Self-storage and warehouses
Control humidity to preserve stored assets
Protect assets in your self-storage or warehouse facilities with Munters climate control solutions. Exposure to high relative humidity can damage materials. A Munters dehumidifier effectively removes moisture from the air to optimize humidity control in your storage facilities.
Exposure to high relative humidity can damage valuable items. Relative humidity below 50% typically preserves most materials, leaving them unaffected by moisture levels in the air. Producing dry air with a desiccant dehumidifier is the only reliable way to protect your valuable collections, no matter the weather.
While heating is a common method used to control relative humidity, it is not always the best method. Temperature itself has no impact on the quality of materials. In a heated building, the relative humidity can fluctuate between 20-70%, depending on the outdoor conditions, making heating a costly and ineffective way to control humidity.
Using dehumidification instead controls the relative humidity, keeping it constant throughout the year – irrespective of the conditions outside. Reducing the use of heating saves energy while ensuring humidity control protects your stored materials. Safeguard your valuable collections while saving 30-70% in energy costs compared to heating by switching to a Munters dehumidification solution.
Applications for self-storage and warehouse
Self-storage facilities
Hygroscopic items like books, electronics, textiles and furniture are sensitive to fluctuations in relative humidity. Even a heated storage facility experiences periods where humidity levels rise, putting stored items at risk for corrosion, mold, mildew and fungus. Dehumidification provides humidity control, ensuring proper climate control and protection against the potentially damaging effects of moisture throughout the facility.
Replacing heating at unmanned self-storage facilities with Munters desiccant dehumidifiers can provide more effective humidity control and a more protective indoor climate while cutting energy costs by up to 75%. Storage facilities with climate control typically attract more customers since there is little to no risk of damage to stored items due to excessive high humidity.
Munters provides energy-efficient air treatment solutions for indoor and outdoor self-storage facilities. Our low-maintenance equipment ensures climate-controlled conditions for your facility and satisfied customers.
Warehouses
Maintaining relative humidity at consistent levels is vital to maintaining the quality of your products and packaging material before shipping.
There is a direct correlation between high relative humidity and moisture damage. Precise humidity control to keep relative humidity within a given range protect your products, packaging materials and equipment from the potentially damaging effects of excessive moisture in the air. These include soft cardboard that may collapse, textiles that may grow mold, electronic components that may oxidize, and metals that may rust.
Heating storage areas to keep them dry is common, but often costly, way to reduce moisture in the air. Most of the year, it is inefficient since heating is required to raise indoor air above the ambient air temperature. Dehumidifying the air provides humidity control all year round, reducing energy consumption and maintaining the quality of goods stored.
Dehumidification - the optimal solution for your stored goods
Exposure to high relative humidity can damage materials. A dehumidification system effectively removes moisture from the air, providing humidity control in your storage facility.
Munters dehumidifiers remove moisture from the air using a desiccant wheel, which easily attracts and holds water vapor. Air is blown through the rotor (drying wheel) structure and the humidity in the air is absorbed by the hygroscopic desiccant silica gel. The air leaves the rotor as dry air.
“Reliability is key. We opted for a direct replacement and didn’t even consider using anyone else. This is our most critical storage area, and we need a system we can trust. We know we can rely on Munters.”
Stuart Walpole, Process Manager
Floranova
