This invention to be the heating sterilization method by the vapor water and something which offers its device, as for this invention being the method where it heats & sterilizes the suffering processing material, the following process The hot water which is heated above the 100C and/or vapor, as this is made to inject to the heating interior of the quasi- airtightness space which is heated above the same temperature continually, the minute waterdrop and the moisture hot water steam are generated, making the air of the above-mentioned heating interior substitute with the above-mentioned minute waterdrop and the moisture hot water steam, of humidity 95% or more and it possesses the constitution of oxygen density 1%, or less it fills up in the gas component which is kept in the temperature range of 90 - the 180C, and with the above-mentioned minute waterdrop and the moisture hot water steam administering continual amplitude heating of temperature difference of the 10C to the suffering processing material at least in the above-mentioned temperature range, heating it sterilizes processesHeating method, and its device of the suffering processing material which features that it heats & sterilizes the suffering processing material, it regards, due to especially.本発明は、気体水による加熱・殺菌方法及びその装置を提供するものであり、本発明は 被処理材料を加熱・殺菌する方法であって、次の工程;100℃以上に加熱された熱水及び/又は水蒸気を、これと同温度以上に加熱された準密閉空間の加熱室内に連続的に噴射させ、微細水滴と湿熱水蒸気を発生させる、上記微細水滴と湿熱水蒸気で上記加熱室内の空気を置換させて、湿度95%以上及び酸素濃度1%以下の組成を有し、90~180℃の温度領域に保持されたガス成分で満たす、及び上記微細水滴と湿熱水蒸気で被処理材料に上記温度領域で少なくとも10℃の温度差の連続振幅加熱を施して加熱・殺菌処理する、ことにより被処理材料を加熱・殺菌することを特徴とする被処理材料の加熱方法、及びその装置、に関する。
