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Powder Flowability

PSFLOWX1
Powder Flowability


Product number     PSFLOWX1

  • Complaint to USP 1174
  • Indexes the flowability of powders with a high repeatability
  • Supplied with disks for use with a variaty of powders
  • Simple to use
  • Avoids high coefficient of variation in product uniformity
  • Small footprint


Flowabilty may be defined as the powder's ability to flow evenly, by means of gravity and other forces, from the top to the bottom of the hopper and then on to the dosage, compaction, and crushing chambers.

Dr. A. Gioia at the Dow Pharmaceutical Research Labs in Milan defined intrinsic flowability as the property of a powder to flow evenly under the action of gravity and other forces. His technique uses the a flowability index over an arbitrary scale 4 to 40, based on the diameter of the holes within the discs.
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