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MUNTERS BRING A TOUCH OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE DALES

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29/11/2006

Yorkshire company Bare Earth are bringing a touch of South Africa to the Yorkshire Dales. For centuries sun-drying meat was the primary means of preserving food. Biltong can now be enjoyed as a premium quality snack, reflecting today's demand for natural, wholesome a convenience foods. Bare Earth have taken traditional African recipes and cure their Biltong in purpose-built drying rooms in the North Yorkshire village of Melmerby.

Part of the process is to cure the beef after it has been marinated in various spices. The beef is placed on racks in a special chamber and then cured over a number of hours. One of the problems with this process is that there is moisture in the beef which is prolonging the curing X15 process and not drying it out sufficiently.

Bare Earth contacted Munters, the humidity experts, to rectify this problem. The answer was to install a Munters desiccant dehumidifier to maintain the relative humidity (RH) of the drying chamber at 50%RH or lower. This has resulted in a consistent RH being maintained in the chamber and therefore producing a consistently high quality product.

The Munters process - how it works

The principle of Munters desiccant dehumidifiers is very simple. Moisture is absorbed onto a slowly-revolving desiccant wheel as the air passes through. A small heater reactivates the wheel in another air-stream and drives off the moisture which has collected on the drying side of the dehumidifier. This is either vented outside the building or collected as condensation and discharged. As all the moisture is removed as water vapour by the desiccant wheel, the dehumidifier can operate effectively even at very low temperatures and still maintain the desired humidity conditions.

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