Drying Science- Part 2

7/23/2021 (Permalink)

SERVPRO of Anderson’s production crew uses airflow effectively to dry out affected materials.  Air movement is crucial for evaporating moisture in materials. SERVPRO green air movers do this in a couple of ways. First, as dehumidifiers produce the warm dry air, the air movers create movement that then circulates the warm dry air throughout the affected space. This helps to lower the humidity in the area. Circulation is the key! It is also important that our crew effectively uses temperature to help dry out any affected materials. Temperature creates energy, which means that a high temperature creates a higher energy. When a water molecule has more energy, the faster it moves. The faster that the molecules move, the quicker that their bonds are broken causing the state to change from liquid to vapor. Our production team uses heat to speed the movement of the moisture along, increasing the rate of evaporation.

Increasing the Material’s Temperature + Lowering the Vapor Pressure of the Air above the Material = You have created the conditions for evaporation