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Table 7. Design Indoor Conditions For Various Places, Products and Processes (cont)
Product and/or Process
Libraries and Museums
Normal Reading and Viewing Rooms
Rare Manuscript Storage Vaults
Art Storage Areas
Matches
Manufacture
Drying
Storage
Meat and Fish
Beef (Fresh)
Beef, Fish, Lamb and Pork (Frozen)
Fish (Fresh)
Lamb and Pork (Fresh)
Mushrooms
Sweating-out Period
Spawn Added
Growing Period
Storage
Oil Paints: Paint Spraying
Pharmaceuticals
Manufactured Powder Storage and Packaging Area
Milling Room, Table Compressing and Coating
Effervescent Tablets and Powders
Hypodermic Tablets
Colloids
Cough Drops
Glandular Products
Ampoule Manufacturing
Gelatin Capsules and Storage
Microanalysis
Biological Manufacturing and Liver Extracts
Serums
Animal Rooms
Plastics
Manufacturing Areas Thermosetting
Molding Compounds
Cellophane Wrapping
Plywood
Hot Pressing (Resin)
Cold Pressing
Printing
Platemaking
Lithographic Press Room
Letterpress and Web Offset Press Rooms and Paper Storage
Paper Storage (Multicolor Sheet Feed Lithography)
Rubber Dipped Goods
Cementing
Dipping Surgical Articles
Storage Prior to Manufacture
Laboratory (ASTM Standard)
Tea Packaging
Temperature
°F °C
70 – 74 21 – 23
70 – 72 21 – 22
65 – 72 17 – 22
72 – 74 22 – 23
70 – 75 21 – 24
60 – 62 16 – 17
32 –34 0 – 1
-10 – 0 -23 – -18
33 – 35 1 – 3
32 – 34 0 – 1
120 – 140 49 – 60
60 – 75 16 – 24
48 – 60 9 – 16
32 – 35 0 – 2
60 – 90 16 – 32
75 24
75 24
75 24
75 24
70 21
80 27
76 24
75 24
76 24
76 24
76 24
76 24
75 – 80 24 – 27
80 27
75 – 80 24 – 27
90 32
90 32
75 – 80 24 – 27
76 – 80 24 – 27
76 – 80 24 – 27
76 – 80 24 – 27
80 27
75 – 90 24 – 32
60 – 75 16 – 24
73.4 23
65 18
Relative
Humidity
%RH
40 – 50
45
50
50
60
50
88 – 92
90 – 95
90 – 95
85 – 90
–
Nearly Sat.
80
80 – 85
80
35
35
20
30
30 – 50
40
5 – 10
35 – 50
35
50
35
50
50
35 – 30
45 – 65
60
15 – 25
45 Max
43 – 47
50
5 – 8
Higher than
Press Room
25 – 30
25 – 30
40 – 50
50
65
10-10
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