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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / September 2004Steriizing gas or vapour required.
Required to sterilize a commercial sauna on a regular basis. Chlorine & bromine are too corrosive. What about formaldehyde or glyoxal? We also need an anti-fungal and a miticide an an insecticide as well. Is there any common gas to do the job? The idea would be to flood thesauna withthis material and then vent it away the next morning. Please help. > Required to sterilize a commercial sauna on a regular basis. > Chlorine & bromine are too corrosive. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > withthis material and then vent it away the next morning. > Please help. How about a commercial steamer? cb > > Required to sterilize a commercial sauna on a regular basis. > > Chlorine & bromine are too corrosive. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > How about a commercial steamer? > cb A bit hard on the soft furnishings. > Required to sterilize a commercial sauna on a regular basis. > Chlorine & bromine are too corrosive. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > withthis material and then vent it away the next morning. > Please hel You certainly cant use formaldehyde, because it will soak into everything that you use and will leach back out slowly over a long period (it's toxic and carciogenic). You could install a UV system, but remember that UV will disinfect only those things that are directly visible to the light. Hi Scott have you considered Ozone? You can instal an ozonizer with limited ozone generating capacity. The manufacturer should be able to guide you in this regard. Give him the area of the sauna and the manufacturer will tell you howmuch ozone generation is required. Ozone is effective. The other option i have for you is dilute Hydrogen Peroxide. Yes you can actually mist this in the sauna. Its equally effective,leaves no residue per se except water and it will sterilize your room in under 30 minutes. A misting devise should be avialable and its essentially an atomizing devise which sprays fine particles of liquid. In this case the nozzle opening is very small and the liquid is forced out at high pressure. Let me know what you think of it. Regards, Aarif A.Khatri > Hi Scott have you considered Ozone? Nope... it wasnt me that was looking for the disinfection (: > You can instal an ozonizer with > limited ozone generating capacity. The manufacturer should be able to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > and the liquid is forced out at high pressure. Let me know what you > think of it. Regards, Aarif A.Khatri Yeah, I'm no expert, but they sound like they could work to disinfect (not sterilise) the area, especially if there's systems out there already designed for the purpose. It will NOT sterilize. It will reduce counts of exposed vegetative cells of bacteria and fungi. Those in biofilms will not be affected nor will bacterial spores. Get it right. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy > It will NOT sterilize. > It will reduce counts of exposed vegetative cells of bacteria and fungi. Those > in biofilms will not be affected nor will bacterial spores. > Get it right. > There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, > Than are dreamt of in your philosophy I already said that. Like hell , jackass. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy > Like hell , jackass. > > There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, > Than are dreamt of in your philosophy Uh... ok. People like you really make me wonder. PS: See the previous post where it says "they could work to disinfect (not sterilise)" Wonder - no doubt. Perhaps you might get an education and then you might know rather than wonder, moron. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy |
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