Ravica Blog » transpiration http://www.ravica.com/blog Environmental monitoring solutions that just work Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Best Practices in Humidity Monitoring http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/best-practices-in-humidity-monitoring/ http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/best-practices-in-humidity-monitoring/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:02:16 +0000 Mike Allen http://www.ravica.com/blog/?p=651 With everyone worried about smoke monitoring or temperature monitoring, I thought it high time we post something on humidity monitoring. Today I am excited, as we had an interesting call on humidity sensors for long term apple storage. And I thought cigar humidor humidity was our strangest sale.

Come to find out, apple storage is best done in cold, humid environments. This “Best storage conditions for apples” blog seem pretty informative as well.

Accurate humidity control is the key to maintaining quality fresh produce in cold storage. Cold storage systems inherently remove water vapor from the air in the cooler. Dry air increases what is called ‘transpiration‘ or water loss from the stored product, resulting in lost weight and lost value. Controlled Atmosphere storage at -2° to + 4° C slows down the transpiration process. On the other hand, very low temperature cold storage dries the fruit as water is lost, due to dry cold air.

proper humidity level for fruit storage

Don’t let your fruit get yucky. Contact Ravica for a sensorProbe and receive threshold (i.e. too high or too low) alerts via pager, email or other.

- Mike

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