PROD333-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Chemical and Healthcare Product Formulation 2A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Unit operations for producing formulated products such as lotions, gels, colloids and suspensions, tableted and particulate materials. Scale-up and operation. Process design, simulation and economic analysis for formulated product manufacture. Batch scheduling and recipe specification. Filling and packaging operations.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of the course you will be able to:
  • Understand issues and apply methods for manufacturing process scale-up
  • Calculate rates of permeation for common gases/vapours across packaging barrier materials
  • Be able to define a feasible industrial process sequence for the production of a range of formulated product types
  • Engage in conceptual design of fragrances, including product safety/labelling
  • Be able to use an industry standard software package to simulate a production process and devise a batch production schedule or continuous process sequence
  • Be able to carry out a detailed process economics analysis of a formulated product manufacturing process
  • Identify and address any areas where cultural issues may arise for Māori or other indigenous groups

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 10:00 E13
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 E13
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 11:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 240
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 13:00 - 16:00 West 230 Formulation Lab
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Assessment

Test (closed-book, 2 hours, Week 5) : 20%
Assignment 1 (3 weeks to complete, due in Week 7): 35%
Assignment 2 (1 week to complete, due in Week 8) : 7.5%
Assignment 3 (1 week to complete, due in Week 9) : 7.5%
Fragrance Design Project (due Week 12) : 30%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $998.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

All PROD333 Occurrences

  • PROD333-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025