Mining and mineral processing operations generate dust when ore is loaded, dumped, crushed, screened or transferred by conveyor belt. Road traffic and wind blowing on stockpiles, tailings dams, railcars or hauling trucks can also create dust.

The dust from handling of massive quantities of material every day can become a serious health and safety hazard to both the mining personnel and surround community. 

Florrea MiniDust^® dust suppressants are proven to deliver superior dust-control performance, which increases productivity and profitability for mining operators. Used in dust abatement systems, Florrea MiniDust^® dust suppressants also solve health, safety and environmental challenges.

Benefits include:
  ●Improved environmental compliance
    ●Enhanced workplace safety
    ●Reduced risk of fire and explosion
    ●Lower equipment maintenance and cleaning costs
    ●Reduced water consumption
    ●Improved community relations

Florrea MiniDust^® Dust Control Programs
Minimize dust and reduce health and safety hazards

Florrea MiniDust^® Dust control treatment programs are designed to address many different types of dusting problems. In many handling operations, dust particles are created and/or released at transfer points or other downstream process areas.

Florrea’s MiniDust^® dust control programs offers a variety of binding, wetting, foaming and crusting agents that address fugitive dust and stabilize material stockpiles, landfills or tailings surfaces, reducing customers’ overall operating and maintenance costs.

    ●MiniDust^® dust control programs prevent cost-effective fugitive material loss from stockpiles and during transportation (conveyor belts, trucks, ships, and railcars)
    ●MiniDust^® handling aids mitigate the accumulation of material on surfaces of handling systems such as conveyor belts, ships, railcars, or trucks, reducing losses and maintenance.
    ●MiniDust^® road dust programs minimize health & safety risks while limiting the amount of water used for dust abatement
    ●MiniDust^® coal antioxidants reduce spontaneous oxidation occurring in coal stockpiles to prevent losses and minimize health & safety risk

Florrea offers a comprehensive line of dust suppression additives including:

    ●Surface-wetting agents that lower fine-particle dispersion
    ●Tackifiers that bind particles together
    ●Humectants that agglomerate particles
    ●Encrusting agents that create a solid layer over porous surfaces
    ●foam dust control
    ●surface tension reducers
    ● binders

Wetting Agents

Florrea MiniDust^® Dust Control Wetting Agents

Fugitive dust is typical generated during unloading, stack out, reclaim and crushing operations. These dust emissions can be a safety hazard and environmental nuisance and can increase maintenance of material handling equipment.

Florrea MiniDust^® wetting agents are highly-concentrated blends formulated to enhance the dust suppression capabilities of water.

Florrea MiniDust^® is designed to increase the ability of water to adhere to and spread over dust particles.
This increases the bulk density of dust particles and leads to agglomeration, which prevent particles from becoming airborne. Florrea MiniDust^® dust control solutions are particularly effective in reducing respirable dust.

Florrea MiniDust^® Wetting Agents Features & Benefits
    ●Provides control of fugitive emissions while minimizing moisture addition
    ●Enhances wetting of dust particles
    ●Reduces maintenance and housekeeping costs
    ●Improve working conditions 

Foaming Agents
Florrea MiniDust^® Dust Control Foaming Agents

Florrea MiniDust^® foaming agents offer the best available technology by effectively knocking down dust particles without adding large amounts of water to the process. MiniDust^® foaming agents control fugitive dust and reduce costs associated with moisture addition to the fuel or process material.

Florrea MiniDust^® Foaming Agents Features & Benefits 
    ●Provides control of fugitive emissions while minimizing moisture addition
    ●Maintains control of emission through multiple transfer points and active storage piles
    ●Produces high expansion foam with most plant waters
    ●Reduces maintenance and housekeeping costs
    ●Improves worker health by reducing respirable dust emissions
    ●Environmentally safe

Binding Agents

Florrea MiniDust^® Dust Control Binding Agents

Florrea MiniDust^® binding agents are patented dust control technologies designed to reduce fugitive dust emissions and inhibit the surface weathering of coal and other mineral ores.

Flotrea MiniDust^® binding agents provide maximum performance when applied to specific bulk materials. Florrea MiniDust^® binding agents are effective on a wide variety of materials including coal, coke, mineral ores and unpaved roads 

MiniDust^® Binding Agents Features & Benefits
    ●Reduces dusting during loading, unloading, stack-out and reclamation
    ●Reduces in-transit material losses from rail cars or haul trucks– 
    ●Retards the oxidation and weathering of low rank coals, such as Powder River Basin (PRB) coals
    ●Reduces BTU losses during storage at coal yards and terminals 

Crusting Agents

Florrea MiniDust^® Dust Control Crusting Agents

MiniDust^® crusting agents are specially formulated to control dust from long term and short-term storage piles by proving a durable, semi-permanent, rain-resistant surface seal, reducing wind erosion and protecting against atmospheric oxidation.

MiniDust^® crusting agents control fugitive dust emissions from a wide variety of solid materials including coal, limestone, calcined coke, taconite, clinker, ores, fly ash, mine tailings and waste materials stored in open piles exposed to the weather

MiniDust^® Crusting Agents Features & Benefits
    ●Provides long-term control of fugitive dust emissions 
    ●Reduces inventory losses and pile run off
    ●Improves working conditions, community relations, and protects the environment 

Material Handling Solutions

In addition to dust suppression, the Florrea MiniDust^® products provide solutions designed to address wet or frozen material flow problems.
Additionally, a selection of Florrea MiniDust^® binders are used to control dust on unpaved roads.

Flows Aids

Flow Aids are used to reduce or eliminate flow interruptions that result from wet coal or minerals adhering to equipment surfaces. Flow aids relieve production bottlenecks and reduce cleanup costs.

Freeze Conditioning
Freeze Conditioning agents help material flow in extreme cold conditions.

Road Dust Control
Specific wetting agents and binders are used for road dust control.
Environmentally friendly Florrea MiniDust^® products are applied to control fugitive dust to maximize visibility and safety on roadways.

DRIVING INNOVATION – GLOBAL EXPERTISE MADE LOCAL

Florrea places great emphasis on research, development, and innovation. In our commitment to addressing your challenges, we have carefully assembled dedicated teams of chemists and engineers to drive our customer-focused technical research centers around the globe. From China to Indonesia, Peru to Russia, and everywhere in between, Florrea offers a globally-connected team of experts that are local to your plant and keenly aware of the regionalized challenges that can impact your operations.

Our researchers can provide pre-trial laboratory product screenings of products and can leverage test data to create customized solutions for encrusting, permeability and wind/water erosion.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Dust control and suppressants for Maximizing the Impact of Water to Knock Down Dust

Every job site faces safety and compliance challenges. Florrea’s industrial dust control solutions include patented chemical compounds that are more effective than traditional blends. An array of agents, binders, foams, and antioxidants can be used to help you handle, transport, and store your natural resources.

Dust control is one of the most pervasive issues at any mine site or processing plant. 

Florrea understand that dust can create serious health and environmental issues for your mining operation. Without the proper dust control solution, challenges with dust can strain your bottom-line results. 

Many operators use water sprays alone to suppress dust and remain in compliance. However, this method is largely ineffective, as water droplets are too large to effectively keep bulk solids wet.

Dust is a problem in every operation that involves crushing, screening, conveying, receiving and storage of dry bulk materials. Water sprays have long been used in an attempt to control dust. However, many dusts – particularly those that are very finely divided – are extremely resistant to wetting by water.

Some coal dusts in particular are very difficult to wet with water alone, but can be quickly and completely wetted by adding small amounts of wetting agents to the water. Adding a wetting agent to water aids dust suppression in two ways:

For a given quantity of water, more effective dust control is attained

For a required level of dust control, less water is needed..

This is an important consideration where water is scarce or it is undesirable to have excess water added to the material being treated
Dust control is also for loss prevention, handling & safety.

Florrea maximizes the impact of water by offering solutions that use surfactant chemistry. 

Surfactants optimize the surface tension of the water, creating smaller droplets that impact more surface area to have a greater impact on dust. Further, to stretch water use, Florrea also offers  foam dust control solutions.

Specialty dust control and anti-oxidant solutions from mine to power plant

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® is an engineering blend of anti-oxidants, binders and foam suppression technology designed to mitigate unique handling issues associated with use of sub-bituminous coals and other reactive solid fuels. Florrea MiniCoalDust^® treatment is typically applied at mine sites to reap maximum benefit from mine loadout to power plant delivery.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Treatment Program

Florrea has developed a unique program of patented anti-oxidants, dust control binders and high-performance foam application systems to “body feed” the anti-oxidants and binders to PRB and other subbituminous coals at the mine site  – prior to loading into the rail cars or barges.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® technology retards the oxidation and weathering of low rank coals, which in turn reduces hot spots, smoker and spontaneous combustion at mines, coal terminals and at generating stations.

Binding Agents for coal

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Binding Agents

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® binding agents are patented dust control technologies designed to reduce fugitive dust emissions and inhibit the surface oxidation of low rank coals.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® binding agents combine the functionality of a long-term residual dust control binder, with an anti-oxidant capability. Florrea MiniCoalDust^® binders prevent dusting by two mechanisms – by agglomerating the fine particles as a binder and by reducing the weathering of the coal.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Binding Agents Features & Benefits
    ●Reduces dusting during loading, unloading, stack-out and reclamation
    ●Reduces in-transit coal losses from rail cars – may eliminate need for car topper treatments
    ●Retards the oxidation and weathering of low rank coals, such as Powder River Basin (PRB) coals
    ●Significantly reduces hot spots, smokers and spontaneous combustion at generating stations and coal terminals
    ●Reduces BTU or calorific losses during storage at coal yards and terminals

Foaming Agents of coal
Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Foaming Agents
The Florrea MiniCoalDust^® foaming agents are formulated to produce resilient, low surface tension foam to control fugitive dust throughout the mine, terminal, or power plant material handling system. In addition, when combined with MiniDust Binding agents they control dust on active storage piles and during reclaim operations.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® foaming agents offer the best available technology by providing effective dust control while minimizing moisture addition to              the coal or other solid fuel.

Florrea MiniCoalDust^® Foaming Agents Features & Benefits
    ●Provides residual control of fugitive emissions while minimizing moisture addition
    ●Produces high expansion foam with most plant waters
    ●Reduces maintenance and housekeeping costs
    ●Reduces explosion hazards and improve working conditions
    ●Improves worker health by reducing respirable dust emissions
    ●Environmentally safe
Contact us today to find out how we can partner with you to tailor a dust control solution that fits your operational needs.