite volume method with a fully implicit formulation using the cartesian coordinates. In order to establish the right boundary condition in the description of the corn grain drying kinetics, three software were used for the determination of the process parameters from the experimental data using optimization. The first software used to simulate corn drying kinetics was "Prescribed Adsorption - Desorption" V.2.2, which uses the analytical solution of the diffusion equation using the boundary condition of the first type. The second software used was "Convective Adsorption - Desorption" V. 2.4. This one simulates the kinetics of drying products using the analytical solution of the diffusion equation using the boundary condition of the third kind. The third software used in the optimization was the "LS Optimizer" V.2.1 which determines the parameters of a differential equation using the method of least squares in the numerical solution of the diffusion equation using the boundary condition of the third kind.The latter two have generated coherent and consistent results in all steps performed during testing. It can be concluded that the second and third proposed models to analyze the survey data were consistent and equivalent and the results were satisfactory. Thus, the boundary condition of the third kind was used for three -dimensional numerical solution of the diffusion equation in cartesian coordinates. Validation tests indicated that the developed numerical solution provides coherent results with t hose expected.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de fournir des modèles et des outils de simulation pour décrire les échanges de masse entre les circuits de ventilation (galeries) et les milieux poreux des ouvrages souterrains d'enfouissement des déchets nucléaires. La modélisation prend en compte le couplage à l'interface poreux-galerie entre les écoulements liquide gaz compositionnels dans le milieu poreux constituant le stockage et les écoulements gazeux compositionnels dans le milieu galerie libre. / The objective of this thesis is to develop models and algorithms to simulate efficiently the mass exchanges occurring at the interface between the nuclear waste deep geological repositories and the ventilation excavated galleries. To model such physical processes, one needs to account in the porous medium for the flow of the liquid and gas phases including the vaporization of the water component in the gas phase and the dissolution of the gaseous components in the liquid phase. In the free flow region, a single phase gas free flow is considered assuming that the liquid phase is instantaneously vaporized at the interface. This gas free flow has to be compositional to account for the change of the relative humidity in the free flow region which has a strong feedback on the liquid flow rate at the interface.