Archive for the ‘Commercial Air Purification’ Category

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.

Photocatalytic Oxidation, or PCO, is the air purification technology that’s used in every single KesAir product to scrub the air of harmful bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Developed for use in the controlled, enclosed spaces of the International Space Station, PCO is a process that produces no harmful emissions – and you can use it to protect your entire food storage or processing facility. 

We’ve adapted this powerful purification technology for use in all kinds of spaces – and it has proven extremely effective in eliminating bacteria, viruses, and other threats like ethylene gas in food storage, all without producing any harmful emissions like ozone. Even better, the entire KesAir lineup consists of FDA Class II listed medical devices – certified safe for use in some of the most sensitive environments. With recorded proof of effectiveness, PCO offers a safe solution to premature spoilage and other problems in food storage – protecting products and employees alike.

Citrus Warehouse PCO Study Results

Not only is Airocide in operation for thousands of customers in North America, our technology can be found all over the globe. For example, a study conducted in the refrigerated citrus warehouse of a produce wholesaler in Valencia, Spain revealed the effectiveness of the Airocide system in reducing mold spores. Two Airocide ACS-100 units were used to purify the air in a 43,400 ft3 warehouse containing oranges. Air samples were taken twice over a seven day period, once at the beginning to establish a baseline for the airborne mold in the facility without Airocide, and once after 7 days with the two units active and on.

After 7 days at a temperature of 54°F, the Airocide PCO air purification system had eliminated 79% of the airborne mold in the refrigerated warehouse. More details on this study are available here on our website, and along with a variety of other studies on our PCO technology, it shows that Airocide effectively reduces those pathogenic threats that contribute to premature spoilage and mold in food storage.

PCO Purification for a Variety of Industries

Wineries, dairies, produce wholesalers, grocery stores, and cold storage facilities all use Airocide to protect their products. KES customers from local food banks to Del Monte Fresh Produce and Whole Foods Market are happy to let us know how well their units are working with real-world results. A broad variety of unit sizes allow us to create PCO air purification systems to fit any application, and they’re even safe enough to use in your back offices.

Find the Right PCO System for Your Facility

Launching the creation of a safe, effective PCO air purification system for your facility is as simple as reaching out to KES for a free facility proposal. We can work to determine which unit is right for your unique application, and how you can effectively use PCO to reduce viruses, mold, bacteria, ethylene, and more in your facility. Reach out for a proposal today, and start protecting your bottom line with PCO technology from KesAir.

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.

Design of Cold Storage for Perishables: Protect the Air with PCO!When designing a cold storage facility, whether for fruits and vegetables, flowers, meat, dairy, or any other perishable product, there’s one key element that can set your facility apart from the rest. The quality of the air, and the effectiveness of your air purification system could mean the difference between storage and spoilage.

Food safety, facility sanitation, and operating costs depend on a system that efficiently and effectively scrubs the air of mold, bacteria, and ethylene gas and other gaseous organic compounds. Airocide is the solution that will let you perfect the design of your cold storage facility, with all the effectiveness of Developed for Nasa photocatalytic oxidation (or PCO).

More Effective Air Purification with PCO Technology

Because of airborne threats like ethylene gas, mold spores, and bacteria, air purification is paramount in cold storage. But, when it comes to items like fruits and vegetables, products can bring in their own contaminants: ethylene gas, mold, and bacteria spores. Even if they’re thoroughly sterilized, ripe fruits and vegetables put off a gas called ethylene, which speeds ripening and can cause certain plants to overripen or spoil. This  volatile organic compound, or VOC, collects in enclosed spaces, affecting other produce items prematurely as more collects.

But there’s a solution, developed for NASA for the space station and perfected for use on earth by the scientists and engineers at KesAir.

Photocatalytic oxidation, otherwise known as PCO, was developed to help astronauts eliminate ethylene from the space station. The VOC was being produced by an experiment on growing food plants in space. Ethylene was ripening the plants too quickly – but after install, the PCO technology eliminated it, and it was found to destroy bacteria and viruses in the air as well.

Designing Cold Storage With Photocatalytic Oxidation

Today, that same PCO air purification technology is available, and it’s the ideal air purification system for the design of your cold storage facility. That’s because, from the very beginning, we’ve been developing PCO air purifiers to fit a wide variety of spaces – developing systems that can effectively and efficiently scrub the air no matter how large or small the space.

With a PCO air purifier installed, you’re killing airborne threats in your refrigerators or coolers. That means bacteria and mold has less of a chance of landing and spoiling delicate produce, and VOCs that would normally circulate in the air are removed completely – converted to harmless trace elements of carbon dioxide and water vapor. With Airocide air purifiers, you can also be sure your entire space is protected – we can use the measurements of your facility to create a custom Airocide system.

It’s easy to use and operate, and low-maintenance as well – and you can even protect your back offices and common areas with the same proven technology, thanks to our AiroPro line of purifiers. To learn more about KesAir Airocide, reach out to talk to a PCO air purification expert. You’ll protect your customers’ products and your bottom line with Developed for Nasa air purification from KesAir.

Could your trucks be the cause of early spoilage? Without proper refrigerated transport air purification, that may well be the case. Refrigerated trucks aren’t always closed systems, but when products are in that enclosed space for a long time, off-gases and bacteria can build up and start to spoil your refrigerated product and perishables. Find out the cause, and discover the solution – read on to learn about Airocide.

The Cause of Spoilage in Transport

Even when properly cleaned, loaded, and secured, there are two major factors that can cause spoilage in your refrigerated transport trucks. Microbes and ethylene gas are a constant threat when storing and transporting perishables, and especially produce. Even if your products have been sanitized, airborne microbes and fungal spores can still land and spoil them.

And in any truck, ripe produce still puts out ethylene gas, a volatile organic compound or VOC. This gas collects inside the truck, regardless of airflow, and accelerates the ripening and spoilage of any other produce on board. Through delays, stops, and any other slowdowns, these threats continue to collect in the refrigerated compartment – and they spread through the air. That means you need a solution that will protect your produce from airborne threats. That solution is Airocide air purifiers.

Stopping Airborne Threats with Airocide

Airocide is capable of dealing with these threats because every Airocide unit contains a Developed for Nasa photocatalytic (PCO) reactor bed built for one purpose: scrubbing the air of airborne threats.

The technology inside Airocide eliminates both organic particles like mold and bacteria, and volatile organic compounds such as the vegetable-wilting gas ethylene. It’s because, instead of trapping particles, Airocide destroys threats at the molecular level. Microbes, fungal spores, and VOCs enter a sealed reaction chamber, and they are converted into harmless trace elements of water vapor and carbon dioxide. The air that circulates through your refrigerated truck is scrubbed of 99.99% of airborne pathogens and threats, meaning your produce is protected from premature spoilage in transport.

The Easy Solution to Spoilage in Refrigerated Transport

Mounting an Airocide air purification unit in your refrigerated truck, trailer, or transport is one of the easiest ways to protect your produce from airborne microbes, ethylene, and more! We have several models for various trailer sizes – plus offerings that can protect your office in our AiroPro line. Make it easy to protect products from airborne threats, discover Airocide today.

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.

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.

Ideal for reducing exposure to viruses, respiratory tract infections, fungi, and allergens, the new AiroPro XL is designed to purify the air in your large workspace. Whether in your office, warehouse, or fulfillment center, you can use the same Technology Developed for Nasa that’s in KES Airocide to protect your entire workforce. Since 2000, our products have been used to defend against airborne contaminants in various industries. Now you can use the AiroPro XL to purify and protect the air in your entire facility. Learn how you can put this powerful technology to work in your large workspace.

Reduce Contaminants and Viruses

Airborne contaminants such as viruses can be a serious threat to the health of your workforce, but with the AiroPro XL, you have powerful air purification for your whole facility. Respiratory tract infections, viruses, bacteria, and allergens are all destroyed as they move through the AiroPro XL system, leaving you with pure, clean air. The AiroPro reduces employee exposure to these threats, keeping your workforce safe.

Proven Air Purification

The AiroPro XL utilizes the same Developed for Nasa photocatalytic oxidation technology as Airocide to reduce contaminants. Air passes through a sealed chamber containing our patented catalyst. As it moves through the unit, proprietary high-intensity PCO lamps activate the catalyst, filling the unit with hydroxyl radicals. These radicals react with and destroy respiratory tract infections, viruses, and allergens – reducing them to trace elements of CO2 and water vapor. Pure air circulates out of the unit.

Thorough Protection

The AiroPro XL can also reduce airborne mold and fungus, bacteria, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A single unit can purify the air in a large office space, and multiple units can be used for warehouses or fulfillment centers. We recommend that you contact us to get a proposal unique to your facility so that your space is fully covered.

Improve Air Quality for Your Workforce

Don’t take chances with the quality of the air in your workplace. Protect the respiratory health of your employees with the AiroPro XL air purifier. Help eliminate and control viruses, bacteria, respiratory tract infections, allergens, and more. Contact us today for your facility proposal, and breathe easier.