Posts Tagged ‘Air Purification Fruits and Vegetables’

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.