There, a handful of fisheries dried North Atlantic cod by sunlight. But that was before a consulting engineer used hvac technology to improve the productivity, shipping schedules, and even the taste of the seafood.
The outdoor drying process takes about one week of sunshine with no rain, and production schedules were at the mercy of the weather. So Lelievre, Lelievre & Lemoignan (LLL) of Sainte-Therese-de-Gaspe decided to use two dehumidifiers from Dectron, Roswell, GA. The units are modifications of the company’s DA series. They supply dry air to racks of fresh cod in dual custom-fabricated sheet metal drying tunnels in LLL’s 100,000-sq-ft headquarters.