What is the Process of Making Medicine?
Pharmaceutical manufacturing is the process of producing medications on a large scale as part of the pharmaceutical industry. Milling, granulation, coating, tablet pressing, and other unit operations are examples of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Scale-up Considerations Cooling - While dry ice may be used in a laboratory to increase reaction selectivity, this technique becomes more complicated on an industrial scale. The cost of cooling a traditional reactor to this temperature is high, and the viscosity of the chemicals often increases as temperature falls (making mixing more difficult). This raises the costs associated with stirring more vigorously and substituting components more often, resulting in a non-homogeneous reaction. Finally, lower temperatures may promote the crusting of reagents, intermediates, and byproducts to the reaction vessel over time, resulting in decreased product purity. Solvent Extractions - On a large scale, the choice to add organic solvent to an...