How to select desiccant silica gel
Proper selection of the right desiccant silica gel can be inexpensive insurance for protecting your packaged product. Product quality can be improved, resulting in reduced or eliminated customer rejections. When dealing with moisture problems in packaging, a wide array of variables can make it difficult or confusing to develop solutions.
These variables can be classified into two main groups:
1) those pertaining to the product, its package, and the environment;
2) the physical and chemical properties of commercially available desiccants. Formal testing can become quite costly in time and money, and the purpose of this entry is to provide basic information about currently available desiccants and their properties.
We hope it will help you to make better informed selections. What size desiccant do we need? How does the environment factor in? Is desiccant packaging an issue?
Desiccant Silica Gel for Food
Everyone has to eat. Eating is not usually a problem for most people, but there might come a time where a store of grains and other foodstuffs will prove a priceless commodity to you and your family. Whether a disaster comes in the form of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, or revolution, existing infrastructures are going to collapse at least temporarily. Most families have preparedness kits in the event of the natural crises most prevalent in their areas, including flashlights and water, and why not food as well? Many do, and many more should. The staples of food most suited to long-term storage are dried ones, and dehydrated meats, fruits and vegetables. Not to mention seeds for the planting or replanting of crops. As you can guess, this entire store will be worthless if it gets wet, mold in particular loves damp, dark conditions. You can’t really avoid the darkness in your storage place, but desiccant SILICA GEL can stave off the damp and make sure your ace in the hole doesn’t turn up a deuce when it counts.
Using indicating silica gel desiccant to protect tea, moistureproof effect is better.
The storage method is similar with the quick lime, charcoal and only this effect is better. Generally, storage after six months, the tea still maintain its freshness. Indicating silica gel is blue before absorbing moisture , when desiccant particles from blue to translucent pink means the water absorption has reached saturation, so we have to take it out, on the fire baking or in the sun ,until restore the original color , which may continue to put in use.