Process Air Handling / Production Air Conditioning / Industrial Air Management Systems

Anytherms product portfolio and heat exchange solutions focus on air handling in demanding industrial processes such as food, dairy, chemical and pharmaceuticalapplications. Our Air Handling Units are widely used within the global process industry. Due to our flexible design, enabling us to customize every unit for the specific production air needs, our products are the perfect choise for a variety of process applications such as:

Milk powder / infant formula
Coffe powder
Protein powder
Starch
Hormons
Vitamins
Fertilizers
Lithium batteries
and many more!

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All our heat exchangers are custom made according to the customers needs and specifications. Usually, our units are:

fully welded
sanitary-designed / hygenic executions
with extractable elements (for cleaning and inspection)
with insulated casings
but always custom made for our customers process needs!

Our units condition the process air by means of:

heating
cooling
dehumidification
filtration
noise absorption
and more!

References of our Heat Exchanger Portfolio for Industrial Process Air Handling Applications

Our HEAT EXCHANGER PORTFOLIO for demanding air handling Applications

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IN DETAIL: ANYTHERM’S PROCESS AIR HANDLING / PRODUCTION AIR CONDITIONING / INDUSTRIAL AIR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Optimized Solutions for Industrial Air Management

In industries where precise air management is crucial, Anytherm AG offers advanced Process Air Handling / Production Air Conditioning / Industrial Air Management Systems (depending on the terminology). These solutions are engineered to meet the specific needs of various demanding industries, such as food processing, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, where air quality and temperature control are vital for optimal production outcomes.

Tailored Air Handling Solutions

At Anytherm, we specialize in the development of customized air handling units (AHUs) that cater to the unique demands of industrial environments. Our systems are designed to handle small to large volumes of air, ensuring consistent temperature and humidity control, which is essential for maintaining product quality and safety. These units are particularly effective in industries requiring stringent hygiene standards, like food/dairy and pharmaceutical applications.

Key Features of Anytherm’s Air Handling Units:

Custom Engineering: Each unit is bespoke, tailored to the specific process requirements of our clients. Whether you need air intake units, dehumidification systems, or heat recovery solutions, Anytherm’s AHUs are built to optimize your industrial processes.
High-Quality Materials: We use durable materials such as stainless steel (AISI 304 or AISI 316), usually pickled and passivated in 2B finish, ensuring longevity and hygiene compliance in even the most demanding environments.
Energy Efficiency: Our systems are designed with energy recovery in mind. Integrating heat exchangers that reclaim and recycle thermal energy from exhaust air or other heat sources is one of our core competencies. We can significantly reduce our customers energy consumption and operational costs while minimizing environmental impact.
Flexible Design: Anytherm’s AHUs are tailor made, allowing for easy integration of additional components such as filters, fans, and heaters. This flexibility ensures that the systems can be adapted to various industrial processes without compromising efficiency.

Process Air Treatment for Industrial Environments

In various industrial sectors, precise control over process air treatment is essential to ensure consistent product quality and operational efficiency. Anytherm AG provides customized air handling units (AHUs) with advanced heat exchangers designed to meet the specific needs of demanding industrial environments.

Key Benefits of Anytherm’s Process Air Treatment Solutions:

High Thermal Efficiency: Our heat exchangers are engineered to maximize heat transfer, providing reliable temperature and humidity control across a wide range of industrial processes.
Durability and Sanitary Design: Built with fully welded stainless steel, our air handling units meet the highest standards for durability and hygiene, making them suitable for industries where cleanliness and product safety are paramount.
Ease of Maintenance: Extractable Heat Exchange Elementes and integrated Cleaning in Place (CIP) systems ensure that our units can be maintained efficiently, reducing downtime and maintaining peak performance.
Energy Recovery: By optimally incorporating heat recovery technologies, our systems can reclaim energy from exhaust air and other heat sources, reducing overall energy consumption and contributing to more sustainable operations.

Comprehensive Air Handling for Industrial Environments

Anytherm’s Production Air Conditioning and Air Handling Units (AHUs) are designed to maintain optimal environmental conditions in industrial settings. Our systems ensure that temperature, humidity, and air quality can precisely be controlled to meet the specific needs of each application.

Advantages of Anytherm’s Industrial Air Handling Systems:

Customized Solutions: Each system is designed to meet the unique requirements of the industrial environment, ensuring that air quality and temperature are maintained consistently.
Flexibility and Controllability: Our units are optimally engineered to meet all process requirements and load cases specified by our customers. Our unique knowhow in demanding utility applications such as steam heating and heat recovery ensures optimally designed units enabling multiple use cases.
Versatile Applications: Our air handling solutions are suitable for a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and more, where reliable air management is crucial for maintaining product integrity and process efficiency.
Energy Optimized: At Anytherm, we recognize the importance of energy efficiency in industrial operations. Our Industrial Air Management Systems are designed not only to provide high performance but also to reduce energy consumption through optimal design and innovative heat recovery technologies.

IN DETAIL: AIR HANDLING UNITS FOR PROCESS AIR CONDITIONING – ANYTHERM USP’S COMPARED TO TYPICAL HVAC SOLUTIONS

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1. Custom Engineering and Flexible Design

At Anytherm, our Air Handling Units (AHUs) are always custom-designed to meet the specific process air requirements of each customer. Unlike standard HVAC systems, we design our units to cover all operating scenarios specified by the customer with a thermodynamically optimal and cost-efficient system. The flexibility of our design allows for the integration of various components, including steam, hot water, ice water, and oil heat exchangers, electric air heaters, desiccant wheels, filters, noise absorbers, and CIP systems.

Our units feature extendable components that allow for easy inspection, maintenance, cleaning, and replacement. This is particularly crucial when implementing multiple units, where perfect system integration is essential, especially in heat recovery systems. Our heat exchangers are manufactured to industrial standards and typically come with thicker, more robust fins, often in a fin-block design where fins encircle multiple tubes, making the construction even more stable.

2. High-Quality Materials and Construction Techniques

A key difference from typical HVAC systems is our consistent use of high-quality materials and specialized construction techniques. While many HVAC applications use copper tubes for heat exchangers, we always use stainless steel tubes for industrial applications. Our fin thickness is generally greater than that of HVAC units. For standard process air units, we often use durable 0.4 mm aluminum fins in a stable fin-block design with corrugated fins to optimize heat transfer through turbulence, thereby minimizing both the required heat exchanger surface area and costs.

For more demanding applications, such as heat recovery systems with polluted or chemically laden exhaust air, we use stainless steel fins that offer higher chemical resistance, improved CIP cleanability, and longer service life. All housing components of our units are made of high-quality stainless steel and are fully welded to meet hygiene standards and ensure easy cleaning. Specifically, for our steam-based heat exchangers, we use certified welding processes performed by certified welders to meet the high demands for pressure resistance and safety.

3. Superior Energy Efficiency and Recovery Capabilities

Our systems are characterized by their exceptional energy efficiency and recovery capabilities. Anytherm combines the expertise of a team of certified energy consultants and experts in industrial heat recovery with another team of experienced professionals in heat exchange and air handling unit construction, with decades of industry experience. This unique combination enables the development of systems that are both energetically and constructively optimized to achieve maximum energy recovery while ensuring high reliability and practical applicability.

We strive to achieve the physical-thermodynamic maximum when designing our heat recovery systems, for example, by examining whether exhaust air can be cooled below the condensation temperature without compromising the system’s lifespan. In doing so, we consider not only investment costs but also in-depth analyses of operating costs, even in discontinuous batch processes. This allows us to develop life-cycle optimized systems that are both energy- and cost-efficient. Our extensive experience in the process industry and our knowledge of process integration set us apart from typical HVAC providers.

4. Modular Design and Precise Process Integration

Our systems are fully customized and offer high flexibility to meet the specific requirements and space constraints of our customers. Leveraging our extensive expertise in the process industry, we ensure optimal integration of our equipment into industrial processes. We are particularly specialized in the integration and design of complex steam applications, such as steam-air heater systems, where many things can theoretically go wrong. The greatest risk here comes from water hammer, which can occur due to improper operation or integration and can damage even the most robust systems.

To minimize such risks, we often supply the complete steam entry and exit armature, including condensate separators, valves, pressure measurements, and more, along with our equipment. We also recommend our commissioning supervision by our experts to ensure the system is operated correctly from the outset. Our units are equipped with sophisticated safety systems to avoid water hammer as much as possible. Ultimately, however, proper process integration is crucial, as factors such as the correct steam inlet pressure and proper condensate removal significantly influence operation. In summary, correct process integration in industrial applications is often much more complex than in HVAC systems, making the combination of theoretical and practical expertise especially important.

5. Application-Specific Solutions for Various Industries

Our units are specifically designed for industrial process applications. A prime example is spray drying, a process where liquids are converted into powder form, and the separation of water content is crucial. In this process, the pre-conditioned liquid must be atomized and dried by the precisely conditioned production air provided by Anytherm units, transforming the liquid into powder. This technique is used in various sectors of the process industry, such as the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries (e.g., for milk powder, protein powder, baby food, flavorings, pharmaceuticals), as well as in the emerging battery cell production for electric vehicles.

Our solutions meet all necessary requirements, such as achieving specific process air conditions (e.g., humidity, temperature, filtration), hygienic designs (fully welded, stainless steel, pickled, and passivated surfaces with 2B finish), spatial flexibility, durability, longevity, cleanability, integration of steam-air heaters, and significant energy recovery potential. These systems offer high annual operating times and economically attractive metrics (payback, net present value, ROI). Anytherm units are deployed worldwide wherever an industrial standard is required that ensures robustness, longevity, heat transfer precision, and efficiency.

Quality and high-grade materials such as stainless steel naturally come at a price. However, Anytherm would not be internationally successful if we were not consistently focused on cost-optimized designs and production-optimized processes. Therefore, we combine Swiss precision and process expertise with our own production capacities and long-established production partners in cost-efficient European locations with a strong tradition in the metal industry. Our international success and projects across the globe – in the USA, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand – confirm our competitive pricing, optimal organizational structure, and supplier and partner setup. While our primary focus remains on the process industry and industrial applications, we can also be competitive in certain complex HVAC applications, especially where higher requirements are involved, despite the generally higher material costs and intensive production methods.

CONCLUSION

Anytherm’s solutions for Process Air Handling / Production Air Conditioning / Industrial Air Management are designed to enhance operational efficiency and stability, reduce energy costs, and ensure compliance with the highest standards of hygiene and safety. With a focus on customization, durability, and energy recovery, our systems are the ideal choice for industries looking to optimize their production processes and achieve sustainable growth.

For more information on how our solutions can be tailored to your specific needs, please contact us today.

Cost-Efficient and Easy to Clean / Low Maintenance Air Handling Units for Industrial Applications