PROD333-23S1 (C) Semester One 2023

Chemical and Healthcare Product Formulation 2A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2023
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 May 2023

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

Assessment

1. Mid-Semester Test (20%): (2 hrs, Week 6, Wednesday 29th March, 6.00 pm in Room West 213A, on scale-up)
2. Brief Practical Assignments (20%): Four in total, one handed out in each of Week 5 (packaging film barriers, due Week 7), Week 6 (intellectual property, due Week 8), Week 8 (process economics, due Week 9) and Week 9 (persona for fragrance design, due Week 10). Each worth 5% - online submission via Learn.
3. Fragrance Design Assignment (20%): to be handed out in Week 9, submission due 5.00 pm Fri June 2nd (end of Week 12).
4. Final exam (40%): (During final exam period, date to be confirmed, all topics)

Late submissions of assignments and lab reports are eligible for 50% credit only.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $916.00

International fee $4,488.00

* 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 .

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