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ArticleAIChE journal. American Institute of Chemical Engineers2023

Quality-by-control of intensified continuous filtration-drying of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Francesco Destro, Massimiliano Barolo, Zoltan K Nagy

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Article in AIChE journal. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Francesco DestroCAPE-Lab-Computer-Aided Process Engineering Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0977-0672
Massimiliano BaroloCAPE-Lab-Computer-Aided Process Engineering Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8125-5704
Zoltan K NagyDavidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4787-6678

Funding

FDA HHS U01 FD006738
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Continuous manufacturing and closed-loop quality control are emerging technologies that are pivotal for next-generation pharmaceutical modernization. We develop a process control framework for a continuous carousel for integrated filtration-drying of crystallization slurries. The proposed control system includes model-based monitoring and control routines, such as state estimation and real-time optimization, implemented in a hierarchical, three-layer quality-by-control (QbC) framework. We implement the control system in ContCarSim, a publicly available carousel simulator. We benchmark the proposed control system against simpler methods, comprising a reduced subset of the elements of the overall control system, and against open-loop operation (the current standard in pharmaceutical manufacturing). The proposed control system demonstrates superior performance in terms of higher consistency in product quality and increased productivity, proving the benefits of closed-loop control and of model-based techniques in pharmaceutical manufacturing. This study represents a step forward toward end-to-end continuous pharmaceutical processing, and in the evolution of quality-by-design toward quality-by-control.

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continuous pharmaceutical manufacturingprocess controlquality-by-designreal-time optimizationsoft sensor

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PMID38633424
PMCPMC11022276

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