A simulated workplace study was conducted to investigate the relation between inhalation exposure and dustiness determined with a rotating drum dustiness tester. Three powders were used in the study, i.e. magnesium stearate, representing a very dusty powder, and aluminium oxide and calcium carbonate, representing low and very low dusty powders, respectively. Two scenarios of handling small volu...

As one of the commonly-used solid dosage forms, pharmaceutical tablets have been widely used to deliver active drugs into the human body, satisfying patient's therapeutic requirements. To manufacture tablets of good quality, diluent powders are generally used in formulation development to increase the bulk of formulations and to bind other inactive ingredients with the active pharmaceutical ing...

Classical methods offer many possibilities to generate powders. Where very small particle sizes especially in spherical shape are required, or highly viscous substances have to be reduced, the limits of traditional processes are reached soon. The solution can be found in high-pressure processes. The PGSS (Particles from Gas Saturated Solutions) process e.g. is suitable for the micronisation of ...

Sol–gel synthesis of powders consisting of regularly shaped submicron silica spheres (∅400–600 nm) is described. IR and absorption spectra of such powders have been obtained. The IR spectra demonstrate that the silica spheres heated at 800 °C are hydroxyl-free. The TEM measurements show that the dimensions of silica nanoparticles do not change during heating. Films of self-organized silica nano...

The functional, nutritional, and antioxidative properties of hydrolyzed herring and herring byproducts (head and gonad) were evaluated. All freeze-dried herring fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) powders were light yellow and contained 77% to 87% protein. The degree of hydrolysis was 18.3%, 13%, 13%, and 10.1%, respectively, for head, whole fish, body, and gonad after 75 min digestion. All FPH powd...

Mechanical alloying (MA) is a solid-state powder processing technique involving repeated cold welding and fracturing of powder particles in a high-energy ball mill. It has been used to obtain nanocrystalline binary system FeNi. Fe and Ni elemental powders have been ball milled in a planetary mill (Pulverisette5, Fritsch) for various times up to several hours. The morphology of the powders was e...

The dielectric nanosize dependence of BaTiO₃ powders was investigated by the slurry method, where two series of BaTiO₃ slurries with 10 vol% and 30 vol% solids loadings were prepared as model samples. Applying the Bruggeman-Hanai equation, the high-frequency limiting permittivity (ε(h)) of the slurries was extracted from the dielectric spectra. The ε(h) of the 10 vol% slurry showed abnormal siz...

Variances in the measurement of properties used to characterize ceramic powders are discussed in the context of the International Energy Agency's study, Annex II, Subtask 2, which includes chemical and physical measurements for five powders: two grades of silicon nitride, and one grade each of silicon carbide, silicon, and zirconia. The analysis presented here includes results for 39 properties...

In this paper, we report the synthesis, the characterization and the scintillation properties of sol-gel derived Lu 2 SiO 5 (LSO) powders. Ce 3+ , Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ doped LSO powders have been synthesized by an original sol-gel process. The purity of the materials has been checked by X-Ray diffraction, confirming the elaboration of monophasic powders even for doped samples. Finally, the scintilla...