Breakage in granulation: A review

The study of breakage in granulation is important from a process and from a product quality perspective. Breakage is considered an important rate process in granulation, and plays roles in granule homogeneity and strength. Understanding this rate process has important implications in the design and control of the granulation process. From a product perspective, the study of breakage has important implications for the subsequent processing, transport, handling and final use of granular products. Breakage behaviour of granules can be a strong signature of the consistency of properties between nominally identical granular products. This paper reviews the study of breakage from the process scale down to the single granule and sub-granule scale, discussing largely experimental results complemented with some modelling results.