Gain more knowledge about sterilization of solid objects - avoid air

Did you know that it is the direct steam contact that ensures efficient autoclaving – hot air does not sterilize. Air is the autoclave's worst enemy.

The solution is a built-in vacuum pump:

Typical solid objects include empty glassware, pipette tips (in boxes), tubes, and porous materials, such as filters or fabrics.

For this type of sterilization, it is crucial to remove all air from the products to be sterilized, to ensure efficient, precise, reproducible, and validatable sterilization.

The built-in vacuum pump effectively removes the air, allowing the steam to penetrate completely. The process includes a fractional pre-vacuum phase in combination with the steam generator. This is the only way to achieve validatable sterilization of solid items, tubes, and porous materials.