Twenty years in industrial dehumidification. It is why the AI advice is grounded.
Harvey Consultancy is an applied AI practice. The credibility behind it comes from two decades engineering desiccant and hybrid dehumidification systems in regulated, mission-critical plants. For dehumidification engineering and systems today, that work runs through Desiccant Air Solutions.
Dehumidification engineering runs through Desiccant Air Solutions.
For system selection, performance evaluation, RFP support, commissioning, or field troubleshooting on desiccant and hybrid desiccant-refrigeration systems, the engineering company is Desiccant Air Solutions, which I co-founded. Harvey Consultancy itself is the applied AI practice.
Desiccant Air Solutions
Advanced hybrid desiccant and refrigeration systems for industrial manufacturers, food, pharma, and cold storage. The engineering, the systems, and the moisture work live here.
Built for mission-critical environments.
Two decades engineering humidity and air control across food processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, hospital operating rooms, lithium-battery dry rooms, and cold storage.
Where the experience runs deep.
These are the environments behind the 20+ years -- where moisture is not an HVAC nuisance but a variable that directly affects product quality, safety, or regulatory compliance. It is the domain fluency I bring to an AI engagement inside a regulated plant.
Food Processing
Bakeries, confectionery, meat and cheese operations, cold storage docks. Condensation on product surfaces causes spoilage, mold, and packaging failure. Cold storage dock dehumidification is one of the highest-ROI applications in food manufacturing.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Solid-dose operations, tablet coating, capsule filling, API handling. FDA/cGMP requires documented environmental control. The humidity-sensitive steps are well-understood; the specification and verification of control are where technical rigor matters most.
Hospital Operating Rooms
Dehumidification for surgical suites and procedure rooms where humidity control intersects with infection control, materials requirements, and ASHRAE 170 compliance. Precise, reliable, and verifiable performance is the standard.
Lithium-Battery Dry Rooms
Electrode coating, formation, and electrolyte-filling environments where dew point targets reach -40°F and below. Lithium and electrolyte are hygroscopic; moisture causes dendrite formation, cell degradation, and fire risk. Among the most technically demanding desiccant applications in current industrial practice.
Cold Storage & Below-Freezing Dew Point
Freezer entries, blast freeze tunnels, cold chain logistics where the dew point requirement extends below the capability of conventional refrigeration. Desiccant is the right tool here, not an upgrade to a conventional system.
Industrial Manufacturing
Powder handling, chemical manufacturing, precision assembly, and other processes where ambient humidity affects yield, equipment, or product quality. Load calculations that account for infiltration, personnel, and process moisture release -- not rules of thumb.
A system that cannot prove its answer is not a working system. I learned that standard over twenty years in dehumidification, and I brought it to AI.
The engineering background.
Mike Harvey holds a BSEE from the University at Buffalo and an MBA, with PMP certification. He spent 20+ years in industrial desiccant dehumidification -- starting in field troubleshooting, moving through design and applications engineering, sales, and operations leadership before founding Harvey Consultancy LLC in 2022.
He has engineered desiccant and hybrid desiccant-refrigeration systems for some of the largest food and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world, with installations across North America, Europe, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. He is also co-founder of Desiccant Air Solutions, the applied desiccant engineering company that handles dehumidification work today.
Harvey Consultancy is the applied AI practice that background now powers.
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The consulting practice is applied AI. Dehumidification engineering and systems are Desiccant Air Solutions.