Granutools team will attend DDL Conference 2022
Filip Francqui, Managing Director at Granutools, will attend Drug Delivery to the Lungs conference in Edinburgh, UK, on December 7-9.
He will present an interesting poster at this conference: Evaluation of Different Powder Characterization Techniques for DPI Performance in Capsule-based Inhalers.
Dry powder inhalers and Granupack
Inhalers have been developed because of difficulties when using the conventional metered-dose inhaler (MDI). Dry powder inhalers (DPI) in general are easier to use than the MDI and cause fewer irritant effects. Unlike the MDI few patients develop a poor inhalation technique with continued use of DPI.
The inspiratory flow necessary to achieve a therapeutic effect is critical with Dry Powder Inhalers (DPI). Moreover, this technology faces various problems: powder aging, agglomeration induced by electrostatic charges, blend homogeneity during capsule filling.