About the Book
The first edition of Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology, published in 2003, was deemed the seminal book on pharmaceutical extrusion. Now it is expanded and improved, just like the usage of extrusion has expanded, improved and evolved into an accepted manufacturing technology to continuously mix active pharmaceutical ingredients with excipients for a myriad of traditional and novel dosage forms.
Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology, Second Edition reflects how this has spawned numerous research activities, in addition to hardware and process advancements. It offers new authors, expanded chapters and contains all the extrusion related technical information necessary for the development, manufacturing, and marketing of pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Twin Screw Extruders for Pharmaceutical Products from a Technical and Historical Perspective
Charlie Martin, Leistritz Extrusion
Chapter 2: Extruder Design
Richard Steiner, Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH
Chapter 3: Control Strategy Considerations for Continuous Manufacturing using Hot Melt Extrusion
Celia N. Cruz, Rapti Madurawe, Naresh Pavurala, and Sharmista Chatterjee, Food and Drug Administration
Chapter 4: Twin Screw Extrusion & Screw Design
William Thiele, Leistritz Extrusion
Chapter 5: Die Design
John Perdikoulias, Compuplast; Tom Dobbie, Porpoise Viscometers Ltd.
Chapter 6: Feeding Technology and Material Handling for Pharmaceutical Extrusion
Sharon Nowak, Coperion K-Tron
Chapter 7: Rheology, Torque and Oscillatory Rheometers
Scott Martin, Thermo Electron Material Characterization; Fengyuan Yang and Thomas Durig, Ashland Inc.
Chapter 8: Foam Extrusion
Graciela Terife, Merck & Co., Inc.; Niloufar Faridi, Polymer Processing Institute
Chapter 9: Melt Pelletization and Size Reduction
Chris Case, Reduction Engineering; Albrecht Huber and Kathrin Nickel, Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH
Chapter 10: Extended Release Dosage Forms
Bo Lang, Bristol-Myers Squibb; Xin Feng, The University of Mississippi; Feng Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin
Chapter 11: Shape Extrusion – Extruded Implantable Drug Delivery Devices: Materials, Applications and Processing
Bob Bessemer, Conair Group; Tony Listro, Foster Delivery Science
Chapter 12: Film, Sheet and Laminates
Bert Elliot and Brian Haight, Leistritz Extrusion
Chapter 13: Melt Extruded Amorphous Solid Dispersions
Pinak Khatri, Kipen Desai, Harpreet Sandhu, Atswain Thongsukmak, Gaurang Patel, Jaydeep Vaghashiya, Wantanee Phuapradit, and Navnit Shah, Kashiv Pharmaceuticals
Chapter 14: Process Modeling and Simulation of Extrusion Operations
David Johnson, Rick Peng and James DiNunzio, Merck & Co., Inc.
Chapter 15: Devolatilization via Twin Screw Extrusion: Theory, Tips, and Test Results
Charlie Martin and Brian Haight, Leistritz Extrusion
Chapter 16: Continuous Granulation Methodologies
Mayur Lodaya, GlaxoSmithKline; Michael Thompson, McMaster University
Chapter 17: Installation, Commissioning & Qualification
Adam Dreiblatt, Extrusioneering International Inc.
Chapter 18: Extruder Control Systems
Stuart Kapp, Leistritz Extrusion; Pete Palmer, Wolock & Lott Transmission Equipment Corp.
About the Author :
Isaac Ghebre-Sellassie is President, Pharmaceutical Technology Solutions, Morris Plains, New Jersey, and Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, MEGA Pharmaceuticals, Asmara, Eritrea. Dr. Ghebre-Sellassie is the author or coauthor of more than 50 professional publications, including Multiparticulate Oral Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Pelletization Technology (both titles, Marcel Dekker Inc.), and the holder of 17 patents. A member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, he received his M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Charles Martin is President/General Manager of Leistritz Extrusion. He is responsible for the management of a company that provides manufacturing equipment and engineering services to the plastics, medical and pharmaceutical industries in the USA and around the world. Extensively published in trade publications, textbooks and journals, Charlie has delivered 100+ technical presentations at wide-ranging international events, and was the co-editor of the 1st edition of the textbook Pharmaceutical Extrusion Technology. He has been awarded 2 extrusion-related patents. Charlie earned his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and MBA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Feng Zhang is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zhang is the author and coauthor of more than 40 publications and more than 10 patents. A member of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist, he received his Ph.D. degree (1999) in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
James DiNunzio is a Principal Scientist in the Formulation Sciences Group at Merck & Co., Inc. and currently leads the Hot-Melt Extrusion Subject Matter Expert team. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Pharmaceutics. He has published numerous research articles, book chapters, and is a co-inventor on multiple patents and patent applications. His current research interests include formulation design for melt extruded systems and the development of continuous manufacturing processes.
