Does anyone use gas to sterilize equipment?

[panspermian]

Just a thought and I was thinking along the lines of a science lab, but does any one out there use gas.
Science labs use, ethylene oxide, Betapropiolactone and vaporised hydrogen peroxide.
I thought this would be a good idea for bottles, eliminating the need to drip dry.

I usually fill my bottles while there are still a few drops of sanitize solution in them. It shouldn't matter, but if they were dry, I'm sure it would be better.

 

[Womball]

IMHO, you only need to sanitize.I keg, but for the few I bottle for comps I just wash and clean thoroughly then use StarSan in a squirt bottle to sanitize before filling with a counter pressure bottle filler. I fill mine wet.

Gas sounds good, but I don't think it's practical, unless you have all that gear on hand.

 

[Mardoo]

My god that sounds wonderful! And I thought my stir plate and flasks looked suss. Now add a gas hood...

 

[DannyboyDS]

You would need to be 100% sure you regulate the temperature in a controlled environment, if the glass is cooler than the gas temperature it may condense and form a liquid, you do realise they are all water soluble and flamable/oxidizers? so if you had even a small leak over a period of time it could turn an enclosed space into a combustion chamber.

I would be happy to be corrected by an actual chemist though, as I am just a lowly laboratory assistant.