Disclosed are compositions and methods for inactivating one or more enzymes in a biological sample.

Provided is a method for catalytically reducing selenium. Hydrogen peroxide is used as a catalyst, and a reducer is added to a hexavalent-selenium-containing solution for reaction so as to reduce the selenium to elemental selenium, wherein the standard oxidation-reduction potential of the reducer is lower than the standard oxidation-reduction potential of the conversion of the hexavalent selenium to elemental selenium. The present method can further reduce a hexavalent-selenium element-containing selenic acid or selenate solution to an elemental selenium product in one step. In the present method, the hydrogen peroxide effectively lowers the descending speed of the reduction potential of the solution while having a catalytic effect, so that the reduction reaction process is carried out gently, thereby effectively preventing the selenium in the solution from overreducing to generate negatively bivalent selenium ions or compounds thereof, and solving problems such as a low recovery rate caused by selenium overreduction.

A method according one embodiment includes at least one of bubbling dried air through a hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a first hydrogen peroxide vapor, and passing dried air from the moisture trap into a headspace above the hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a second hydrogen peroxide vapor. Additional systems and methods are also presented.

A method according one embodiment includes at least one of bubbling dried air through a hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a first hydrogen peroxide vapor, and passing dried air from the moisture trap into a headspace above the hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a second hydrogen peroxide vapor. Additional systems and methods are also presented.

A sterilization, disinfection, sanitization, or decontamination system having a chamber defining a region, and a generator for creating a free radical effluent with reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and other species and/or a vaporizer. A closed loop circulating system without a free-radical destroyer is provided for supplying the mixture of free radicals from the generator mixed with the hydrogen peroxide solution in the form of the effluent to the chamber. The system is used in sterilizing, disinfecting, sanitizing, or decontaminating items in the chamber or room and, with a wound chamber, in treating wounds on a body. The wound chamber may be designed to maintain separation from wounds being treated. Various embodiments can control moisture to reduce or avoid unwanted condensation. Some embodiments can be incorporated into an appliance having a closed space, such as a washing machine. Some embodiments may include a residual coating device that deposits a bactericidal coating on sterilized items.

The invention relates to a method for generating a product gas stream (G), comprising the steps: provision of a process gas stream (P), generation of a reactive gas stream (R) from the process gas stream (P) at reduced pressure, provision of a compressed gas stream (D) and mixing the reactive gas stream (R) with the compressed gas stream (D) with formation of a product gas stream (G).

The invention further relates to an apparatus (1) for generating a product gas stream (G), comprising a discharge chamber (2), a compressed gas line (12), a reactive gas line (11), which is realized separately from the compressed gas line (12), a product gas line (13) and a mixing chamber (3), which can be brought into flow connection with the compressed gas line (12) and the reactive gas line (11) in such a way, in that, in the mixing chamber (3), the compressed gas stream (D) can be mixed with the reactive gas stream (R) to form a product gas stream (G), wherein the mixing chamber (3) can be brought into flow connection with the product gas line (13) in such a way that the product gas stream (13) can be discharged from the apparatus (1) by means of the product gas line (13).

The invention relates to a method for generating a product gas stream (G), comprising the steps: provision of a process gas stream (P), generation of a reactive gas stream (R) from the process gas stream (P) at reduced pressure, provision of a compressed gas stream (D) and mixing the reactive gas stream (R) with the compressed gas stream (D) with formation of a product gas stream (G).

The invention further relates to an apparatus (1) for generating a product gas stream (G), comprising a discharge chamber (2), a compressed gas line (12), a reactive gas line (11), which is realized separately from the compressed gas line (12), a product gas line (13) and a mixing chamber (3), which can be brought into flow connection with the compressed gas line (12) and the reactive gas line (11) in such a way, in that, in the mixing chamber (3), the compressed gas stream (D) can be mixed with the reactive gas stream (R) to form a product gas stream (G), wherein the mixing chamber (3) can be brought into flow connection with the product gas line (13) in such a way that the product gas stream (13) can be discharged from the apparatus (1) by means of the product gas line (13).

A method of reducing a concentration of hydrogen peroxide from wastewater includes diluting the wastewater with water having a lower concentration of hydrogen peroxide than the wastewater to produce a diluted wastewater, contacting the diluted wastewater with a dissolved iron compound at an acidic pH to form a partially treated wastewater having a lower concentration of hydrogen peroxide than the diluted wastewater, and precipitating iron solids from the partially treated wastewater by raising a pH of the partially treated wastewater to form a neutralized partially treated wastewater.

Method of emitting peroxide vapors or mixtures thereof, where the hydrogen peroxide is placed into a vessel, whereupon an initiator, catalyst or their precursorferrocene is added, from which the initiator or catalyst is created by reaction with peroxide or peroxide mixture.

Method of emitting peroxide vapors or mixtures thereof, where the hydrogen peroxide is placed into a vessel, whereupon an initiator, catalyst or their precursorferrocene is added, from which the initiator or catalyst is created by reaction with peroxide or peroxide mixture.