Why your Industrial Food Plant has a Dripping Ceiling and too much CO2 at Floor Level

When I'm an industrial food plants, people are always asking me the same question. They say, Nick, why is it that the carbon dioxide has to end up on the ground people are causing a a safety issue and a hazard for them, and why is it that the moisture has to condense on the ceiling and then dribble of my product on a sanitation problem. And I tell them the answer is gravity for both of those people. So if we look at air and break it down real quick, Air is primarily made up of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and trace gases. Believe it or not, moisture is part of the trace gases. Trace gases account for less than two percent of what is in air and that that's astounding to you because you think about all the rain, moisture problems, mold, condensation of plants, like these things old or derive from less than one to two percent. Is an air. So in any event, getting back to the the question at hand here. So below the components of air, we have nitrogen. And nitrogen has an atomic mass n two as it is found in the atmosphere of twenty eight. So, oxygen, if she's o two, at atomic massive thirty two. So, those are relatively close together. So they tend to mix pretty well and stay pretty consistent, you know. If we go out to, you know, altitudes and the Rockies and things like that, we do have less oxygen or wear that. But it's relatively consistent, so because they're relatively close together. On the other hand, carbon dioxide has atomic mass of forty four as it's a carbon and two oxygens. I'm suspect quite a bit heavier than the twenty eight or the thirty two of nitrogen up. So Therefore, gravity pulls it down towards the earth and that's where it settles. It's heavier where our people are. Right? It's a problem, as we all know. Oyster vapor the other hand is h two o. If we remember back to chemistry in in high school, hydrogen is the lightest element. So two of those doesn't account for very much, plus an oxygen. It only has comic acid eighteen. That means it's quite a bit lighter than all the other stuff. That's why it floats up, it gets displaced and pushed up, pushed ceiling, condenses, falls down. Is the same principle of what makes clouds and rain from the sky. So so that's why. And it's unfortunate because if it was the other way around, the water would just be on the ground and condense and go down the drain and the c o two would just be vented out the ceiling. But The good news is that Polycom understands these principles as experts who can help them. So next time you have a problem with carbon dioxide buildup, foundant condensation dripping up the ceiling, fog, freezing coils, temperature control. Give us a call. And whatever exit you have help. One eight hundred IKEN Drive. I'd be happy to help.