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Agricultural condensation drying

Agricultural products can be dried and stored regardless of the weather and without using any extra energy.

Agricultural products can be dried and stored regardless of the weather and without using any extra energy.

Growers have to use the unpredictable air outside to dry and store their goods, but the conditions are almost never ideal. Because of climate change, it’s getting harder to tell what the weather will do. This makes it harder and harder to dry and store agricultural products in the open air. Farmers who grow crops are finding it hard to store their goods over the winter without destroying their quality. The solution, agricultural condensation drying, lets farmers set temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels to get the best drying and storage conditions regardless of the weather. This makes their products better, so they can charge better prices for them. They can also sell 30% more and better products, and when they use ENGIE solar energy and a heat pump, the system is even energy positive. The extra cost of this system compared to a traditional system pays for itself in 3 years at most.

Positive facts about Agricultural condensation drying

30% more and better marketable products
80% fewer energy costs
Reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 80% – 100%
0 use of chemical germination inhibitors upon sprouting and 50% less biological sprout inhibitors
100% use of natural refrigerants instead of chemical refrigerants
Less than 3 years payback time
30% more and better marketable products
Subsidies or fiscal deduction up to 40% of the total investment

Video about Agricultural condensation drying

https://www.youtube.com/embed/a4s85Zsk1YY

Agricultural condensation drying website : https://onionstorage.com

Arnaud Michel, founder of Keys for Tomorrow
About the curator

Arnaud Michel is the founder and curator of Keys for Tomorrow. In 2014, his master’s thesis on community currencies and sustainable development won the Prix Recherche at Belgium’s Prix de l’Économie Sociale; the research was later published as Ecological Economics (Elsevier, 2015). He curates this directory to the same standard, cross-checking every project against established certification bodies and directories — including B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and Solar Impulse Foundation — alongside direct research into each project’s own record. Connect on LinkedIn.

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