Patent ID: 8236240

Claim:
A method of decontaminating the interior of a sealable enclosure and the contents thereof comprising: a. providing a sealable enclosure and processing means associated therewith; b. sealing said enclosure from fluid communication with unfiltered gas; c. drawing gas into said processing means through an inlet port, d. establishing a flow of filtered gas from said processing means, through a first conduit to said sealed enclosure, through said sealed enclosure, and out an outlet port in said sealed enclosure to a decontaminant vapor disposing means; e. conditioning said flow of filtered gas by pushing, or pulling, it through a constant temperature water based bath contained within said processing means utilizing an air moving means that is also contained within said processing means; f. continuing the conditioning of said flow of filtered gas until the humidity of all of the gas within said sealed enclosure approaches that of the gas exiting the water-based bath; g. introducing a multi-component vapor decontaminant, one component of which is water, into said flow of filtered gas at a first introduction rate so that said flow of gas carries said vapor decontaminant through said first conduit into, through and out of said enclosure; h. continuing the introduction of decontaminant vapor until the percent saturation of said flowing gas stream within said enclosure starts to approach, or is predicted to approach, 100 percent; i. controlling the rate at which said decontaminant vapor is introduced into said flowing gas stream using a feed forward control system to maintain the percent saturation just below 100 percent; j. maintaining the flow of gas and decontaminant vapor into and through said sealable enclosure at least long enough to decontaminate the sealable enclosure and its contents.