The Clean Room Humidification Challenge
The primary challenge with clean room humidification is maintaining a stable level within the narrow range. Otherwise, the humidity extremes — low and high — can cause the complications below.
Insufficient Clean Room Humidity Causes ESD Buildup
Humidity below 35% relative humidity (RH) causes static levels to increase, creating electrostatic discharge (ESD). ESD can potentially damage sensitive clean room components, cause malfunctions or result in product failures.
Excess Humidity Counteracts Cleanliness
While pumping the air with moisture might suppress ESD and dust, this moisture can cling to surfaces if not evaporated. Puddles, condensation, and other wet spots provide favorable conditions for mold, bacteria and rust.
The Self-Evaporative Solution
Clean room humidification aims to prevent ESD from low humidity and condensation contamination from high humidity. Here are some top tips for maintaining equilibrium and preventing ESD.
Maintaining Equilibrium
Self-evaporative humidification maintains this equilibrium. By stopping moisture from clinging to surfaces, mold or bacteria cannot enter the clean room humidifier system or room.
Due to the decorrelation technology that generates self-evaporating droplets, the droplets oxidize contaminants as they evaporate rather than merely moving them.
Preventing ESD
The speed and even spread of self-evaporative droplets also eliminate ESD. Stable, uniform clean room humidity levels protect rooms from both fluctuations and the low-humidity conditions that trigger ESD events.
Empowering Clean Rooms
Self-evaporative technology reduces static electricity, preserves materials, ensures unparalleled cleanliness and ultimately provides the conditions that clean rooms need to succeed.
Why Humidity in Clean Rooms Matters
A clean room must strictly limit airborne particles, contaminants and pollutants. Humidity levels directly impact product quality, preventing static buildup, corrosion, microbial growth and condensation.
Too high or low humidity will affect the functionality and life span of sensitive manufacturing components. Proper humidity levels are also required for government and company standard compliance, ensuring the quality of your products.
Benefits of Humidifiers for Clean Rooms
Humidifiers are crucial in clean rooms and provide the following benefits:
Controls Static Buildup
Achieving the right humidity level will reduce static electricity in the room. Less static in the room will reduce the attraction of dust and contaminants to surfaces.
Minimizes Airborne Particles
Optimal humidity reduces the movement of airborne particles and microbes. This is especially important in clean rooms to minimize the risk of contamination and airborne illnesses.
Stabilizes Manufacturing Processes
Humidity stabilizes certain manufacturing processes, such as curing or coating items. These processes require precise amounts of moisture in the air.
Provides Employee Comfort
Employees will be more comfortable in a room with controlled humidity, especially during colder months. The right environment will help reduce dryness in their eyes, noses and throats.
Smart Fog’s Clean Room Humidification Systems
At Smart Fog, we prioritize quality clean room humidification systems to keep your environment pure. Browse our available options below to find the right system for your company’s needs.
ES100 Direct Space Humidifier
Our ES100 direct space humidifier can generate non-wetting humidity levels from 1% to 99%. This model is easy to install and modular to merge multiple units as needed.
TS100 In Duct Humidifier
With the TS100 in-duct humidifier, you can maintain precise humidity levels throughout your building. Its self-evaporative technology integrates into new and existing duct systems.
ES100M Portable Industrial Humidifier
The ES100M portable industrial humidifier is on wheels, so it can create sanitary conditions on the go. It can generate humidity levels from 1% to 99% and disinfect rooms using water-dissolving chemicals.
MS100 Custom Grid System
With our custom grid system, you can create a humidification system tailored to your exact needs. It is designed to humidify spaces up to 10,000 square feet, making it ideal for large, specialized facilities.