Emulsion Stability and Solvent Extraction Equipment Design in the Pharmaceutical Industry

该项目旨在开发可靠的预测大规模的液体萃取塔的性能。 这将通过对葛兰素史克在仙女港生物碱工厂的操作中的柱的研究来完成。 此外，将进行杂质对液体分散体聚结速率的影响的详细研究，因为这是柱性能中的重要速率限制步骤。 对葛兰素史克的好处将是一个更有效和优化的工厂。 澳大利亚加工工业的好处是一种可靠的方法，将小规模试验与全尺寸柱性能联系起来，这是目前矿物工业中的一个重要问题。

The project aims at developing reliable prediction of large scale performance of liquid extraction columns. This will be done through a study of the columns in operation at GlaxoSmithKline's operation at Port Fairy alkaloids plant. In addition a detailed study of the influence of impurities on the coalescence rate of liquid dispersions will be undertaken as this is an important rate limiting step in column performance. The benefit to GlaxoSmithKline will be a more efficient and optimised plant. The benefit to Australian processing industries is a reliable method of relating small scale trials to full size column performance which is a significent problem in the minerals industry at present.