What is dry heat sterilization?
Dry heat sterilization is the process of sterilizing containers using hot air. Dry heat can take the form of still or convection. Still heating uses no blowers or moving air. Convection heating uses blowers or fans to keep the heated air moving, reducing the time it takes to heat the environment to the setpoint. Made of stainless steel, carbon steel, or other suitable metals, typical dry heat sterilizers can be used to sterilize animal cages and biological/chemical contaminants. How does dry heat sterilization work? Before the sterilization process, a user runs tests to determine the period of time it will take to heat up the chamber. A temperature test strip is placed in the coolest area of the chamber determining the time taken to reach desired temperature. Hot air then circulates within the system, sterilizing the content for a certain time period at the setpoint temperature. During the sterilization process, the hot air rises and exits from the top of the container. Semi-pierced du
