Research Article

Semicontinuous Blending of Pharmaceutical Ingredients and the Impact of Process Parameters on the Blending Performance of an Integrated Feeder Blender Operating Semicontinuously

Table 2

Flowability categorization based on HR and CI values [36].

Nature of flowCarr indexHausner’s ratio

Excellent flow<101.00–1.11
Good flow11–151.12–1.18
Fair flow16–201.19–1.25
Passable21–251.26–1.34
Poor26–311.35–1.45
Very poor32–371.46–1.59
No flow>38>1.60