Selecting optimal pharmaceutical excipient formulation from life cycle assessment perspectives: a case study on ibuprofen tablet formulations

• Main Authors: Wang, Danping, Cheow, Wean Sin, Amalina, Nur, Faiezin, Muhammad, Hadinoto, Kunn
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Sustainable Pharmaceuticals; Life Cycle Analysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) is known to produce significantly larger environmental impacts than manufacturing of commodity chemicals. This prompted the pharmaceutical industry to adopt sustainable manufacturing practices for API synthesis. Environmental impacts of pharma...