The mechanism of the biocidal effect of an electrochemically activated solution (ANC anolyte) is similar to that of gas plasma, and its degradation products are source substances, i.e. low-mineralized water.

  The ecologically safe electrochemically activated ANC-type anolyte has the life time which is sufficient for disinfection procedures. After being used it degrades spontaneously without producing toxic xenobiotic compounds and does not require neutralization prior to draining to the sewage system. The neutral anolyte ANC produced in the STEL devices is not only an ecologically safe and highly effective agent for disinfecting, pre-sterilization cleaning and sterilization of medical equipment. Moreover, it is an antiseptic which can be spread over the injured and uninjured skin, the mucous coats, cavities and wounds to prevent development of local infection lesions and sepsis. The electrochemically activated neutral anolyte ANC is a multipurpose agent, exterminating all major systematic microbe groups (bacteria, fungi, viruses and candida) without injuring tissue cells of the human body and other higher organisms, i.e. somatic animal cells which are part of a multicellular system. The neutral anolyte is the solution of the basically new type possessing unique biocidal properties and combining features of the washing, disinfecting and sterilizing agent. The activated ANC anolyte produced in the STEL devices kills disease agents of the bacterial, viral and fungous etiology (Staphilococcus aureus, Bacillus pynocyaneus, Escherichia coli bacillus, hepatitis-B virus, poliomyelitis virus, HIV, adenoviruses, TB agents, salmonollosis, dermatomycosis agents et al.) The ANC anolyte considerably exceeds by its efficiency such well-known disinfecting agents as chloramine, sodium hypochlorite etc.

  Positive results were obtained in killing the plague and anthrax agents with the ANC anolyte solutions. High efficiency of the STEL-produced solutions was experimentally proven for decontaminating the combat materiel and equipment with the concurrent degassing as well as for removing toxic components of the missile fuel with the components degrading to non-toxic elementary compounds.