Patent ID: 8512646
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A61L,B01J

Abstract:
1. A device for generating a sterilizing gas comprising: a methanol gas generation section including a nozzle that sprays methanol supplied from a methanol tank in the form of a mist, wherein the methanol gas generation section vaporizes methanol sprayed via the nozzle to generate a methanol gas; a tubular section arranged on top of the methanol gas generation section and including an upper portion and a lower portion separated from each other by porous metal material capable of heat reflection, wherein an air supply unit is coupled to the upper portion and the tubular section provides a flow path for upwardly directing the methanol gas generated by the methanol gas generation section by natural convection; the tubular section also operating to mix the methanol gas with a predetermined proportion of air supplied from the air supply unit; and a catalyst section arranged on top of the upper portion of the tubular section for turning the methanol gas mixed with the air at the predetermined proportion in the tubular section into radicals by a catalyzed reaction, wherein the catalyst section is formed by stacking a plurality of turn-into-radical reaction catalyst layers, each of the plurality of catalyst layers having been obtained by forming a thin metal sheet to a honeycomb structure.