METHOD FOR STERILIZING OBJECTS WITH OZONE

摘要

A method for sterilizing objects with ozone comprises the steps of: posit ioning the objects in a sterilization chamber (10); effecting an ozone-conta ining gas atmosphere in the sterilization chamber (10); making the ozone-con taining gas circulate via a circulation pipe (20) outside the sterilization room (10), wherein the circulation pipe (20) is provided with an ozone gener ator (60) and a water mouthpiece (73); establishing an air humidity in a ran ge of approximately 80%; establishing an ozone concentration in the gas high er than 0.2 mgr/1; defining in advance an ozone performance equivalent (OPEQ ); measuring the ozone concentration (OC) during the sterilization process o n certain measurement moments; calculating the time integral of the measured ozone concentration; wherein the sterilization process is continued until t he time integral of the measured ozone concentration is minimally equal to t he predetermined ozone performance equivalent.