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IPC-1478 filter paper efficiency was evaluated using polystyrene latex and dioctyl phthalate (DOP aerosols). Efficiency was measured as a function of particle size, filtration velocity, and filter mass loading. Experimental results of 0.557-µm and larger particle sizes indicate that this medium has limited effectiveness under high-velocity and high-loading conditions. Differences in efficiency were observed when this medium was tested with solid and liquid aerosols.

Sorption of ethylene oxide during and after gaseous sterilization is influenced by numerous factors. It was found that ethylene oxide desorption not only depends on material to be fumigated but also to a considerable degree on the wrapping material. Although polyethylene, polyamide (nylon), polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon), silicone, aluminum, and glass beads contained no quantities of ethylene oxide detectable by gas chromatography after 72 h of aeration, residual amounts were definitely determined, even after 76 h of aeration in polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinylchloride, paper products, and compound products of various plastics and paper mixtures. Desorption was, in all cases, found to be better when a mixture of ethylene oxide and methyl formate was used instead of pure ethylene oxide.

1. The covalent attachment of pyruvate kinase to filter-paper disks and some kinetic properties of the resultant enzymically active porous sheets are described. 2. A two-enzyme reactor was constructed by using water-insoluble sheets of lactate dehydrogenease in conjunction with the above-mentioned sheets possessing pyruvate kinase activity.

DURING an investigation of the possibility of cross-linking nitrocellulose molecules in solution with silicon esters1,2, some experiments were also made with cellulose itself in the form of filter paper or unsized kraft paper.