Principle of ozone water sterilization

Ozone sterilization belongs to the biochemical oxidation reaction, which decomposes the enzymes necessary for the internal oxidation of glucose in bacteria; It can also directly interact with bacteria and viruses, damaging their cell walls and RNA, breaking down macromolecular polymers such as DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides, and disrupting the material metabolism, growth, and reproduction processes of bacteria; It can also penetrate the cell membrane tissue, invade the cell membrane and act on the outer membrane lipoproteins and internal lipopolysaccharides, causing permeability distortion of cells, leading to cell lysis and death. It also dissolves and denatures the genetic genes, parasitic strains, parasitic virus particles, bacteriophages, mycosomes, and pyrogens (bacterial virus metabolites, endotoxins) in the dead bacteria.

The principles of aseptic technology on microorganisms can be divided into three types: antibacterial, bactericidal, and bacteriolytic. The use of ozone as a sterilization agent belongs to bacteriolytic.