Archive for the ‘Air Sanitation’ Category

Anywhere your produce is held, an invisible gas starts to collect. Ethylene is a volatile organic compound – a colorless gas that mature plants produce. It accelerates ripening in fruits and vegetables, and it’s sometimes used deliberately in the produce industry to do just that. But, what happens when a fruit or vegetable reaches optimum ripeness? It continues to produce ethylene, spreading this ripening hormone to nearby produce and hastening spoilage. This can happen during packaging, transportation, and storage – so delivering a fresh, long-lasting product means stopping exposure to ethylene gas at every stage. Here’s how air purification from AiroCide makes it easy and safe, no matter where ethylene collects in your process.

In Packing and Processing

All along your production line, that perfectly ripe produce is outputting ethylene – and removing it requires proper air purification. But, for the protection of your employees and the sensitive produce they handle, your system can’t use potentially toxic chemicals or output any harmful emissions – like some air purifiers do. AiroCide safely disinfects the air of ethylene without using ozone, hydrogen peroxide, or any other harmful chemical, and outputs only pure air. The air purification process used by AiroCide, called photocatalytic oxidation (or PCO), takes place entirely inside a sealed reaction chamber. Your AiroCide unit draws in ethylene, viruses, and other unwanted organic particles like bacteria or fungus and destroys them completely. AiroCide protects your employees as well as your products, and leaves only clean air.

In Cold Storage and Warehousing

Cold storage and warehouses can be large spaces – but they’re just as susceptible to ethylene buildup as anywhere else, and spoilage still occurs. Luckily, a variety of AiroCide models exist, and we can configure our systems to spaces of every size. With the dimensions of your space, you can reach out to get an accurate proposal for a system that will fit your facility and reduce unnecessary spoilage in storage. It can also reduce the instance of fungus and bacteria – protecting your produce in more ways than one.

In Transportation

Transportation is key to delivering fresh produce – and whether your trucks are refrigerated or not, ethylene can still collect around your fruits and vegetables. Stopping ethylene gas during transportation is simple with the right AiroCide model. Your AiroCide unit cleans the air of 99.99% of VOCs like ethylene, as well as any mold or fungus that may land on produce at the last minute.

A Simple and Effective Solution

Stopping ethylene gas at every stage of your product’s journey means reducing spoilage and delivering a more fresh, longer-lasting piece of produce to your customer. Less loss up front and more satisfied buyers at the end is your reward for reducing this VOC! It’s a simple solution with a great result, reach out to our air purification experts to find out how, and start protecting your produce today.

Air exchange is unavoidable in dairy facilities and equipment, when tanks are opened for cleaning and drying and air flows in, for example. But, does the possibility of fungal and bacterial contamination have to come with it? Stopping fungus and preventing impurities from reaching your product is paramount to quality control, whether your product is liquid or solid, fermented or not. But even the most fastidious milk processor is under threat of contamination. Luckily, there is a set of PCO air purifiers designed specifically for dairies.

Fungal spores, bacteria, and other unwanted organic particles can come into your facility on personnel, clothing, equipment, and the air itself, finding a place to settle on or into your tanks. You need to be sure you’re not just stopping and catching threats before they land – you need to eliminate them. A powerful solution exists that goes beyond basic air filtration, and it can be installed anywhere in your facility; from production, to aging and storage, to quality control and your back offices. Discover AiroCide air sanitation for your dairy.

Air Purification for Liquid Milk Processing

Anywhere that outside air can come into contact with your raw materials is a vector for infection. That’s why air purification outside of your equipment is just as important as creating a sanitary environment inside the equipment. With an AiroCide system in place, you can ensure that the air around agitators, storage tanks, and even aseptic filling equipment is pure – without the use of ozone or any other potentially harmful chemicals.

Sanitary Air Protection for Solid Milk Products

Whether it’s cheese or a powdered byproduct, solid milk products are just as sensitive to contamination. First, during culturing, you can create the ideal atmosphere for your product by eliminating bacteriophages and unwanted bacterial strains in the ambient air. Pure air during aging is key, and with proper air sanitation in your aging room you’ll experience less spoilage from mold and fungus. Finally, packaging, storage, and transportation are three areas where spoilage bacteria and mold can still take hold of your product – and there’s an AiroCide unit that will fit your coolers and trucks.

Stopping Bacteria, Yeast, and Fungus in the Air

AiroCide and AiroPro air purifiers protect dairies and more with a technology called photocatalytic oxidation, or PCO, to destroy unwanted organic particles in the air. First, unprocessed air enters a catalyst chamber. Continually-operating high-intensity PCO lamps activate a titanium dioxide catalyst bed, which generates highly reactive hydroxyl radicals. The unwanted particles in the air flowing through the chamber collide and react with the radicals, breaking down into harmless carbon dioxide and water vapor. The reaction is completely contained, and the units put off no harmful emissions – just pure air.

Purification for Your Entire Dairy Facility

AiroCide is suited to production, storage, and transport, while AiroPro is designed for your back offices and common areas. Discover the right solution for your dairy, and reduce spoilage and loss to unwanted impurities and mold. Reach out to an air sanitation expert today to learn more, and see how AiroCide can protect your entire facility.

Mold in any food or beverage production environment is bad news, but in breweries or distilleries, where controlled fermentation is the method of production, it can be absolutely catastrophic. Unfortunately, surface sanitation may just not be enough. Breweries can be high-moisture environments, and in cases where barrel aging is used, humidity is a key factor in retaining your product. Mold, mildew, and wild yeast thrive in moisture, where they can multiply, spread, and disrupt production. That’s why airborne mold control for breweries and distilleries is key – and the right solution doesn’t just protect the integrity of your product either.

Proper mold control can protect employees and even your bottom line. But, the system you choose should be effective without producing any harmful byproducts like ozone. That’s where safe and effective AiroPro technology can help. AiroPro uses a process called photocatalytic oxidation, which kills unwanted organic threats – without creating harmful emissions. Just as mold can have different effects depending on where it is, AiroPro and Airocide protection serves different purposes in different areas and stages of production. Here’s how airborne mold, fungus, and wild yeast can affect your brewery or distillery, and how AiroPro can help you stop it once and for all.

Protecting Your Product from Mold and Wild Yeast

• Ingredient Storage: A quality product comes from pure ingredients. Preventing mold and mildew on grains, hops, and other ingredients is paramount to producing a delicious, consistent, safe product – eliminating mold and fungus spores from the air will ensure ingredients stay clean.
• Production and Fermentation: Ideally, your production area is easy to hose down and clean, but lingering moisture can invite mold growth on walls and equipment. Climate-controlled fermentation rooms can create condensation, and airborne wild yeast could spoil a batch at any time. Preventing airborne mold and yeast from taking hold is simple when you eliminate the threat altogether.
• Barrel Aging: Loss is expected in barrel aging due to condensation, but at higher relative humidities you can retain more product. A higher RH could mean a higher threat of mold – but with AiroPro you can maintain a higher RH without worrying about airborne mold and fungus.
• Cold Storage, Walk-in Cooler: Employees need regular access to cold storage and walk-in coolers, but mold and mildew can take a hold here too. Preventing mold in your cooler will help protect employees and product.
• Tasting Room: Customers and visitors need to know they’re safe – our air purification technology can protect them too. AiroPro products eliminate not only mold and fungus, but bacteria and viruses as well – and we can help you create a system for spaces of any size.
• Back Offices: With AiroPro units, every space is covered. There are units meant for personal offices, meeting rooms, and common areas – as well as production spaces.

Protect Your Products and People With AiroPro

Airborne mold control in breweries and distilleries can help reduce or eliminate product losses due to spoilage, help maintain a healthier atmosphere in your production and tasting areas, and provide peace of mind to customers and employees. We can create an AiroPro system that’s tailor-made to your brewery and provides maximum coverage, so you can focus on brewing a superior product. Reach out to our air purification experts to see how easy and effective it is to implement AiroPro in your facility.

You’re working with an invisible threat all the time. A volatile organic compound, or VOC, is a gas that’s emitted from certain solids or liquids. They contain chemicals that cause adverse health effects depending on the concentration and length of exposure. If you work with fruits, vegetables, or even flowers, you may be aware of spoilage-causing ethylene gas. Ethylene is produced by ripe fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers – so is ethylene a VOC?

What is Ethylene Gas?

The answer is yes, ethylene gas is a VOC. And if you store fruits, vegetables, or even flowers for extended periods, you interact with this invisible threat all the time. It builds up in storage spaces and transportation, speeding up spoilage and reducing the shelf life and quality of your products. It’s a hormone produced by mature plants that causes other plants to mature faster and spoil – and controlling it is paramount to successful storage and transportation for your product.

How to Eliminate Ethylene

You want to control ethylene without producing any harmful emissions in return, like ozone. The best way to eliminate this gas and other VOCs, as well as viruses, mold, and bacteria in your facility, is with commercial air purification with an Airocide unit! Protecting your indoor air quality by destroying ethylene gas will ensure your products’ shelf life and extended vibrancy, whether in cold storage, a warehouse, or even during transport in a sealed truck. And, using an Airocide unit will ensure that no harmful byproducts or gasses circulate in your facility’s air supply.

What Happens to Ethylene in an Airocide Unit

As the VOC ethylene passes through the processor of an Airocide unit, the unit breaks it down via a process called photocatalytic oxidation, or PCO. Proprietary PCO lamps inside the unit activate a catalyst bed below. The catalyst reacts with organic molecules in the air, reducing them to carbon dioxide and water vapor. The only thing that circulates out into your air supply is pure, clean air. No emissions, no ozone, and no more ethylene gas.

Protecting Your Whole Facility

So ethylene gas is a VOC, but it’s easy to control with the right equipment. Airocide and AiroPro HO from KesAir are the VOC-fighting air purification solutions that can protect your product, your facility, and your bottom line. Learn more today about how PCO can be put to use protecting more than just your storage areas, reach out to one of our commercial air purification experts.

Food storage, preparation, and handling requires superior safety – not just to prevent losses but to protect employees and maintain efficiency as well. Even in situations where products have been cleaned and sterilized, airborne bacteria, ethylene gas, and mold threaten your bottom line with lost product and recalls. In operations large and small, air purification is paramount to defend employees and products. This means that an air purifier can’t produce any harmful emissions either. Luckily, there’s a method proven for NASA that’s available for operations of every shape and size. KesAir provides photocatalytic oxidation air purifiers to fit every space in food storage, handling, and production. Read on to find out how this zero-emission air purifier can protect your entire operation – no matter the size.

Developed for Nasa Photocatalytic Oxidation Air Purifiers

While experimenting on growing food plants in space, Developed for Nasa an air purification technology that would eliminate ethylene gas without producing any harmful emissions, such as ozone. We’ve adapted this technology, called photocatalytic oxidation (or PCO), for use in air purifiers here on earth. 

Effective and safe, this technology is also incredibly easy to use and maintain. It’s as simple as mounting the unit, turning it on, and performing some simple maintenance a few times a year. With multiple units, you can protect large areas like production lines and warehouses – but we offer units that are small enough for back offices and break rooms as well. Below are a few use cases where you’ll find these PCO air purifiers.

PCO in Large Spaces

Our Airocide line offers a variety of solutions for large spaces, including a stainless-steel food-grade unit. AiroPro also features units designed for large spaces, such as common rooms and production areas.

• Multiple PCO air purifiers, strategically placed, can protect an entire warehouse full of ripe produce – eliminating ethylene and preventing premature spoilage.
• Breweries and distilleries can use PCO to increase the humidity of their storage area – reducing product losses to evaporation.
• PCO eliminates airborne spoilage bacteria from dairies, production lines, food banks, and cold storage.

PCO in Small Spaces

The AiroPro HO unit is designed specifically for use in facility offices, break rooms, and similar spaces.

• Commercial kitchens and food service spaces can reduce the viruses that cause respiratory illnesses using a PCO air purifier.
• Facility back offices can be protected from bacteria and viruses with no ozone or other harmful emissions.
• Air in clean rooms and quality control labs can remain contaminant-free to preserve testing materials.

Discover Your PCO Air Purification Solution

KES Airocide and AiroPro purifiers are the solution that can be custom-tailored to your space and industry. Learn more about how to defend your entire space – be it production, storage, or even foodservice. Reach out to an expert on PCO air purification here, and get a proposal customized to your facility. Protect employees, products, and yourself from airborne threats – with powerful Developed for Nasa air purification.

Protect employees from illness, stop throwing out product, and defend the integrity of your product. In a controlled food production environment, contaminants are enemy #1 – and controlling them is more than a matter of surface sanitation.

Airborne bacteria, viruses, mold spores, and unwanted yeasts all threaten your product and your workers. Maybe your HVAC has a filter attached, but is that really defending against everything that comes into your facility? Discover an air purification solution that truly scrubs and purifies the air in your dairy, bakery, or meat processing facility – regardless of where it’s circulating from. Find out the difference that KesAir products like Airocide and AiroPro make.

Sanitizing the Air in Dairies, Meat Production, and Bakeries

In each of these industries, contamination is a threat of the highest order. Meat, dairy, and bread are all susceptible to mold and bacteria, causing product to be thrown out, product to spoil on store shelves, or much worse. Additionally, your employees need protection from airborne threats. Airborne viruses, bacteria, and allergens cause lost time, and in the worst cases have even invited legal action. The best air purifier does much more than protect your products – here’s the protection you can expect from our Airocide and AiroPro purifiers.

PPE for Employee Protection

First, KesAir products qualify as PPE under the American Rescue Plan Act and other Covid-19 funding! That means you can get funding to purchase KesAir purifiers to protect your employees. Airocide purifiers are suited for large industrial spaces like production lines and storage facilities, and AiroPro products are designed for common spaces, offices, and large gathering areas. Together, they provide air purification throughout your entire dairy, bakery, or meat processing facility – from the back offices to the production floor. Learn more about requesting Covid-19 relief funding for KesAir PPE on our blog.

Keep More Product – Stop Mold, Yeast, and Bacteria

Airborne mold, yeast, and bacteria infiltrate every space possible. Food processing has rigorous standards for sanitation, of course, but even after sterilization, products can be exposed to contaminants. It can cause all those simple, yet frustrating issues – like bread, meat, or cheese that is off-tasting, or that molds too fast. Proper air purification eliminates airborne mold and bacteria – killing the threat before it lands and grows on your product. Airocide is trusted in QA, lab settings, and clean rooms – the most sterile spaces in foodservice – and you can have that same protection for your product.

Protect Against Contaminants and Recalls

The second worst thing is finding out a batch is contaminated and having to throw it out – the worst? Finding out that a bad batch left the factory. Certain viruses and bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses can be found in the air, and at any time they can land on your product and begin to multiply. Without proper air purification, that gives you coverage beyond the carbon filters in the HVAC system, your product is at risk. A proper air sanitation system, created with the help of KesAir, will cover the air in your entire facility – maintaining pure air around your products and helping reduce contamination.

Constant Pure Air for Your Dairy, Meat Production, or Bakery

Protect your products, protect your employees, and protect your customers – it’s all easy with KesAir air purification in your dairy, meat production, or bakery facility. Airocide and AiroPro provide dual protection out front and in the back – throughout your full facility. Find out how you can create a purification system that’s perfect for your facility. Reach out to us and we’ll work with you to determine the ideal layout for total purification.

Your products, your samples, your employees, and even you yourself deserve protection, right? But unprocessed air is full of threats, like bacteria, viruses, VOCs, fungus, and spores. A carbon air filter alone isn’t enough to protect the air in controlled spaces like the ones you try to maintain in your facility.

Something more powerful will do the trick. On the space station, for example, they use a system that scrubs the air clean without producing emissions back into the delicate atmosphere they maintain onboard. But how can you get the same air purifier technology NASA uses? It’s all available – tailored to your industry’s specific needs – with air sanitation systems from Airocide.

Air Purifier Used for NASA

This air purification technology scrubs the air of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Astronauts were growing plants on the space station, but a VOC called ethylene was building up and accelerating spoilage in their growing room. The closed environment meant VOC-contaminated air couldn’t be vented away. But, the purification solution needed to produce zero emissions so astronauts weren’t breathing in toxic ozone.

A technology called photocatalytic oxidation, or PCO, emerged as the solution. PCO destroyed the ethylene gas, and even other organic threats in the air as well. The purifiers scrubbed pollen, viruses, and bacteria from the air too – and produced no dangerous emissions. At Airocidie, we took exactly that PCO technology and adapted it for use here on earth – providing air purification that was perfect for food testing, transport, preservation, and preparation.

Tailored to Your Space

In cold storage & repacking, foodservice, labs & clean rooms, and dozens of other food service and processing industries, clean air is paramount – for reasons very similar to those of the astronauts on the space station. VOCs like ethylene spoil foods faster, but other contaminants like bacteria interfere with production as well.

And production isn’t one-size-fits-all either – that’s why we’ve developed a wide variety of units that fit facilities of all sizes. From the largest production lines, to clean rooms, to back offices – there’s an Airocide unit that will protect your products and employees.

Find out how you can use the same air purifier used for NASA, all throughout your facility. Reach out to talk about the ideal air sanitation solution for your business.

Preservation is the point of perishable cold storage – but in some ways, it can accelerate spoilage. Increased shelf-life is the key, no matter if your products are in a refrigerator or a deep freezer. At KES Science, we know the cause – and we have the cure. Stop the volatile organic compound that’s affecting your produce in its tracks. Destroy the ethylene in your cold storage areas with Airocide air sanitation units.

Stopping Ethylene in Your Cold Storage

Ethylene is emitted by ripe fruit, vegetables, and other vegetation. It’s a volatile organic compound, or VOC that speeds ripening and spoilage. The average carbon air filter isn’t equipped to deal with VOCs. They suck them up and possibly recirculate them without ever removing them from the air. The key to reducing spoilage in your fridge or freezer is to reduce buildup of Ethylene – using the right technology to do it.

The Right Tool for Slowing Spoilage

Purpose-built for the protection of growing plants and produce, the technology inside Airocide was actually developed for NASA for use on the International Space Station! Growing plants on the station were outputting too much ethylene, causing fast ripening, spoilage, and a buildup of the VOC. The technology, photocatalytic oxidation, was developed to completely break down ethylene and other VOCs and organic molecules into nothing more than trace elements of carbon dioxide and water vapor – releasing no dangerous emissions. That’s the same technology inside every Airocide unit – and in our units it’s just as effective at eliminating VOCs, bacteria, viruses, and other organic threats to your people and products.

One for Every Size Facility

We’ve designed several units to fit any space, from processing, to storage, to repacking. With Airocide units in place, your air will be scrubbed of organic threats. They kill bacteria and viruses that may cause respiratory infections, as well as the VOCs that cause faster spoilage. Not only that, our new AiroPro units can be installed in back offices, common areas, and more for total protection across your entire facility – creating an atmosphere of pure, clean air.

Stop Spoilage and Defend Your Facility

For cold storage facilities, there’s no better answer to the threat of the VOC ethylene. Airocide destroys ethylene and kills bacteria, viruses, and even mold that may affect workers or produce. With AiroPro units to go with it, you can rest assured that you’re covered. Reach out to us today to learn more about each KesAir air sanitation unit, and to find the ones that are right for your facility.

Stopping mold, mildew, bacteria, and other threats in your brewery is paramount to maintaining a consistent and quality product. When it comes to such a delicate process as brewing, you don’t want any outside microorganisms to come in and spoil anything. We have an answer that destroys mold spores, bacteria, and other microscopic airborne threats that could land anywhere in your facility – protecting your production and storage areas, as well as offices, common areas, and anywhere else! It may even help you keep more of your product through aging and storage. Kill threats before they have the chance to land – read on to learn how AiroPro can protect your brewery.

Defend Your Entire Facility

AiroPro is an air sanitation technology that uses a Developed for Nasa purification method. Photocatalytic oxidation, or PCO as it’s called, kills organic threats in the air without producing any dangerous emissions. It all happens inside a sealed reaction chamber, where molecules in the air like viruses, bacteria, mold spores, and more are broken down into harmless trace elements of carbon dioxide and water vapor. We have a variety of models to fit each space in your facility – but there’s one space in particular where you may save even more of your own stock – especially if you barrel age your product.

Barrel Aging at a Higher Relative Humidity?

“The angels” take their share in part due to the relative humidity in your barrel aging room – it has to be maintained at a lower level to prevent mold and mildew. That means some of your product evaporates, as the barrel absorbs and releases moisture. With an AiroPro unit in place, however, you can better manage mold and mildew spores in your brewery aging room – killing them before they land and grow. That means you could set a higher RH without worry – you won’t start growing mushrooms on your barrels and you can keep more of your product!

Protection for You, Your Guests, and Your Employees

Plus, AiroPro and other KesAir products provide protection to you, your guests, and your employees throughout your facility – from the brewing tanks, to the tasting room, all the way to the back office. AiroPro is our line designed for breweries, large common spaces, and smaller private offices, and they – as well as our other products – are covered as PPE in the American Rescue Plan Act. You could get funding to purchase an AiroPro unit! Read here to learn more, and get links to grant programs.

Protect Your Product, Facility, and Yourself

Air sanitation provides a whole host of benefits in industries like brewing, food storage, transport, and more – and you could be protecting your product from spoilage and your employees from respiratory infections. AiroPro is how, find out today how easy it is to install and run AiroPro. Reach out to us to learn more.

Protect your employees, your products, and your investment – all with help from the American Rescue Plan! Airocide and other KesAir air sanitation products like AiroPro with Technology Developed for Nasa are covered under the plan as PPE – and that means you could get grant funding to purchase them for your facility and offices. These are FDA Class II listed Medical Devices, so don’t wait – funding from this and previous COVID-19 relief packages is limited. Here’s how you can use these funds – and what true protection is like with Airocide from KesAir.

Funding From The American Rescue Plan Act

In January of 2021, President Biden announced the American Rescue Plan, a sweeping act that would provide COVID relief and coverage through a variety of public health agencies and out to private companies and citizens. One of the provisions in this act is for personal protective equipment, or PPE. Air sanitation is a powerful protective measure, and our units are covered by the act as PPE – providing you an option that protects your workers as well as so much more. For information on getting a grant from this or any previous COVID relief acts, HHS provides a phenomenal collection of resources, or just visit grants.gov for a full list of agencies providing funding.

What Makes Airocide the Ideal PPE Choice

Not only does Airocide air sanitation protect your storage, freezers, and processing areas from ethylene gas and other airborne nuisances – it can help reduce respiratory tract infections and make your workplace a safer environment. It uses a technology not found in standard air purifiers; a Developed for Nasa process called photocatalytic oxidation (PCO). With a powerful catalyst and high-intensity proprietary lamps, Airocide units kill organic molecules like bacteria, viruses, fungus, mold, pollen, and even volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, all happening within the sealed catalyst chamber. This technology produces zero emissions – with no ozone or any harmful chemicals or gasses. In fact, Airocide and other KesAir products are listed as FDA Class II Medical Devices.

Airocide protects your employees and products in freezers, storage areas, transportation, and all along your production and processing lines, and our AiroPro line can be used to protect staff in your offices and common areas as well. Both air sanitation lines are covered as PPE under the American Rescue Plan.

Protect Your Employees Like Never Before

Don’t wait, limited funding is available for PPE. Learn more about Airocide, AiroPro, and how you can protect your employees, products, and facility with KesAir products. Learn more about American Rescue Plan grant funding and then reach out to us to start your journey to cleaner, safer air.