Industrial Product and Production Processes - Climate Conditions
Recommended design conditions should provide employees a comfortable and healthy indoor work environment together with optimal conditions for the production processes. Unfortunately this is obvious not always possible and often it is necessary to make special arrangements shielding the employees from the production environment.
Design conditions - temperature and humidity - for some common production processes are indicated below:
Industry | Process | Temperature | Relative humidity | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
oC | oF | |||||
min | max | min | max | % | ||
Abrasives | Manufacturing | 26 | 26 | 79 | 79 | 50 |
Ammunition | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 40 | |
Bakery | Flour storage | 16 | 26 | 61 | 79 | 55 - 65 |
Production | 23 | 26 | 73 | 79 | 40 - 70 | |
Billiard Room | 23 | 24 | 73 | 75 | 40 - 50 | |
Bowling Center | Bowling alleys | 23 | 24 | 73 | 75 | 50 - 55 |
Billiard rooms | 23 | 24 | 73 | 75 | ||
Bread | Flour and powdered storage | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 60 |
Fermentation | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 75 | |
Retarding of Dough | 0 | 4 | 32 | 40 | 85 | |
Final Proof | 35 | 49 | 95 | 120 | 85 - 90 | |
Counter flow Cooling | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 80 - 85 | |
Brewing | Hop storage | -2 | 0 | 29 | 32 | 50 - 60 |
Yeast culture room | 80 | |||||
Candy | Chocolate Pan supply air | 13 | 17 | 55 | 62 | 55 - 45 |
Enrobed room | 27 | 29 | 80 | 85 | 30 - 25 | |
Chocolate Cooling Tunnel supply air | 4 | 7 | 40 | 45 | 85 - 70 | |
Hand Dippers | 17 | 17 | 62 | 62 | 45 | |
Molded goods cooling | 4 | 7 | 40 | 45 | 85 - 70 | |
Chocolate Packing room | 18 | 18 | 65 | 65 | 50 | |
Chocolate finished stock storage | 18 | 18 | 65 | 65 | 50 | |
Centers tempering room | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 35 - 30 | |
Marshmallow setting room | 24 | 26 | 75 | 78 | 45 - 40 | |
Grained marshmallows drying | 43 | 43 | 110 | 110 | 40 | |
Gum drying | 52 | 66 | 125 | 150 | 25 - 15 | |
Sanded Gum drying | 38 | 38 | 100 | 100 | 25 - 40 | |
Gum finished stock storage | 10 | 18 | 50 | 65 | 65 | |
Sugar pan supply air | 29 | 41 | 85 | 105 | 30 - 20 | |
Polishing pan supply air | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 50 - 40 | |
Pan rooms | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 35 - 30 | |
Nonpareil Pan supply air | 38 | 49 | 100 | 120 | 20 | |
Hard candy cooling tunnel air | 16 | 21 | 60 | 70 | 55 - 40 | |
Hard candy packing | 21 | 24 | 70 | 75 | 40 - 35 | |
Hard candy storage | 10 | 21 | 50 | 70 | 40 | |
Caramel rooms | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 40 | |
Ceramics | Refractory | 43 | 66 | 110 | 150 | 50 - 90 |
Molding room | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 60 - 70 | |
Clay storage | 16 | 27 | 60 | 80 | 35 - 65 | |
Decalcomania production | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 50 | |
Decoration room | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 50 | |
Cereal | Packaging | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 45 - 50 |
Cheese Curing | Cheddar | 7 | 13 | 45 | 55 | 85 - 90 |
Swiss | 16 | 16 | 60 | 60 | 80 - 85 | |
Blue | 9 | 10 | 48 | 50 | 95 | |
Brick | 16 | 18 | 60 | 65 | 90 | |
Limburger | 16 | 18 | 60 | 65 | 95 | |
Camembert | 12 | 15 | 53 | 59 | 90 | |
Clean rooms | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 40 - 60 | |
Distilling | Grain Storage | 16 | 16 | 60 | 60 | 35 - 40 |
General Manufacturing | 16 | 24 | 60 | 75 | 45 - 60 | |
Aging | 18 | 22 | 65 | 72 | 50 - 60 | |
Fruit Storage | Apples | -1 | 4 | 30 | 40 | 90 |
Apricots | -1 | 0 | 31 | 32 | 90 - 95 | |
Grapefruits (California) | 14 | 16 | 58 | 60 | 85 - 90 | |
Grapefruits (Florida) | 10 | 10 | 50 | 50 | 85 - 90 | |
Grapes (Eastern) | -1 | 0 | 31 | 32 | 85 | |
Grapes (Western) | -1 | -1 | 30 | 31 | 90 - 95 | |
Lemons | 14 | 16 | 58 | 60 | 86 - 88 | |
Oranges (California) | 4 | 7 | 40 | 44 | 85 - 90 | |
Oranges (Florida) | 0 | 1 | 32 | 34 | 85 - 90 | |
Peaches and Nectarines | -1 | -1 | 31 | 31 | 90 | |
Plums | -1 | 0 | 30 | 32 | 90 - 95 | |
Citrus fruits | 3 | 4 | 38 | 40 | 90 - 95 | |
Fur | Storage | -2 | 4 | 28 | 39 | 25 - 40 |
Drying | 43 | 43 | 109 | 109 | ||
Gum | Manufacturing | 25 | 25 | 77 | 77 | 33 |
Rolling | 20 | 20 | 68 | 68 | 63 | |
Stripping | 22 | 22 | 72 | 72 | 53 | |
Breaking | 23 | 23 | 74 | 74 | 47 | |
Wrapping | 23 | 23 | 74 | 74 | 58 | |
Hospitals | Operating, Cystoscopic and fracture rooms | 20 | 24 | 68 | 76 | 50 |
Patient rooms | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 40 - 50 | |
Intensive care unit | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 40 | |
Administrative and service areas | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 30 - 50 | |
Leather | Drying | 21 | 49 | 70 | 120 | 75 |
Storage, winter room temperature | 10 | 16 | 50 | 60 | 40 - 60 | |
Lenses (optical) | Fusing | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 45 |
Grinding | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 80 | |
Libraries and Museums | Normal reading and viewing rooms | 21 | 23 | 70 | 74 | 40 - 50 |
Rare manuscript and Storage Vaults | 21 | 22 | 70 | 72 | 45 | |
Art Storage Areas | 18 | 22 | 65 | 72 | 50 | |
Matches | Manufacture | 22 | 23 | 72 | 74 | 50 |
Drying | 21 | 24 | 70 | 75 | 60 | |
Storage | 16 | 17 | 60 | 62 | 50 - 55 | |
Meat and fish | Beef (fresh) | 0 | 1 | 32 | 34 | 88 - 92 |
Beef (frozen) | -23 | -18 | -10 | 90 - 95 | ||
Fish (fresh) | 1 | 2 | 33 | 35 | 90 - 95 | |
Fish (Frozen) | -23 | -18 | -10 | 90 - 95 | ||
Lamb and Pork (Fresh) | 0 | 1 | 32 | 34 | 85 - 90 | |
Lamb and Pork (Frozen) | -23 | -18 | -10 | 90 - 95 | ||
Mushrooms | Sweating out period | 49 | 60 | 120 | 140 | |
Spawn added | 16 | 24 | 60 | 75 | 100 | |
Growing period | 9 | 16 | 48 | 60 | 80 | |
Storage | 0 | 2 | 32 | 35 | 80 - 85 | |
Paint Applications | Oil paint spraying | 16 | 32 | 60 | 90 | 80 |
Drying oil paints | 15 | 32 | 59 | 90 | 25 - 50 | |
Brush and spray painting | 15 | 27 | 59 | 81 | 25 - 50 | |
Pharmaceuticals | Manufactured powder storage and packing area | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 35 |
Milling room | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 35 | |
Tablet compressing and coating | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 35 | |
Effervescent tablets and powders | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 20 | |
Hypodermic tablets | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 30 | |
Colloids | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 30 - 50 | |
Caught drops | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 40 | |
Glandular products | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 5 - 10 | |
Ampoule manufacturing | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 35 - 50 | |
Gelatin Capsules | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 35 | |
Capsule storage | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 35 | |
Micro-analysis | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 50 | |
Biological manufacturing | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 35 | |
Liver extracts | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 35 | |
Serums | 24 | 24 | 76 | 76 | 50 | |
Animal rooms | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 50 | |
Small animal rooms | 24 | 26 | 75 | 78 | 50 | |
Paper | Binding, cutting, drying, folding, gluing | 15 | 27 | 59 | 81 | 25 - 50 |
Storage of paper | 15 | 27 | 59 | 81 | 34 - 45 | |
Storage of books | 18 | 21 | 64 | 70 | 38 - 50 | |
Plastics | Manufacturing areas thermosetting molding compounds | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 25 - 30 |
Cellophane wrapping | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 45 - 65 | |
Photographic | Development of film | 21 | 24 | 70 | 75 | 60 |
Drying | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 50 | |
Printing | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 70 | |
Cutting | 22 | 22 | 72 | 72 | 65 | |
Plywood | Hot pressing, resin | 32 | 32 | 90 | 90 | 60 - 70 |
Cold pressing | 32 | 32 | 90 | 90 | 15 - 25 | |
Printing | Binding | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 45 |
Folding | 25 | 25 | 77 | 77 | 65 | |
Pressing, general | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 60 - 78 | |
Plate making | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | max 45 | |
Lithographic press room | 24 | 27 | 76 | 80 | 43 - 47 | |
Letterpress and web offset rooms | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 50 | |
Paper storage, letterpress | 21 | 27 | 70 | 80 | 43 - 47 | |
Paper storage, multicolor sheet feed lithography | 24 | 27 | 76 | 80 | 50 - 55 | |
Raw Material Storage | Nuts, insect | 7 | 7 | 45 | 45 | 65 - 75 |
Nuts, rancidity | 1 | 3 | 34 | 38 | 65 - 75 | |
Eggs | -1 | -1 | 30 | 30 | 85 - 90 | |
Chocolate, flats | 18 | 18 | 65 | 65 | 50 | |
Butter | -7 | -7 | 20 | 20 | ||
Dates, figs | 4 | 7 | 40 | 45 | 75 - 65 | |
Corn Syrup | 90 - 100 | |||||
Liquid sugar | 24 | 27 | 75 | 80 | 60 - 50 | |
Rubber-dipped goods | Cementing | 27 | 27 | 80 | 80 | 25 - 30 |
Dipping surgical articles | 24 | 32 | 75 | 90 | 25 - 30 | |
Storage prior to manufacture | 16 | 24 | 60 | 75 | 40 - 50 | |
Laboratory, ASTM standard | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 50 - 55 | |
Textile | Cotton, carding | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 50 |
Cotton, spinning | 15 | 27 | 59 | 81 | 60 - 70 | |
Cotton, weaving | 20 | 24 | 68 | 75 | 70 - 80 | |
Nylon, production | 27 | 27 | 81 | 81 | 50 - 60 | |
Rayon, spinning | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 85 | |
Rayon, twisting | 21 | 21 | 70 | 70 | 65 | |
Silk, spinning | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 65 - 70 | |
Silk, weaving | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 60 - 70 | |
Wool, carding | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 65 - 70 | |
Wool, spinning | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 55 - 60 | |
Wool, weaving | 24 | 27 | 75 | 81 | 50 - 55 | |
Tobacco | Cigar and cigarette making | 21 | 24 | 70 | 75 | 55 - 65 |
Softening | 32 | 32 | 90 | 90 | 85 | |
Stemming and strigging | 24 | 30 | 75 | 86 | 70 | |
Filler tobacco casing conditioning | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 75 | |
Filler tobacco storage and preparation | 26 | 26 | 78 | 78 | 70 | |
Wrapper tobacco storage and conditioning | 24 | 24 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
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