Environmental Rooms

• Coating a Wide Range of Products
• KMI Systems' Patents
• Environmental Room and Powder Conditioning
• Fluidized Bed Systems

Coating a Wide Range of Products

Powder spray booths are designed for a wide range of products including:

1. Complex shaped parts
2. Very long parts
3. Parts requiring low film builds
4. Parts requiring high film builds
5. Very large or small parts

KMI typically installs powder booths in an environmental "clean room" to ensure trouble free powder application and dirt free parts. "Clean rooms" are equipped with automatic climate control systems designed to maintain an environment at optimal coating conditions. KMI’s standard powder room makes use of two patents which makes our rooms vastly superior to competitor’s rooms.

KMI Systems' Patents

PATENTED Isolation Tunnels: (Pat No. US #5,849,053)

Tri-Flow Energy Recovery Isolation Tunnels reduce the air conditioning load.  The powder coating industry experts recommend an air flow of no less than 120 feet per minute through the conveyor openings to keep in-plant contamination out of the environmental room.  KMI uses a patented method of saving this wasted air conditioning by recirculating it back to the air conditioning system via the Tri-Flow Energy Recovery Isolation Tunnels placed at the conveyor entrance and exit openings.

PATENTED Plenum Design:  (Pat No. US #5,885,154)

Another unique feature of the KMI environmental room is the implementation of the “Kleen-Wall Plenum” system.  The environmental system is directly feed to the overhead plenum (eliminating costly duct and diffuser system) where the conditioned air is evenly distributed throughout the entire room.

Environmental Room and Powder Conditioning

The powder room houses powder spray booths. The powder room is where the ambient air in the room is maintained at constant and uniform conditions (temperature and humidity) throughout the day and throughout all areas of room all year long in order to provide ideal powder paint or enamel application conditions. It is constructed from modular insulated panels and all internal surfaces are reasonably smooth for easy cleaning.

Powder Conditioning

Powder conditioning provides a controlled atmosphere for better powder application and superior cured finish appearance. The air conditioning system has to maintain temperature between 65° to 75°F ±2°F and humidity between 45% to 65% ±3% RH under full load.

Environmental Room

The environmental room is maintained under positive pressure to prevent airborne contaminants entering through the part openings. Design air velocity through the openings and door is maintained at about 125 fpm. The supply registers are uniformly distributed through the room and are sized for air velocity not to exceed 150 fpm. The return air is filtered to prevent powder as small as 2 microns from entering the exchanger coil.

Material handling equipment for powder systems can be monorail, power & free, spindle or cross-bar conveyors to allow for a multilevel compact space saving design.

Fluidized Bed Systems

Fluidized bed systems can be designed to apply PVC or nylon to fabricated wire products. These systems incorporate the latest equipment innovations to apply powders uniformly at minimal operating cost while offering long equipment life.