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SIGNATURE Lab. No. 2
OPERATIONS TEACHER JONATHAN TAPIAS SARABIA

Lab. No.1 – Drying

1. What are the USP methods for determining the moisture of raw materials and finished product?
Explain each of them, at operational and fundamental level.
2. What are the most used drying techniques?
Make a comparison chart, including its justification, equipment, advantages and disadvantages.

Lab. No.2 – Solids Flow

1. What is Bulk Density, Tapped Density, and True Density? Explain formulas.
2. What is the Hausner ratio and the Carr ratio? What is its usefulness?
3. What are the most commonly used lubricants to improve solids flow?

Lab. No.3 – Liquid Mixing

1. What is vortex? Explain why you do not favor the mixing or dissolution of substances. What is a baffle and
what is its use?
2. What is a propeller, a turbine and a paddle? What other types of agitator are there?
3. How a planetary agitator works? What do you use it for?
4. How a UltraTurrax ® works? What do you use it for?

Lab. No.4 – Granulation

1. How dry granulation works? Explain the singularity of this process.

2. How wet granulation works? Explain the singularity of this process.

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Prof. Jonathan Tapias Sarabia Prof: Ronald Jiménez Prof. Vilma Pinzón Fajardo