Alginate beads are a hydrogel bead with a liquid center. They can be used as a drug delivery model, by loading them with a dye that diffuses out over time. This module focuses on both product and process engineering, two staples of chemical engineering. A system for the automated production of these beads is designed and created by students, and bead geometries and mass transfer properties are then analyzed.
This is the source code associated with the open source teaching module presented by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah, https://betache.wpengine.com/teaching_module/alginate-bead-drug-delivery/