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Sorption processes in gas sterilization in the medical sector
- Source :
- Applied microbiology. 26(4)
- Publication Year :
- 1973
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Ethylene Oxide
Paper
Materials science
Time Factors
Formates
Polymers
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Styrenes
chemistry.chemical_compound
Adsorption
Desorption
Methods
Organic chemistry
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Cellulose
Polypropylene
Gossypium
General Immunology and Microbiology
Ethylene oxide
Sterilization
Sorption
General Medicine
Sterilization (microbiology)
Polyethylene
Amides
chemistry
Chemical engineering
Polystyrene
Polyethylenes
Plastics
Aluminum
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00036919
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied microbiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3436785a7749dfc459be5fea8933193f