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http://dx.doi.org/10.12654/JCS.2012.28.4.377

Trial Manufacture and Disinfection Evaluation of Anoxic Chamber System for Museum Insects  

Oh, Joonsuk (Conservation Laboratory, The National Folk Museum of Korea)
Choi, Jungeun (Conservation Laboratory, The National Folk Museum of Korea)
Lee, Jangmook (Think People Corporation)
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Journal of Conservation Science / v.28, no.4, 2012 , pp. 377-385 More about this Journal
Abstract
Anoxic treatments using argon and nitrogen gas in controlled atmospheres have been used as a alternative to methyl bromide for insect disinfection in museums. Anoxic chamber system was manufactured and installed at The National Folk Museum of Korea for the first time in Korea. The internal capacity of anoxic chamber is 0.5m3 in which is able to use argon, nitrogen and carbon dioxide gas. This system is equipped with oxygen concentration, temperature and ralative humidity control devices and automatically controlled oxygen concentration from 0.01 to 20%, temperature from 10 to $50^{\circ}C$ and relative humidity 30 to 80%. To control the oxygen concentration, anoxic chamber system is adopted semi-dynamic method which supplies mixture of humidified gas and dry gas whenever oxygen concentration in chamber becomes higher than setting value. It has kept regularly oxygen concentration, temperature and relative humidity for 20 days using argon gas. To evaluate the disinfection of cigarette beetle larvae and adults and varied carpet beetle larvae, the anoxic chamber system maintained 0.01% of oxygen concentration, $25^{\circ}C$ in temperature and 50% in relative humidity for 30 days. Cigarette beetle larvae were killed in 7 days and adults in 3~5 days. And varied carpet beetle larvae were killed in 3 days. It reaches the conclusion form the evaluation this anoxic chamber system can be used to develop anoxic treatment as an alternative of methyl bromide for insect disinfection of infested cultural properties in museums.
Keywords
Anoxic treatment; Anoxic chamber system; Oxygen concentration; Temperature; Relative humidity; Argon; Nitrogen; Disinfection; Cigarette beetle; Varied carpet beetle;
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