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.

Airocide commercial air purification can be the difference between spoiled produce and significantly extended shelf life. For food processing facilities, cold storage units, and food banks, airflow is pertinent to keeping food fresh, safe and optimal for purchase. So what can you do to ensure your airflow is working to your advantage? Join thousands of customers in installing our Airocide commercial air purifying system.

Go With The Airflow

Our air sanitation units can easily be placed in your facility where they will be most effective. Cold storage facilities with specific temperatures can benefit greatly from the patented photocatalytic oxidation technology. The Technology Developed for Nasa inside each unit kills more than 99.99% of airborne pathogens and VOCs (volatile organic compounds) that pass through its processor. Airocide completely mineralizes threats and converts them to trace amounts of carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Airocide is the natural, harmless, most cost-efficient way to protect your produce from naturally occurring VOCs such as ethylene gas, mold, mildew and bacteria. The airflow our commercial air purification units emit is free of pathogens and odors. What’s more, airflow in your facility from Airocide has NO EMISSIONS, harmful gasses or ozone.

From Stale to Stellar

Ethylene gas causes produce to rapidly ripen and spoil. This can result in stale, odorous air in your storage facility. Organic supermarkets and food processing facilities can rely on Airocide’s air purification to dramatically improve the air and airflow and keep produce fresh without compromising their organic composition.

A produce provider in Illinois stated, “Airocide air sanitation is in operation at W. Newell & Co. because of their commitment to air quality improvement and superior efforts for food safety, quality assurance and shelf-life extension.”

The Effects of Airflow

Providing your facility with powerful air purification affects airflow in a highly beneficial and safe way. Your products will stay fresh longer and be protected against bacteria and VOCs like ethylene gas and mold. With minimal maintenance and proven technology, the airflow from Airocide commercial units will provide clean air to improve food quality and extend shelf life. Benefits you can and will see.

With thousands of units in operation, Airocide provides clean, effective airflow through our commercial air sanitation system. Ask us how you can improve your airflow with Airocide’s commercial air purification today.

Odorless, invisible, and toxic, ethylene gas is among the largest airborne threats to commercial cold storage and food processing facilities. As experts in commercial air purification, we know the importance of controlling ethylene gas. Today, there are thousands of our Airocide units in service, providing an effective solution to ethylene gas. But what is ethylene gas exactly? With decades of experience, we can help you define, identify and control ethylene gas.

An Invisible Threat

Ethylene gas is a naturally occurring gas from plants. It is made up of hydrogen and carbon, which, as a result, means you cannot see or smell it in your facility. In an enclosed environment like cold storage units or food processing facilities, ethylene gas’ elements can build up quickly.

As an airborne volatile organic compound (VOC), ethylene gas silently spoils produce, florals, and other products in your facility if not eliminated. Ethylene gas causes rapid ripening and maturing of products, which significantly reduces their shelf life and quality. If you’ve noticed your food waste increasing, ethylene gas may be the invisible culprit you need to control.

Eliminate Rapid Expiration

Commercial air purification with Airocide keeps your facility clean and safe from the natural gas that accumulates. To increase food quality, shelf life, or maintain safe storage practices, you need to protect your commercial indoor air quality. Keeping a clean facility and eliminating ethylene gas will secure your products’ extended vibrancy.

The easiest and most effective way to control ethylene gas is by utilizing our ethylene gas scrubbers inside each Airocide unit. Ethylene gas is an unseen, airborne VOC, but our air sanitation unit destroys all pathogens that pass through its processor. No emissions, no ozone, no bacteria, no ethylene gas, just clean air.

Pure Results

What is ethylene gas after it goes through an Airocide unit? Trace amounts of carbon dioxide and water vapor. As a result of our patented air purification technology, the air that fills your facility is clean and free of 99.99% of ethylene gas and other airborne pathogens.

Once you install our Airocide system, you will soon see the extended shelf life and benefits of pure air throughout your facility. Read how thousands of our units have helped provide commercial air purification for facilities like yours. For a free facility proposal, send us a message.

Out of sight does not mean out of mind in the cold storage business. But you can have peace of mind when you utilize our Developed for Nasa air sanitation system in your facility. You grow, cultivate and nurture your crop, and now you can get a fresh solution to cold storage air purification with Airocide.

Give a Breath of Fresh Air

Cold storage facilities need to maintain air quality to extend product shelf life. Learn how Airocide helps by improving and protecting indoor air quality, both effectively and cost efficiently. Thus, your products and brands can be in an environment of fresh air that yields more than 99.99% pure air. This fresh, clean air then mixes with remaining contaminated air. After the mixing occurs over several hours, the result is reduction in both airborne microbes and gaseous contamination in the total space.

Airborne pathogens and bacteria are known to cultivate in colder, enclosed facilities. NASA astronauts discovered this and developed our technology to keep airborne threats OUT. Airocide removes airborne mold, VOCs like ethylene gas and pathogens and turns them into trace amounts of water vapor and carbon dioxide. Unlike many other air filters and sanitizers, Airocide does NOT produce any ozone or emissions which are harmful to both your product and people.

Get Your Freshest Product

When ethylene gas and fungal spores are eliminated, your products’ shelf life is extended. As your product shelf life extends, your customers trust and loyalty grows. As your customer base grows, your profits rise. The air quality for your product can be a problem, but the fresh solution to cold storage air purification is simple: Airocide.

Fresh product and happy customers are direct results you can see and measure when you easily install our Airocide unit. Our products have no filters that need changing and do not need to turn off. You can keep your cold storage air purification running and extending your product life 24/7. You can focus on business.

If your products are suffering from premature ripening, wilting or spoiling, the best place to find a fresh solution to cold storage air purification is with Airocide. Contact us to get a free facility proposal today!

Cold storage warehouses, food processors, grocers, wineries, florists, and more know that time is of the essence when it comes to their product freshness. Timing is everything when cultivating, storing and delivering products for sale. With our Airocide air sanitation system, you can be confident in your products’ quality. We’re here to help you discover how to extend product life and boost your profits with one simple solution: clean air.

Start with What You Can’t See

Most of the threats to your products’ shelf life and vibrancy are too small to be seen. For instance, ethylene gas in storage facilities cause increased ripening and withering of fresh crops. It’s odorless and invisible, but it is devastating to your products. Our Developed for Nasa Airocide technology is specifically made to remove ethylene gas and extend product life significantly.

Another unseen but equally troubling threat is that of airborne contaminants. Mold, pathogens, bacteria, fungi, mycotoxins, viruses, allergens and other microbes thrive in closed spaces. You have worked hard to cultivate, harvest, and process your product(s), but now your valuable product is at risk to these airborne threats that can rapidly cause catastrophic damage.

Utilizing a patented Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO) process, contaminated air is continuously processed through Airocide’s bio-conversion reactor bed. All organic material (bacteria, mold, allergens, viruses, VOC’s such as ethylene gas) mineralizes, leaving the exit air 99.99% contaminant free. No ozone or other toxic chemicals or gas are utilized or produced during this process.

By sanitizing and purifying the air with our Airocide system, this leaves you with a peace of mind, cleaner facility, extended shelf life, and customers with the superior freshness and quality they expect.

If your customers rely on your product to be organic, we can help you keep it that way! Airocide is a purifying solution with NO chemicals, NO emissions, and NO ozone.

Finish with High Quality You Can See

When your product suffers a loss, so do your sales. Grocery stores, restaurants, and others rely on their produce providers to deliver the freshest products for their customers. Furthermore, by offering a superior product, your brand will be seen as highly valuable. This will elevate your brand as well as increase your sales in the marketplace.

A radiant product outshines the mediocre. By keeping your facility’s air purified with our Airocide system, you can be confident in your product to outshine the rest with high-quality freshness and give your brand a trusted identity. Customers are sure to remember and prefer your superior product which will boost your profits just by sanitizing your air!

If you’re ready to extend your product life and boost your profits, we’re ready to help. Contact us to see which Airocide product is best for you.