What is the purpose of widely using steam in pharmaceutical process?

Steam is widely used in the steps of heating, humidification, power driving and drying in pharmaceutical technology. Steam is a good sterilization medium. Pure steam has strong sterilization ability and less impurities, and is mainly used for sterilization of pharmaceutical equipment and systems.

Pure steam can be used for moist heat sterilization and other processes, such as sterilization of equipment and pipelines, and its condensate directly contacts the surface of equipment or articles, or contacts materials used to analyze the properties of articles. Pure steam is also used to humidify air in clean factories, where related materials are directly exposed to air with corresponding purification levels.

? Advantages of steam

1. Steam generator is used for medical sterilization.

The thorough sterilization of medical devices is the focus of hospital work, which can effectively prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Among many sterilization methods, steam sterilization is widely used in the disinfection of medical instruments and has an irreplaceable role. What are the advantages of steam sterilization?

2. Is the steam temperature high? Strong penetrating power

Because high-pressure steam has strong penetration and high temperature, it can kill most bacteria. In addition, the latent heat of steam is large, which can make the object heat up rapidly, and the steam molecules have strong penetrating power, which is easy to solidify and denature protein. The research shows that at the high temperature of 120℃- 130℃, all bacterial spores can be killed within 20 ~ 30 minutes, and the qualified rate of sterilization reaches 100%.