Worker Safety: Sterilisation with Toxic Gas
This Application
- Ethylene oxide (Etox) C2H40
- Etox monitoring in sterilisation facilities
Other Workers' or Personal Safety Applications
- Polymer manufacturing
- Isocyanate/polyurethane production
- Adhesives and sealants
Other Compounds
- Vinyl Chloride (VC) monomer C2H3Cl
- Acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene (ABS)
- Acrolein C3H4O
- Phosgene COCl2
- A.o. formaldehyde CH2O
Other Areas
- Chemical/process industries
- Building materials industry
Hazards
- Extremely flammable and explosive and/or highly toxic and/or carcinogenic and/or hormone disruptive
Customer
Contract sterilisation service company (Germany, USA, Spain, France, China, UK, Belgium)
Background
The solution was provided for one of the largest companies for worldwide outsourced sterilisation services of medical instruments, packaging for food/pharma, and more.
Local Circumstances
For the purpose of safe working conditions it must be made absolutely sure there are no harmful traces of Etox left in sterilisation chambers and surroundings.
Solution & Results
The customer was offered a customised Synspec GC with a multi-channel selector for sequential measuring of several areas. It was installed, connected with the admittance “safe” system, and continues to run to full satisfaction until today.
