Steam Dryness: The measure of the water content of steam deliverd to the sterilizer chamber.Acceptable values are 0.9 or greater (<10% water) for non-metallic loads and 0.95 or greater (<5% water) for metallic loads. Wet steam can cause an unsterile load in two ways: Insufficient energy delivered to the load to sterilize. “wet packs”, making […]

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In the pharmaceutical manufacturing and health-care industries, there are basically two types of steam–process steam and pure steam. Process steam is also known as plant steam, black steam, utility steam, boiler steam etc. Pure steam is sometimes known as clean steam. Process steam is defined as a general purpose steam whose quality is not been […]

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