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China faces a challenge in the sustainable development of the coal industry due to pneumoconiosis problems. Dust control technologies are crucial for safe production and miners’ health, ensuring the industry’s longevity. This article revi...

Accurate identification of dust emission sources is crucial for simulating dust aerosols in atmospheric chemical models. Therefore, a dynamically updated dust source function (DSF) was developed within the dust emission scheme of the Weather Research...

Dust aerosols can influence climate change, the ecological environment, human health, etc. and are one of the most important factors causing global change. The specific contributions of dust events, gusts, and dust devils to dust emission remain uncl...

Although mineral dust plays a key role in the Earth’s climate system and in climate and weather prediction, models still have difficulties in predicting the amount and distribution of mineral dust in the atmosphere. One reason for this is the limited...

Coal dust endangers the health and safety of workers in underground coal mines. Therefore, developing coal dust suppressants with dust prevention and explosion-proof properties is critical. The influence of molasses on the explosion and decomposition...

Fugitive dust particles are important contributors to urban ambient particulate matter (PM), while their emissions have been ignored or greatly underestimated in previous studies, leading to the underestimation of PM concentrations and health impacts...

Spray dust removal is currently the primary method of dust control technology, while it exhibits low efficacy in dust removal capability. A Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) experimental system was constructed to study the influence of dust supp...

To address the challenge of dust control during dry drilling of underground coal seams, a novel dust-collecting device for micron-size dust was designed and tested. To determine the optimal structural parameters of the dust collector, numerical simul...

The presence of dust in the intracluster medium (ICM) has been a long-standing problem that is still awaiting elucidation. Direct observational diagnostics are rather challenging (though not impossible) either because of a sparse distribution of dust...

Dust emission is an important corollary of the soil degradation process in arid and semi-arid areas worldwide. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the main terrestrial pool in the carbon cycle, and dust emission redistributes SOC within terrestrial ecosyste...

Mine dust is one of the main disasters that threatens the safety of coal mine production, deteriorates the underground working environment and induces various occupational diseases. Based on the harm of mine dust identified and the current domestic a...

A special topography and ultra-high atmospheric boundary layer conditions in the Tarim Basin (TB) lead to the unique spatial–temporal distribution characteristics of dust aerosols. A typical dust storm with persistent floating dust over the TB...

Sulfide ore dust is at risk of explosion. To analyze the concentration distribution of sulfide ore dust in the ore loading, transporting, and unloading operations, the migration and dispersion processes of sulfide ore dust were simulated by using FLU...

Dust accumulation on Photovoltaic (PV) panels represents a major challenge for the operation of panels. There are several passive dust mitigation techniques, such as using a dust shield whose performance has been enhanced by integrating it with an ai...

In order to study the influence of various parts of the structure of a wet dust removal fan for mining (including the number of driving impeller blades, the airfoil of the driving impeller blades, the number of driven impeller blades, the rear guide...

The Gobi Desert is a major source of Asian dust events, and the resulting health hazards have increased significantly in recent years. We reported that a variety of live bacteria were distributed in the Gobi Desert in relation to land use. Bacterial...

Industrial dust control is shifting from single-device removal toward integrated risk diagnosis, mechanism-guided collector selection, and system-level optimization under complex operating conditions. However, harsh field environments, variable dust...

Aiming at the problems of the influencing factors of coal mine dust wettability not being clear and the identification process being complicated, this study proposed a coal mine dust wettability identification method based on a back propagation (BP)...

Asian dust events are generated by deep convection from strong low pressure systems that form over mineral dust source regions. This study compares the mineral dust optical properties of two strong Asian dust events from the winter (December 2007) an...

The present study focuses on the experimental evaluation of the minimum ignition temperature (MIT) of dispersed dust in a Godbert–Greenwald furnace. The aim of this article is to assess the influence of dust container design on MIT determinatio...

Mineral dust plays a pivotal role in the Earth’s system. Dust modulates the global energy budget directly via its interactions with radiation and indirectly via its influence on cloud and precipitation formation processes. Dust is a micro-nutri...

Global dust events have become more frequent due to climate change and increased human activity, significantly impacting air quality and human health. Previous studies have mainly focused on determining atmospheric dust pollution levels through atmos...

This paper first addresses the question: what is a dust explosion? Afterwards, some specific issues are briefly reviewed: materials that can give dust explosions, factors influencing ignitability and explosibility of dust clouds, the combustion of du...

Spray dust reduction is one of the most economical and effective technologies for controlling coal dust in coal mining faces. We aimed to reproduce a spray dust reduction process in a simulation and investigate the mechanism by which the spray angle...

Dry dust collectors are a typical dust and gas coexistence space. Dust explosion risk assessments should be performed for effective prevention and control of dust explosion accidents. In this paper, a dust explosion risk assessment index system for d...

Coal and oil shale are often mined and utilized together, and mixed dust is easily formed in these processes. In order to ensure safe production in these processes, the explosion characteristics of mixed dust were studied. Using a Godbert-Greenwold (...

Despite the small mass fraction typically observed for the interstellar medium, dust plays a significant role as a key component of galaxies, affecting a wide range of properties. This review focuses specifically on how dust grains influence interste...

The emission, transport, and deposition of dust are frequently the focus of dust aerosol studies. However, owing to limited observation data, few studies have examined the relationships between the key parameters of dust transport, especially in typi...

Dust plays a very important role in the Earth’s climate system by its direct and indirect effects. Deserts in northwestern China contribute a large amount of dust particles, both inland and outside, while the vertical distribution and transport...

The long-pressure and short-exhaust ventilation method can effectively reduce dust concentration in mine roadways (tunnels) and alleviate hazards to workers. However, it is usually difficult to resolve the problem of high dust concentrations at the d...

Wet-spray dust reduction technology is one of the many dust control measures used to address the underground coal dust hazard. The wettability and agglomeration effects between coal dust and dust suppression solution directly affect the dust reductio...

Fibrous-type dust filters are used in flooded-bed dust scrubbers to capture dust from underground room and pillar mining atmospheres. They have 10–30 layers of finely woven strands that trap particles through the interception and impaction process. A...

The heading face is one of the zones most severely affected by dust pollution in underground coal mines, and dust control becomes even more challenging during roadway excavation with continuous miners. To improve dust mitigation in environments chara...

Coal dust pollution poses a serious public health threat. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of creating a coal dust suppressant using molasses, a byproduct of the sugar industry. We studied the effects of a molasses solution of varying...

Fine aluminum dust pollution in the polishing process was detected during a field survey. To obtain a fundamental understanding of the airflow patterns and the fine dust dispersion characteristics during a polishing process, computational fluid dynam...

To further promote dust control efforts in Chinese open-pit coal mines, this study focuses on the research of coal dust and rock dust produced by different explosions in the Haerwusu open-pit coal mine in China. By investigating the relationship betw...

The special volume entitled ‘‘Dust Events in the Environment’’ updates the state of the art and perspectives focused on the interactions between natural and urban events of dust with the environment, keeping an eye to the asso...

The aim of this work is to construct an algorithm for visualizing a polydisperse phase of solid particles (dust) in an inhomogeneous flow of a two-phase gas-dust mixture that would allow us to see, within one plot, the degree of polydispersity of the...

Dust generated during coal mining and transportation poses serious threats to miners’ health, operational safety, and the surrounding environment. However, comprehensive review studies on dust suppression in coal mines remain limited, particula...

The necessity of two-stage (multi-cyclone-baffle) inlet air filters used for motor vehicle engines operating under dusty conditions was demonstrated. The advantages of a set of several dozen cyclones (multi-cyclone) used for filtering inlet air in th...

The United States has witnessed a concerning surge in the incidence of diseases like Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CWP), despite numerous efforts aimed at prevention. This study delves into the realm of respiratory health by investigating the d...

Due to the advantages of a short cycle, low investment and low energy consumption per ton of steel, short-process electric furnace steelmaking is about to welcome a golden period of rapid development in China. During the operation of the electric fur...

As an important link in open-pit mining production, the crushing station produces a large amount of dust during the production process. Dust has the characteristics of a wide spread area, great harm, and difficult governance. Therefore, dust control...

Ultrafine coal dust is difficult to capture with water because its small size promotes suspension while hydrophobic surface domains hinder droplet spreading. Due to its unique surface properties and chemical environment, the effectiveness of conventi...

Mineral dust is one of the largest natural constituents of coarse particulate matter (PM₁₀). Most of these dust emissions originate from northern Africa, and several hundred tera-grams of dust are emitted annually from this region. Previous evidence...

This study develops and validates the Saharan Dust Flux and Transport Index (SDFTI) using a 22-year dataset (2003–2024) of dust-related and dynamical variables across the Mediterranean. The index integrates six components (surface-particulate m...

In this paper, a nano-composite dust suppressant has been proposed to make up for the deficiency in wettability and moisturizing performance of a nanofluid dust suppressant. The nanometer material Al₂O₃, super absorbent polymer, carboxyl methyl starc...

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events produce anomalous oceanographic and atmospheric conditions in regions far from the equatorial central-eastern Pacific, which modulate the atmospheric and surface processes that influence the dust emis...

A physically based framework is developed to predict horizontal visibility during dust events by linking surface wind erosion, dust emission, near-surface dust concentration, and visibility. An analytical concentration–visibility relationship i...

The writing scene in East Africa has witnessed a rise in the emergence of contemporary literature. One example is Dust, a 2014 novel by the Kenyan Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who, in 2003, was awarded the Caine prize for African writing. The novel Dust ha...