Experimental design helps to optimize spray drying processes

Experimental design is necessary to identify major experimental parameters linked to a process in order to optimize it and reduce costs. It also helps to reduce the number of experiments and analyze data statistically. This work aims to present some possibilities of how experimental design may be applied in the field of pharmaceutical powders production by spray drying. Depending on the application, powders need particular size, morphology, purity, crystallinity or polymorphism. All these characteristics may be influenced by process parameters and should be controlled to reach pharmaceutical requirements