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Filtration in the biopharmaceutical industry / edited by Theodore H. Meltzer, Maik W. Jornitz.

Contributor(s): Meltzer, Theodore H | Jornitz, Maik W, 1961-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Marcel Dekker, c1998Description: xiv, 933 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0824798961.Subject(s): Biological products -- Separation | Filters and filtration | Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- MethodologyDDC classification: 660.28
Contents:
Part I: Types of filters -- Part II: Filter characterization -- Part III: Utilitarian considerations -- Part IV: Applications -- Part V: Regulatory considerations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 660.28 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00113618
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Offering a comprehensive examination of developments in the field, this book delineates filtration in a host of applications. Addressing quality, security, economic, process development, and regulatory topics, the book covers pre- and sterility grade filters, charge-modified filter media, and aids to filtration, discusses filter quality assurance, pore size, extractables, and compatibilities in various filters, examines filter design and construction, analyzes integrity testing, test sensitivity, and automation, furnishes novel filtration flow methods, explains filter validation, summarizes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations governing filtration, and more.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Types of filters -- Part II: Filter characterization -- Part III: Utilitarian considerations -- Part IV: Applications -- Part V: Regulatory considerations.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Types of filter: filter aid filtration
  • expanded polytetrafluorethylene membranes and their applications
  • charge-modified filter media
  • prefilter constructions
  • cartridge filters
  • Part 2 Filter characterization
  • quality assurance of filters for fluid clarification
  • the determination of the pore size of fine filtration media
  • extractables and compatibles of filters
  • Part 3 Utilitarian considerations
  • bacterial biofilms in pharmaceutical water systems
  • retention mechanisms