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Australian Dust Control  designs a range of shaker dust extractors that are energy efficient, environmentally friendly and can be delivered ready to be installed by the customer.

This type of shaker dust extraction system can be delivered to site preassembled and then easily placed on the base framework.

Located in Harvey Bay, timber flooring and cladding supplier Urbanline commissioned Australian Dust Control to supply a shaker dust collector with an 18.5kw fan that they were able to easily install themselves

These types of shaker dust extractors are also suitable for school woodworking rooms and industrial design classrooms. The dust extractors will ensure that students have access to high standards of protection.

All dust and fume extraction systems designed by Australian Dust Control comply with selection criteria and OH&S regulations.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “South African Air Pollution Control Market” to their offering.

Research Overview

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled South African Air Pollution Control Market provides a strategic overview of the total air pollution control market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine the current trends in air pollution control and how market participants can take advantage of opportunities that are expected to arise. The following market sectors are covered in this research: energy and power, chemicals and petrochemicals, steel and metals, pulp and paper and cement and brick manufacturing. Fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators, scrubbing equipment, flue gas desulphurization and dust suppression are some of the technologies examined in the research. Read the rest of this entry »

The design of the latest Cat mining trucks exceeds its predecessors and offers the ultimate in productivity, durability and low cost of operation even in the most challenging mining operations.

97F Cat® Mining Truck
The 797F, with 4,000-horsepower (2983 kW) and rated payload capacities to 363 tonnes, combines the strengths of its predecessors with a new engine, redesigned operator station and custom body systems to deliver even lower costs per tonne – with less environmental impact.

The 797F also offers easier maintenance and enhanced safety provisions. Ground level service points ease access, and 1,000-hour hydraulic filter service intervals reduce required maintenance. Safety enhancements include wider walkways, a rear access ladder and a bumper-mounted, three-way, lock-out tag-out box.

The 20-cylinder, 4,000-gross-horsepower Cat C175-20 ACERT engine has a single engine block and is the heart of the new truck. The engine has accumulated more than a quarter-million hours of field testing in mining trucks and power-generating systems. The C175 displaces 5.3 litres (323 in³) per cylinder – for a total displacement of 106 litres (6,458 in³). The 797F develops 450 horsepower more than its predecessor, the 797B, which used a 24-cylinder Cat 3524B engine displacing 117 litres (7,143 in³).

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BROOKSVILLE – These days, Audrey Mahoney says she has to drive her Lexus sports car on the front grass of a foreclosed house next door to avoid a three-foot wide crevice that formed in the hardened limerock near her home on Eggers Lane in Royal Highlands.

Ed Vanderleelie, her neighbor on adjoining Mackinaw Road, says he’s tried to fill in a deep road rut in front of his mailbox to help out the postal carrier, but it’s no use. The water just washes it all away.

And Margaret and Raymond Favichia, who live across the street from Vanderleelie, had to stop inviting their friends in the Christian Motorcycle Association to visit for fear of someone hitting a good-sized pothole in front of their driveway and ending up in the ditch.

They have cracks and they need dust control 

These neighbors are irate, especially after reading an article they read Sunday in Hernando Today that the county was using $1.27 million in federal stimulus money to resurface the entire 20-mile length of the Suncoast Parkway bicycle and pedestrian trail.

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Due to expected high winds, Clark County Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management (DAQEM) officials are advising residents and operators of local construction sites of the possibility of blowing dust Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon.

It’s the second time this week that officials have issued an alert for dust storms in the area, as rapidly lowering temperatures have been accompanied by strong winds.

At this time, unhealthy levels of dust are not occurring.

As part of the county’s dust-control program, air quality officials are sending notices to construction sites around the county, asking them to take precautions to prevent blowing dust.

Air Quality officials will continue to monitor the situation and will post an alert on the forecast page of the DAQEM website if unhealthy levels of dust actually occur.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2009-5

ORDINANCE PROHIBITING

DUST CONTROL

ON COUNTY ROADS

Section 1: Title of Ordinance. This Ordin-ance shall be known as the “Ordinance Prohibiting Dust Control on County Roads.”

Ok.. now this sounds logical.. If they want to keep to a standard, Fine, have the product approved before application, but to have to pay the government to do your work for you.. Please.. it just keeps getting goofier.  Sorry if this is too dramatic for dust control But Come On.

Section 2. For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and enjoyment of public travel and to protect the public investment in public highways, it is hereby declared to be in the public’s interest to regulate and restrict the application of any type of dust control on a county road by anyone other than the Daviess County Highway Department or contracted with the Daviess County Highway Department.

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A month ago, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords told a Green Valley newspaper that she’s not “anti-mining.” Late last week, she proved it. At a three-hour tour of Freeport McMoran’s Sierrita complex north of Green Valley, at a site where copper has been mined for a century, Giffords was as effusively friendly as she has been critical of the proposed Rosemont Mine in the Santa Rita Mountains across the valley.

She had many reasons, but they boiled down to differences between living with an existing mine in a long-compromised area and bringing a new one into a more pristine site — and to differences in trust between neighbors of Freeport and of Rosemont.

Freeport’s mine — where mining has occurred for a century — employs 1,000 people and sprawls 1.5 by 2 miles in its open pit. A peek inside the 1,500 foot deep pit shows about 25 mine benches, each about 50 feet tall, heading toward the bottom. To the pit’s west lies the rocky Sierrita Mountains.

The mine processes 160,000 to 170,000 tons of ore daily, down in this recessionary area from 220,000 a year ago. Rock is blasted five days a week, three to five times daily. Electric shovels cost $25 million and stand 64 feet high. Each of 18 haul trucks can carry 162 tons for crushing. A mill building stands five stories tall.

Finally, the company’s 3,500 acre tailings impoundment stands as a testimony to past dust complaints from residents but also offers promise for future groundwater cleanups and newer dust control equipment, since the company is proposing to do a massive, very expensive cleanup of tainted groundwater lying underneath and spreading from the tailings.

At one point, Giffords marveled to company officials: “You’ve got quite a piece of land. How did it get like this?”

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Recently SCI was tested on a tank training facility that has hundreds of miles of tank trails. The test were very successful and it looks like they will be taking over the contract for dust control at this location. Details withheld until further contracts are completed at which time a formal press release will be available.

If they only used Top-Seal for their Dust control they would not need to worry about the water restrictions.

Customers of two local water companies, Antelope Run and Indiada, have been placed on mandatory water conservation.

“Indiada lost all well production, so this situation is dire. The wells for that system have literally gone dry,” said Bonnie O’Connor, president of Southwestern Utility Management, Inc., the company that runs the two utilities. “Customers on Indiada’s system had absolutely no water, but we were able to use an interconnection between Antelope Run and Indiada to provide water for those customers.”

Both water systems are now being served through Antelope Run’s water source.

“That little bit of rain we received over the weekend helped Indiada’s water supply, but it’s a minimal, short-term boost,” O’Connor said.

While sharing water with Indiada has put a strain on Antelope Run’s water system, O’Connor says Antelope Run is pumping enough gallons per minute to sustain regular household usage.

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Stark County Commission members’ Tuesday vote gives GTL Energy USA Ltd. the go ahead to operate a coal beneficiation plant near South Heart during their Tuesday meeting.

The commissioners decided during their meeting to change the land from agricultural to industrial.

Mary Hodell, who spoke on behalf of Neighbors United at the meeting, is against the zoning change.

“Why does it have to be right in the middle of agricultural land?” Hodell asked.

Chairman Duane “Bucky” Wolf said accessibility to the railroad and Interstate 94 makes it a good place.

Hodell also wants the commission to set strict rules for the trucks going to and from the plant, saying she’s already seen trucks breaking from suggested routes.

“If you’ve got road agreements, what’s the consequence when they don’t follow this? And they haven’t been,” Hodell said.

Commissioner Russ Hoff said the road agreement between GTL and Stark County covers “anywhere from dust control to different roads that they’re taking, signage on roads, weight permits — it pretty much covers it all.”

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