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Pharmaceutical Technology: Controlled Drug Release, Volume 2

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CH. 5] AN OPTIMIZED PROLONGED RELEASE FORMULATION 63<br />

Table 3—Porosimetry measurements<br />

a Pore diameter when cumulative volume is 50%.<br />

(2) It is easy to observe the important effect of UPF: the pore size distributions tend to go to the<br />

right as UPF increases; this means that, for the same accumulated intrusion volume, the mean<br />

pore diameter is smaller as UPF increases.<br />

In accordance with the growing UPF values, the pore size distributions are more to the right<br />

in the following order:<br />

Process<br />

UPF (kN)<br />

Wet granulation 7<br />

Direct compression in Frogerais 7<br />

Direct compression on Betapress 7<br />

Double compression 12<br />

Separate compaction 19<br />

Compaction of the mixture 31<br />

From the analysis, it is possible to suppose that the UPF applied on the Betapress rotary<br />

machine must be found between 7 and 12 kN.<br />

(3) The effect of UPF is verified by observing the similar pore size distributions of the wet<br />

granulation and the direct compression tablets in Frogerais, after 25% of the cumulative<br />

volume.

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