Pharmaceutical Journal  2000;295(11):12-14

Study on preparing cellulose powder as excipient of tablets

Thom Thi Nguyen

Keywords

cellulose

Country

Viet Nam

Language

Vietnamese

Abstract

Bagasse, an abundant available waste has high -cellulose content (more than 38%) and less than 1.5% as content. In Vietnam, bagasse from refinery at VietTri, VanDiem has cellilose content more than 48%. Powdered cellulose, which is used as a tablet diluent, can be prepared from bagasse. Product is a white powder and loses less than 5.7% of its weight when dried. The supernatant liquid of a 10% dispersion in water has a pH of 7.02.