JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

List of Experiments:

• 1. Determination of radiation constant of brass, iron, unpainted and painted glass.
• 2. Steam distillation – To calculate the efficiency of steam distillation.
• 3. To determine the overall heat transfer coefficient by heat exchanger.
• 4. Construction of drying curves (for calcium carbonate and starch).
• 5. Determination of moisture content and loss on drying.
• 6. Determination of humidity of air – i) from wet and dry bulb temperatures –use of Dew point method.
• 7. Description of Construction working and application of Pharmaceutical Machinery such as rotary tablet machine, fluidized bed coater, fluid energy mill, de humidifier.
• 8. Size analysis by sieving – To evaluate size distribution of tablet granulations – Construction of various size frequency curves including arithmetic and logarithmic probability plots.
• 9. Size reduction: To verify the laws of size reduction using ball mill and determining Kicks, Rittinger’s, Bond’s coefficients, power requirement and critical speed of Ball Mill.
• 10. Demonstration of colloid mill, planetary mixer, fluidized bed dryer, freeze dryer and such other major equipment.
• 11. Factors affecting Rate of Filtration and Evaporation (Surface area, Concentration and Thickness/ viscosity
• 12. To study the effect of time on the Rate of Crystallization.
• 13. To calculate the uniformity Index for given sample by using Double Cone Blender. RECOMMENDED BOOKS (Latest edition)
• 1. Pharmaceutical Engineering : Practical Manual (Unit Operations), Sudhakara Reddy,Pharmamed Press.
• 2. Remington practice of pharmacy- Martin, Latest edition.