Abstract:One of the major mechanisms of deactivating spores is to expose them to elevated temperatures. Experiments carried out in an exposure tube to study the effects on spores in a high temperature gas environment provide evidence of spore deactivation. Microbiological tests show that the more likely reason for spore death is due to either protein damage or some damage to the spore's inner membrane, which are processes that are much slower than heat transfer. 1 In this paper, we employ a coupled water diffusion and … Show more
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