PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF IN-SITU CRYSTALLIZATION IN SPRAY DRYERS
Analysis of in-situ crystallization in spray drying using the T-Tg approach is typically limited to the final particle condition at the outlet.This work explored the significance of the history dependent effect of such T-Tg computation.Analysis was based on actual single droplet drying kinetics at different drying air temperatures.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time ever that reports the changes in droplet Tg, T – Tg, solubility, and supersaturation based on actual experimental drying kinetics data as drying progressed.Using the history dependent approach, a close match between the predicted relative crystallinity and the experimentally measured crystallinity was achieved.On top of that, a new concept of critical crystallization period was validated.This finding also highlights the danger in using the final particle condition, hitherto, as a measure of partial crystallization in spray dried particles.Extended analysis using the nucleation-growth mechanism pointed to the same crystallization phenomenon analogous to the critical crystallization period concept.
Spray drying glass transition WLF nucleation crystal growth lactose critical crystallization period
Woo Meng Wai Fu Nan Chen Xiao Dong
Department of Chemical Engineering,Monash University,Clayton Campus,VIC 3800,Australia Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Xia
国际会议
The 7th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference(第七届亚太地区干燥会议 ADC2011)
天津
英文
1-10
2011-09-18(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)