Activated carbon is a porous material that has a great character to be used for drug delivery system as carrier.It is agreed that drug carriers maintain the concentration of drugs within the required range for a long period of time and undetermined toxicity resulting from the use of overdoses , the ability to direct the drug to the affected area, immunity, biophysics, and drug efficacy. activated carbon was used in two different particle sizes (0.6µm size with surface area 544.4704 m2/g and 11.042 nm size with surface area 985.6013m2/g ) and Naproxen was used as a drug model. In this research study the effect of the number of parameters, including particle size, weight of drug to carrier weight ratio, on drug loading and temperature, time ,PH solution on mass transfer coefficient in unloading drug. the result of experiments was find that maximum loading efficiency obtain when the particle size of activated carbon was in Nano. size and the ratio of weight drug to AC weight was 1.5. The unloading process was studied by studying the mass transfer coefficient and knowing the effect of the variables on its value ,these variables are time and temperature in addition to the PH value of the solution. The highest value of the mass transfer coefficient was obtained at the beginning of the unloading time ,at temperature 37 co and at solution in PH 6.5 .
New strategies have been developed in the drug delivery system in recent years for applications like pharmacokinetics control, pharmacodynamics, undetermined toxicity, immunity, biophysics, and drug efficacy. The loading process was based on adsorption between activated carbon molecules' surfaces and drug molecules dissolved in ethanol at room temperature, where porous activated carbon has great drug delivery characteristics. The current research is studying the effect of the number of parameters including particle size, the weight of drug to the carrier, weight ratio, drug loading and temperature, time, and pH solution on mass transfer coefficient. The Taguchi program's result shows that the optimum point of maximum loading efficiency is 74% when the activated carbon in nanoparticle was in 11.042 nm size, and 985.6013 m2/g surface area weight drug to AC weight ratio is 1.5. The drug process release obtained an optimum point that gives a better value of mass transfer coefficient of 0.0007777 and 0.0003372 cm/hr in the first hour, 37°C, and pH of 1.5 solutions for both metronidazole/macro AC and metronidazole/Nano AC complexes.
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