What is the Purpose of an Industrial Dehumidifier?
Industrial dehumidifiers are vital pieces of equipment for industries where excess humidity is a key concern. Climate control is mandatory for many manufacturing and industrial businesses within their production, storage and transport areas. Excess humidity can be detrimental to the quality of the product in humidity sensitive industries - making indoor environmental control crucial.
Many large-scale industrial companies utilise industrial dehumidifiers within their facilities to remove unwanted moisture from the internal environment and to control relative humidity and dew point. These systems help to prevent issues with moisture damage, corrosion and condensation. Large production facilities will often install more than one industrial dehumidifier and retrofit them with other HVAC systems.
An indoor environment professional will help determine what kind of industrial dehumidifier will work best for your specific needs taking into account a variety of factors. To find out more on what an indoor environment control specialist will evaluate – check out the Humiscope blog
“How to Choose the Right Dehumidifier”.
Want to know how dehumidifiers work and the benefits of using dehumidifiers? Here is a guide for you!
Applications
Industrial dehumidifiers help maintain precise humidity levels in various industries, food and beverage processing, plastics and healthcare facilities to name a few. They are essential for the preservation of sensitive materials such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, and medical supplies. In factories producing lithium-based products, where components are highly explosive if mixed with even a tiny amount of moisture, these systems create an ultra-dry, ultra-low humidity environment with levels of below -55 dew point, thus achieving a high level of safety.
Applications for Which Industrial Dehumidifiers Are Used:
Food industry
Manufacturing of lithium batteries
Cold storage
Pharmaceutical industry
Defense industry
Turbine industry
Electronic and semiconductor industry. Etc.
The application of industrial dehumidifiers isn’t limited to these sectors. There are also additional sectors in which dehumidifiers aid to control moisture. These include:
Medical Cannabis Growing and Drying
Museums and archives, etc.
Pool rooms
Film drying
Want to know more about the advantages of using an industrial dehumidifier? Here you go!
Benefits of Using an Industrial Dehumidifier
Enhance or regulate product quality: When the ideal temperature and humidity levels are maintained during the production process, you can prevent product stagnation and/or loss and significantly enhance the standard of your product. For example, when dealing with fine powders a dehumidifier will prevent hygroscopic compounds from becoming gluey and sticking together.
Read our Case Study on Pharmaceutical Manufacturing – the detrimental effects of uncontrolled humidity on hygroscopic compounds and the great benefits of commercial dehumidifiers both on the production process and the businesses bottom line.
Prevent condensation. Condensation can harm equipment and in certain situation, cause visibility issues. In areas that are air-conditioned or have a high humidity level, the risk of condensation is particularly high (as a result of production processes). These issues can be resolved using a commercial dehumidifier
Prevent fungal and bacterial growth: To stop the growth of bacteria and fungus in warm, humid and/or poorly ventilated areas is to dry the area with air. The optimal solution is a dehumidifier. It removes the moisture from the air and then reintroduces dry air back into the space. Commercial dehumidifiers have greatly benefited seed storage facilities and medical cannabis growers. They are also successfully used in preservation and storage facilities where archival documentation are extremely sensitive to moisture and humidity.
about industrial dehumidifiers within the Medical Cannabis Industry.
Prevent corrosion: Rust forming on machinery often leads to expensive repairs, and corrosion. The annual cost of corrosion worldwide is $2.5 trillion. Industrial dehumidifiers can prolong the life of materials and stop the corrosion of metals in exposed areas like bridges and water treatment plants.
See how an industrial dehumidifier was crucial for a large dairy producer in reducing corrosion in its power generating boilers
In cold storage: Both temperature and relative humidity of the air when processing and storing delicate goods. A commercial dehumidifier eliminates this worry. Whether you need to keep a whole space dry, a specific step in the production process dry, or after storage or during transport dry, an industrial dehumidifier is the ideal solution.
Meat Production
Read the Humiscope case study highlighting how a leading meat producer optimised production by reducing freezer downtime using dehumidification technology.
Conclusion
Unlike domestic dehumidifiers, industrial dehumidifiers are equipped with a higher moisture removal capacity, necessary fail-safes, and robust construction that ensures dependable operation and meets the demanding conditions of industrial applications.
Industrial dehumidifiers can also dramatically help enhance the shelf life and the quality of the raw material leading to better performance. At Humiscope, we have seen this with clients’ time and time again. Read our blog on the benefits of Industrial Dehumidifiers Within Plastics Manufacturing which highlights the huge benefits to this industry from raw material storage through to the end product quality.