TY - JOUR
TI - Effect of non-condensable gas on heat conduction in steam sterilization process
AU - Shen Yao
AU - Wang Xiaozhi
AU - Yao Zhuoya
AU - Li Xiangang
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 4
SP - 2489
EP - 2494
PT - Article
AB - Non-condensable gas has an adverse effect on heat conduction in pressure  steam sterilization. An experiment was carefully designed to study the  effect, and a semi-empirical formulation is obtained to predict the maximal  temperature difference between outside and inside of a package. This paper  gives a systematical insight into the non-condensable gas effect, and there  is a threshold of the non-condensable gas concentration, beyond which the  thermal sterilization becomes invalid for complete killing microorganisms.