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...
Generally, an effective ventilation system is essential to reduce coal dust disaster. However, with the implementation of carbon tax and increase of energy and operating costs, it is urgent to design a cost-effective ventilation and dust control syst...
High rate of dust generation and serious dust diffusion in dry directional drilling in soft and broken coal seams (SBCS) have long been critical problems in the mining process. To solve these problems, in this study, a dust hood was designed and appl...
The fugitive dust generated by agricultural harvesting machinery not only causes harm to production safety, but also affects the living environment of people in agricultural areas. This is also one of the hot issues that have emerged in the green dev...
Pneumoconiosis has become one of the biggest threats to the occupational health and life safety of mining workers in China. The number of pneumoconiosis cases has continued to rise in recent years. The main task of occupational health development is...
Dust pollution is a key issue that contractors ought to address in the sphere of sustainable construction. Governments on behalf of the public assume part of the responsibilities for minimizing dust emissions on construction sites. However, the measu...
In recent years, the awareness of the seriousness of the damage caused by fugitive dust and the need to manage it have increased. In particular, construction sites comprise 84% of business places that have reported fugitive dust generation, and they...
17 July 2020
The adverse effects associated with exposure to flour dust have been known since the 1700s. The aim of the study was to assess the occupational exposure to flour dust in Italian facilities, identify the activities characterized by the highest exposur...
This paper presents an approach to dust and noise environmental impact assessment and control in Serbian mine planning theory and practice. Mine planning defines the model of mining operations, production and processing rates, and ore excavation and...
The sand/dust environment is an important cause of aircraft failure. A sand/dust environment simulation experiment must be devised to meet the standard technical requirements. Therefore, this article designs the control system for a sand/dust environ...
To reduce dust generated from drilling processes, a reverse circulation drilling method based on a supersonic nozzle is proposed. The suction performance is evaluated by the entrainment ratio. A series of preliminary laboratory experiments based on o...
California is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of almonds. Currently, the sweeping of almonds during the harvest creates a significant amount of dust, causing air pollution in the neighboring urban areas. A low-dust sweeping system was...
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...
In a regenerative air sweeper, airflow and dust particles entering the system are filtered and recirculated within the system. The uncirculated portion of the exhaust air in the system spreads to the ambient air, and PM2.5 dust in the air can poison...
Surfaces of unpaved roads are subjected to dust PM10 (particulate matter < 10 µm) emission by wind process regardless of vehicles (wheels) transport. However, there is little quantitative information on wind-induced dust emission from unpave...
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...
Construction sites constitute major sources of pollutants creating negative impacts on the environment. Sustainable construction aims at mitigating these negative externalities while promoting economic and social outcomes. Dust pollution in construct...
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...
This Special Issue on soil erosion invites novel and original articles based on physical and chemical theories, field and laboratory experimental, soil analyses, and/or statistical and mathematical modeling that advance our knowledge on dust control...
This study explored the enzymatic formation of gel-like polymeric matrices through carbonate precipitation for dust suppression in Yellow River silt. The hydrogel-modified EICP method effectively enhanced the compressive strength and resistance to wi...
This study developed a reinforcement learning-based energy management agent that controls the fine dust concentration by controlling facilities such as blowers and air conditioners to efficiently manage the fine dust concentration in the station. To...
This is the second volume of the Special Issue on Soil Erosion: Dust Control and Sand Stabilization, following the first volume published in 2020 [...]
Intense cutting-induced dust production in fully mechanized mining faces (FMMFs) with large mining heights produces a high amount of dust that is difficult to capture and severely affects the working environment, threatening the health of occupationa...
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...
Dust control is one of the most difficult challenges for underground coal mine operators, especially longwall mine operators. The most widely used dust control technologies at a longwall section are ventilation air and water sprays, whereas a continu...
The Colorado potato beetle (CPB) is an economically important pest on potatoes, which can cause significant damage if not controlled. Our laboratory trial was conducted to study the efficacy of five types of inert dusts (diatomaceous earth, quartz sa...
Airborne dust is an important contaminant affecting the health and the environment, and a crucial concern in many workplaces such as animal facilities and potash mines. One of the techniques used for dust control is electrostatic particle ionization...
Dust pollution is a major problem formed caused by opencast coal mining, and its prevention is a key prerequisite for the realization of green and climate-friendly mining in open-pit coal mines. In this paper, we conducted the real-time monitoring of...
For the dust control of barren mine soils, protein and polysaccharide biopolymers have recently shown potential as environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional dust suppressants (e.g., salt brines or petroleum-based products). However, labor...
In this study, the effectiveness of biodegradable food processing by-products (chicory vinasses, corn steep liquor, decantation syrup, and palatinose molasses) as dust suppressants on mine soils has been precisely quantified using controlled laborato...
Blast furnace tuyeres are the primary dust emission source in ironmaking facilities (accounting for over 30% of total pollutants). High-temperature dust plumes with intense thermal energy are prone to dispersion, while China’s steel industry ul...
Recent laboratory studies have shown that biopolymers have the potential to act as dust suppressants on barren mine soils. However, there is a lack of field trials investigating the effectiveness of biopolymer treatments under real field conditions o...
The dust generated during tunnel construction poses serious health risks to workers, as it not only causes respiratory obstruction but also leads to pneumoconiosis and respiratory failure after prolonged exposure. However, most existing studies focus...
The application of polymer colloids is a promising approach for bauxite residue dust pollution control. However, due to the existence of synergistic aging, the efficiency of colloid dynamic viscosity to predict the dust control performance of bauxite...
Polysaccharide biopolymers have been shown to be alternatives to established dust suppressants. This study investigates the potential of 14 polysaccharides and proteins from diverse botanical (corn, pea, wheat, cellulose, potato, and fava bean) and a...
As the world’s largest open-pit coal producer, China faces severe dust pollution in mining operations. Cabins of mining equipment (electric shovels, haul trucks, drills) exhibit unique micro-environmental contamination due to dual-source pollut...
Soil erosion has environmental and socioeconomic significances. Loess soils cover about 10% of the global land area. Most of these soils are subjected to increased land uses such as unpaved roads, which increase soil destruction and dust emission to...
Despite the sanitary importance of the European house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart, 1897), the pheromonal communication in this species has not been sufficiently studied. Headspace analysis using solid phase micro extraction (...
Recent advances in electronics components such as microcontrollers and sensors, plus widespread availability of 3D printing, make it possible to construct all-in-one datalogger and control systems in purpose-built enclosures. In addition, microcontro...
The air curtain dust control device (ACDCD) utilizes the air curtain formed by high-speed gas ejected from an injection cavity to separate the driver working area from the roadheader pollution area, so as to achieve the purpose of dust control. The e...
Ixodids (hard ticks), ectoparasitic arthropods that vector the causal agents of many serious diseases of humans, domestic animals, and wildlife, have become increasingly difficult to control because of the development of resistance against commonly a...
Environmental samples are often used to classify the paratuberculosis status of cattle herds. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), predominantly through oral ingestion during infancy. In this explorative study,...
A dust generator was developed to disperse and maintain a desired concentration of airborne dust in a controlled environment chamber to study poultry physiological response to sustained elevated levels of particulate matter. The goal was to maintain...
Coal is the most abundant and widely distributed fossil energy source on the planet [...]
Coal seam pre-drainage technology is widely used to prevent and control gas in China’s high-gas coal seams, and upward drilling is a safe and reliable technology. Using the Luling Coal Mine as the study location, according to the actual situati...
In a context of energy abundance for industrial applications, industrial systems are exploited with minimal attention to their actual energy consumption requirements to meet the loads imposed on them. As a result, most of them are used at maximal cap...
This study introduces a neural network-based approach to predict dust emissions, specifically PM2.5 particles, during almond harvesting in California. Using a feedforward neural network (FNN), this research predicted PM2.5 emissions by analyzing key...
24 January 2012
A systematic approach was developed to review, revise and adapt existing exposure control guidance used in developed countries for use in developing countries. One-page employee and multiple-page supervisor guidance sheets were adapted from existing...
In engineering pulse-jet dust collector applications, the filtration area and injection pressure are chosen mostly based on experience. The peak pressure is tested under different injection pressures and filtration areas controlled by an electromagne...
The experimental and numerical studies were performed to understand the atomization mechanism of pressure spray of a swirl nozzle. The design and performance parameters such as spray cone angle, velocity of particles, spray pressure, and Sauter Mean...
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