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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.

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.

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.