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AcuAir®  Hygienic Air Units
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AcuAir® Hygienic Air Units

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Overview
AcuAir® Hygienic Air Units are engineered for sanitary food processing environments, ensuring compliance with USDA food safety regulations. These units manage temperature, pressure, and humidity to maintain cleanliness and prevent contamination in food processing areas.
Key Specifications
  • Temperature and Humidity Control: Essential for processing various food products like beef, chicken, pork, dairy, and bakery items.
  • Contaminant Management: Reduces airborne pathogens and condensation, ensuring a sanitary environment.
  • HACCP Compliance: Supports hazard analysis and critical control point assessments.
Environmental Management
  • Condensation Control: Reduces dew point to prevent microbial growth.
  • Temperature Management: Maintains uniform temperatures to limit contaminant activation.
  • Sanitation Air Management: Facilitates quick drying and pathogen removal during wash-downs.
  • Airborne Contaminant Control: Filters air to minimize cross-contamination.
  • Air Migration Control: Manages air pressure to prevent contamination between spaces.
AcuAir Solutions
  • Production Mode: Mixes fresh air with process room air to maintain positive pressure and control air quality.
  • Clean-Up Mode: Uses 100% fresh air to dry and clean surfaces, removing moisture and contaminants.
Specialized Units
  • Makeup Air-Only Units: Provide fresh, conditioned air without recirculation features.
  • CO2 Abatement Units: Remove high CO2 concentrations using dual airstreams and energy recovery.
Control Systems
  • Quantum™ HD Unity Controller: Offers powerful control logic for efficient air processing, compatible with various systems and accessible remotely.
Optional Features
  • Gas Heat: Provides additional heat during production mode.
  • Sequential Defrost: Allows operation in frosted conditions without stopping the unit.
  • Economizer: Utilizes cool outside air to manage internal heat loads.
Additional Features
  • Heating Options: Includes direct and indirect gas heat.
  • Refrigerant and Smoke Detectors: Enhance safety and operational reliability.
  • Drainage and Filtration: Designed for efficient moisture removal and air filtration.
Key Features
  • Room Pressure Control: Maintained by balancing warm air exhaust with incoming cool air, optimizing energy savings through economizer cooling.
  • Direct-Drive Blowers: More efficient and cleaner than belt-driven configurations, equipped with variable-speed drives to minimize energy usage.
  • Motor Service Rails: Facilitate safe and easy handling of heavy fan motors in tight spaces.
  • Epoxy-Coated Cooling Coil Fins: Provide excellent protection against cleaning solutions while maintaining heat transfer properties.
  • Flooded-Surge Vessels: Designed to match system requirements, built to ASME standards for longevity.
  • Parallel Fan Assemblies: Offer redundancy and reduce the size of individual fans and motors, ensuring continuous operation.
  • Indirect-Fired Heaters: Modular gas heaters that maintain efficiency and keep combustion byproducts out of the airstream.
  • Supply-Air Diffusers: Made of stainless steel to prevent corrosion, with features to manage condensation.
  • Return-Air Boxes and Drip Pans: Constructed of stainless steel, insulated, and optionally heated to prevent condensation.
  • Reheat Coils: Used to control humidity by adding sensible heat to chilled air.
  • Recessed Drain Pans: Designed to prevent water stagnation and pathogen growth.
  • HEPA Filters: Ensure delivery of clean, cool, and dry air by filtering airborne particles.
Specifications
  • Standard unit dimensions are provided, with options for alternate dimensions and additional CFM capacity.
Company Information
  • FRICK: A leader in industrial refrigeration with over 135 years of experience, offering a full line of equipment and working with dedicated sales and installation partners.
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SINGLE SOURCE INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION SOLUTIONS Ff'fOlt' INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION Johnson Controls

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When It’s AcuAir Clean, It’s Process Room Clean ® Cleanliness in food process rooms is paramount FRICK® AcuAir systems are precision engineered and painstakingly built to help you meet the food processing requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture. Food safety regulations seek to promote food safety through controlling: Proper and uniform room temperatures are critical for: • Beef • Chicken • Pork • Duck • Turkey Proper humidity levels are critical for: • Process room temperatures • Sanitary wash-down intervals • Condensation on room surfaces • Cleanability of equipment design...

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AcuAir provides temperature, pressure and humidity control for the processing environment. Managing Condensation Food contaminants generally migrate by direct contact or when attached to dirt or water particles. Airborne moisture in contact with cold surfaces increases the likelihood of condensation formation. Water droplets are highly visible and can carry thousands of microbial pathogens. Controlling the dew point of the air reduces the potential for the formation of condensation. FRICK has been in the refrigeration industry for nearly 150 years and has engineered and built environmental control...

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Fresh Air Fresh air in small quantities is mixed with process room air to provide positive air pressure in the space. This supplemental air offsets the air removed by processing equipment or escaping the space through doors and openings. Providing makeup air effectively controls the infiltration of unconditioned air into the process room. Pre-Filter The mixed air is immediately filtered to capture airborne particles that could compromise the integrity of the hygienic process air unit. In addition to enhancing internal cleanliness, these filters economically extend the service life of the AcuAir...

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The AcuAir solution is about continuously flushing the space with dry, clean air and exhausting saturated, dirty air. 100% fresh outside air is drawn into the AcuAir hygienic unit. The fresh air is conditioned for optimal moisture collection and filtered to hygienic quality. The dry, clean air sweeps across the ceilings and walls as it is delivered to the space undergoing cleanup. This dynamic flow of air dries the surfaces it encounters, capturing suspended moisture and drawing it toward the return air opening. Once in the return duct, moisture-laden air is exhausted to the outdoors. Depending...

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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Abatement Units Carbon dioxide exposure is limited by federal regulation. CO2 concentrations are not allowed to exceed 5,000 PPM for continuous occupancy. Receiving and storage areas containing product packed in CO2 pellets will accumulate high levels of airborne CO2 gas. AcuAir CO2 abatement units use dual airstreams to efficiently remove the high concentration of CO2 from the space and replace with conditioned fresh air. Utilizing energy recovery, the conditioned CO2 airstream is used to temper the incoming fresh air, thus reducing the cooling load required to maintain...

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We Make “Smart” Work for You With Quantum™ HD Unity Control Powerful Control Logic The AcuAir Quantum™ HD Unity controller employs the most powerful hygienic air processing control logic in the industry. The combination of innovative technology, powerful software and reliable performance maximizes the efficiency of your hygienic air unit, providing the greatest value available while meeting your air-handling control needs. AcuAir Quantum™ HD-based controls are: • Built to recognized standards that include cUL • Factory-tested prior to shipment • Proven control software • Compatible with new installations...

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Heating Options Typical clean-up heat is direct fired gas heater with a high turndown ratio for accurate temperature control. Other options include: indirect gas heat, steam, etc. [i) Fresh-Air Plenum Inlet plenum and hoods block out rain and snow, and are constructed of a single wall of sheet metal. Materials used in fabrication are selected to match the unit's exterior. Refrigerant Detector Refrigerant-cooled units are equipped with a chemical cell refrigerant gas detector that is connected with the AcuAir controller. Smoke Detector A smoke detector is provided as standard on every unit. The...

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Mixing Box The mixing box is the merge point of the return and the fresh makeup airstreams. Low air velocity prevents water carryover and provides uniform flow into the pre-filters. Controls Standard AcuAir Quantum™ HD computer-based controls are factory-wired to the unit starter/ disconnect and VFD panel. A NEMA 4X remote mode selection panel and optional operator interface touchscreen panel are shipped separately. The AcuAir Quantum™ HD controller comes standard with Ethernet communications capability. Optional AcuAir A-B controls are also available. Fresh- and Return-Air Dampers AcuAir uses...

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Optional Features Gas Heat in Production Some process rooms require additional heat during production mode operation. That happens when the cooling effect of the makeup pressurizing air is greater than the heat load being generated in the space. AcuAir has the ability to apply several technologies to provide and control heat in the process mode. Sequential Defrost Where process room operating temperatures must be low, the likelihood of frost building up on the cooling coil increases. AcuAir has technology that allows the hygienic unit to operate in that frosted cooling coil condition, and defrost...

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Parallel Fan Assemblies Operation of the AcuAir hygienic unit is critical for keeping the process room in production. AcuAir offers the option of parallel plenum fans to provide a degree of redundancy in the event of mechanical failure and to reduce the size of individual fans and motors. Should a fan or motor fail, the remaining fans will continue to operate, providing sufficient air flow to the room and preventing a shutdown of your process space. Motor Service Rails Changing out heavy fan motors inside tight spaces can be both stressful and hazardous, especially under time constraints. AcuAir...

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