The Humidification Challenge
Excess Moisture Damages Products
The shelf life of produce depends on its storage environment. Without the right moisture levels, produce suppliers and retailers experience high loss percentages. Anything less than 95-99 percent relative humidity (RH) often translates into brown spots, early rotting, and profit loss.
Temperature Fluctuations Damage Products
When the cold storage doors open, warm air causes the temperature to drop below the dew point and the water condenses, drips, and damages. This causes the relative humidity to plummet, and the warmer air draws moisture from wherever it can, including produce.
Humidifiers have the dual challenge of maintaining the right moisture and temperature – without wetting, fluctuating, or failing.
Contaminants Damage Products
And throughout the storage stay, produce must be kept clean. Dust, bacteria, mold, insects, and more can spoil the products.
But eliminating these contaminants is not as simple as keeping the room cold, since too little moisture simply moves dust around, and too much moisture creates mold.
The Self-Evaporative Solution
Non-wetting Humidification Creates Storage Control
Self-evaporative humidification reverses cohesion and boosts adhesion to minimize droplet size and cut their bonds with other water molecules.
The result is humidity that diffuses quickly, covers spaces thoroughly, and evaporates completely. This non-wetting humidity permeates and protects products, even through packaging, without leaving moisture behind.
Keeps Temperatures Stable
Self-evaporative humidification reverses cohesion and boosts adhesion to minimize droplet size and cut their bonds with other water molecules.
The result is humidity that diffuses quickly, covers spaces thoroughly, and evaporates completely. This non-wetting humidity permeates and protects products, even through packaging, without leaving moisture behind.
Protects Products From Contaminants
Because self-evaporative technology is based on altering water-to-water molecular attractions, the droplets attract contaminants and neutralize them. Even when humidity is injected with water-soluble solutions for disinfection and preservation, the moisture always evaporates one hundred percent.
This means produce is one hundred percent covered by a hydrating, sanitizing fog that eliminates dust, bacteria, virus, insects and more. With systems that can operate below zero, self-evaporative humidification reliably keeps products fresh.