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EXTRUDER-SPHERONIZER
PRESENTED BY
GEETHA.R
M.PHARM
II – SEMISTER
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
EQUIPMENTS OF EXTRUDER AND
SPHERONIZER
EXTRUSION- SPHERONIZATION PROCESS
APPLICATION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
Extrusion-spheronization
Extrusion-spheronization a pelletization technique was
developed in the early 1960s, and this process is
commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry to make
uniformly sized spheroids.
It is especially useful for making dense granules for
controlled-release solid oral dosage forms with a
minimum amount of excipients.
Extrusion
Extrusion is a necessary first step in the extrusion-
spheronization process.
It is the process of forming a raw material into a product
of uniform shape and density by forming it through an
orifice or die under controlled conditions.
Spheronization
The spheronization technology was introduced
by Nakahara in 1964.
Screw Extruders
Advantages
The advantage of this arrangement are high continuous
throughput rates, from 5 kg/h of wet mass for a
laboratory-scale single-screw extruder, upto 800 kg/h for
a larger twin-screw design.
The screens are easily cleaned and interchanged, they
have holes of varying diameter beginning at 0.5 mm and
are available commertially.
Disadvantages
Screw mechanism can exert a high pressure on the
material, generating excessive friction and heat as the
wet mass passes between the screw and barrel.
Gravity-fed extruders
It include the rotary cylinder and rotary gear extruders,
which differ mainly in the design of the two-counterrotating
cylinders.
Rotary cylinder extruder
In this extruder, one of the two counter-rotating
cylinders is hollow and perforated, where as the other
cylinder is solid and acts as a pressure roller.
The material to be extruded is fed into the area above
the two cylinders. Pressure is built up in the
perforations, which compacts the wet mass and forces
the extrudate to the interior of the cylinder.
The temperature increase in the extrudate is
minimized by circulating cool water through the
pressure cylinder.
Advantages
Laboratory-scale extruders with a throughput range of
30-50 kg/h use granulation cylinders 70mm in diameter.
Production-scale equipment with a larger granulating
cylinder ( 186 mm diameter ) can achieve an output of
100-105 kg/h.
Disadvantages
Cleaning of the granulating cylinder can be troublesome.
Granulating cylinders are expensive because of the high
cost of drilling stainless steel.
Rotary gear extruder
It consist of two hollow counter-rotating gear cylinders
with counterbored dies as nozzles, they are drilled into
the cylinders between the teeth.
Gear Extruders
Advantages
Produces a relatively higher density extrudate.
Multi-particulate systems
Recommended Products:
Avicel PH 101, PH-102
To develop an enteric-coated multiunit dosage form containing
aceclofenac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. The pellets
were prepared by using extrusion/spheronization method, and the
core pellets were coated with a pH-sensitive poly(metha)acrylate
copolymer to achieve site-specific drug release.