Dust Solutions, Inc.

Recycling plants deal with a lot of dust generating processes and materials, from the initial truck dumps and feed hoppers into the plant, to screens, sorters and separators, shredders and transfer points. Such facilities are often in urban areas and have a staff of operators and maintenance crews that need to be protected from these fugitive dust emissions. It's important to make sure dust is under control. Traditionally, dust extraction systems are used to control these emissions, but they do have limitations in the areas they can cover, and the mechanism for extracting dust laden air limits their effectiveness. There are alternative technologies around that offer very effective dust controls at point of generation and down to respirable levels, and they have applications in many recycling plants including for metal, glass and building materials, as well as for biomass plants and waste to energy power generation. Dry Fog will control dust locally and effectively at a fraction of the cost of an extraction system, not add significant moisture and can cover hoppers and truck dumps that extraction systems are either impractical or not as effective as they are attempting to pull dust laden air from a large area. Dry Fog can either compliment or offer an alternative to extraction for problem dust generation points - and if you are not sure about the technology or it's effectiveness, then why not run a trial - they are easy to set up and have a look at. Contact me or look on our website for our representatives in your area. DSI operate worldwide and have over 1000 installations globally, we guarantee performance and it's our specialty, whatever the application. www.nodust.com

Another successful ROM hopper Dry Fog installation, this is in central Queensland, Australia. It demonstrates Dry Fog's ability to eliminate the dust plume created by a truck dump, down to respirable dust levels - which is why we can guarantee at least a 70% reduction in PM10 levels, though we would expect this to be much higher. Dry Fog is no ordinary spray system, it creates the smallest droplet size of any system available today, and that is critically important in agglomerating with like-sized dust particles and scrubbing them out of the air. No other technology on the market can match our 4 micron average droplet size, and we don't use high pressure to do it, or provide nozzles that wear or block. Dry Fog can be used in a variety of applications throughout the mining, quarrying and associated processes, including dump hoppers like this one, crushers, screens and conveyors, reclaimers, train loaders and unloaders and ship loaders and unloaders. Contact us today to find your local representative, www.nodust.com

With the US Mine Safety & Health Administration's final rule on 18th April to halve the actionable limit on Respirable Chrystalline Silica (RCS) to 0.025 mg/m3 (WTA), there are huge implications for mines and quarries, many of which will now be non-compliant. Here in Australia, Safe Work Australia announced that they will transition on 1st December 2026 from the current Workplace Exposure Standards (WES) for airborne contaminants to a new Workplace Exposure List (WEL) in order 'to align Australia with language used internationally'. Whilst this does not necessarily mean that Australia will review and reduce the exposure limits for RCS, the new WEL has presently 'a reduction in 160 exposure limits, an increase in 11 exposure limits', and 'amendments to 79 exposure limits'. RCS is listed in the WEL published by Safe Work Australia, but does not currently have a value against it. It is important to note that in 2019, the recommendation by Safe Work Australia was to reduce RCS exposure limits to 0.02 mg/m3 (i.e. even less than the new US regs), however due measurability concerns, this was raised to 0.05 mg/m3, with the recommendation that 'more work be done on measurement standards and laboratory techniques in Australia before the WES for RCS is reduced to 0.02 mg/m3' The Webcast from Dust Solution's president Richard Posner, that describes the MSHA ruling and it's implications, as well as solutions particularly applicable to respirable dust, is available here: https://lnkd.in/geB2fZwu The implications are significant. It's important to future proof operations, especially around known dust generators such as crushing plants, stackers, train and ship loading and unloading and stockpiles. We can assist with solutions for these areas. www.nodust.com for information and contact details.

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