Commercially available alumina powders having an average particle size of <1 mu m were spray dried to granules from aqueous slurries of different solid loadings. Spray drying is a one step granulation technique for obtaining the free flowing granules with desired sizes and morphologies from slurries. These free flowing spray dried granules on subsequent compaction processing results in the powder compacts with high densities and strength. The spray dried granules were evaluated for their flow properties in terms of cohesion index, compaction coefficient, powder flow speed dependency and caking properties using a powder flow analyzer attached to a texture analyzer. Spray-dried granules exhibited the cohesive index value of similar to 6.5 compared to a value of 16 for the commercially available powder. It is observed that a good correlation can be elucidated with respect to the powder particle size, surface area and morphology. The cake height ratio and compaction coefficient also complimented the above results. Powder flow analysis is an effective method to correlate the flow properties of the ceramic powders with the morphology, granule size and their distribution. (C) 2013 The Society of Powder Technology Japan. Published by Elsevier B.V. and The Society of Powder Technology Japan. All rights reserved.