Solenis patents a gentler biocide for food and beverage sterilizers

What Happened

Solenis Technologies patented the use of monochloramine as a sterilizer/pasteurizer biocide that controls bacteria, mold, and biofilm across a wider pH/temperature range than chlorine-based biocides — while causing less equipment corrosion and working at concentrations as low as 1-10 ppm.

Why It Matters

Chlorine-based biocides corrode equipment over time and have a narrower effective pH/temperature range — a monochloramine-based alternative working at 1-10ppm across a wider operating range is a maintenance-cost and uptime win as much as a sterilization one.

Same sterilization power, less corrosion, wider operating range.

FET's Takeaway

Lower required concentrations plus less equipment corrosion is the kind of unglamorous operational-efficiency gain that rarely makes headlines but directly affects a plant's total cost of ownership on sterilization systems.