Research

Dynamic Flowsheet Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

2011 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

October 17, 2011

F. Boukouvala V. Niotis L. Mioduszewski A. Vanarase R. Ramachandran F.J. Muzzio M.G. Ierapetritou

The main purpose of this work is to develop the necessary tools required to integrate, simulate and design continuous manufacturing systems for pharmaceutical powder based products.  The development of a detailed simulation will enable (a) the optimization of the integrated…

Multivariate Analysis and Reduced Order Modeling Based On Discrete Element Method (DEM) Simulations for a Powder Blender

AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

October 20, 2011

Y. Gao F. Boukouvala F.J. Muzzio M.G. Ierapetritou

In this work, a set of Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations are performed based on a computer experimental design for the qualitative and quantitative characterization of a periodic section of a powder blender. Mixing of powders is a crucial operation…

Feasibility analysis of black- box processes using an adaptive sampling kriging-based method

European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering in Halkidiki, Greece

June 01, 2011

F. Boukouvala MG Ierapetritou

Application of Kriging for dynamic data- driven modeling of pharmaceutical processes

AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City

November 11, 2010

F. Boukouvala F.J. Muzzio M.G. Ierapetritou

In emergent technologies it is very common that a functional form for the input-output relationships is unavailable and the process behavior is symbolically described using black-box models. This is the case for many pharmaceutical process operations, for which first-principles models…