Compressed Air Dryers: Boosting hygiene standards in the food & beverage industry

The food and beverage industry invariably depends on compressed air dryers as they find application at various stages of manufacturing, transportation, and packaging of food products.

- Deepesh Upadhyay

Pressurized air drives the various pneumatic machines required for filling cakes, pies, liquid products, etc. while powering conveyors, sorters, mixers, bottling lines, and other equipment involved in various stages of the food processing. However, the utility is not just limited to running pneumatic machines and transcends to other processes such as dehydration of food, dairy processing or agitation, meat processing, food packaging, and vacuum sealing where it comes in direct contact with food.

Elaborating on the application, the fruit and vegetable processing industry makes use of compressed air to clean the containers before filling the products. At the same time, it comes in handy for sorting the products automatically, followed by cutting and shaping food items. It also aids in freezing, canning, and dehydration of fruits and vegetables. Likewise, bakeries employ pressurized air to blow-off food debris from conveyors and equipment for cleaning purposes. Similarly, at the time of packaging in the dairy and juice industries, it supports machine forming, filling, and sealing of gable top cartons. Moreover, compressed air plays an instrumental role in PET bottle manufacturing as well, where it is required for giving the desired shape and size to the bottles. At the same time, it also drives forming, mold press powering, clamping, conveying plastic pellets, and other applications of bottle manufacturing.