Suspended dust

Suspended dust is retained on a membrane filter and its amount is ascertained from the increase in mass of the filter [27]. 

The sedimenting dust is collected over a period of 1 month in glass vessels containing water (in winter, a mixture of water and alcohol) mostly freestanding at the locality of interest. After exposure, the liquid is evaporated and the vessel is weighed. 

It is useful to perform a further analysis of the retained sedimenting dust. Even a simple separation of the sample into fractions (water-insoluble, water-soluble and benzene-soluble fractions) yields very useful data about its general character. 

Chemical analysis provides much more precise data about the sample, particularly the determination of metallic elements, mainly lead, cadmium, iron, calcium, sodium as well a.s anions, chlorides, fluorides, nitrates, carbonates and sulphates. The analyses are performed most frequently by spectrophotometry, atomic absorption spectrometry, or polarography in recent years radionuclide X-ray fluorescence and activation analysis have been used. 

Spectrophotometric determination. In the sample of the dust fall-out, silicon dioxide is transformed into a solution by melting with a mixture NaHC03 -f NaCl. The silicic acid formed yields Molybdenum Blue by reaction with ammonium molybdate and the concentration is determined by spectrophotometric measurements. The portion of amorphous silicon dioxide is dissolved by boiling with NaOH solution and the determination is performed in the same way as mentioned above [18]. 

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For combustible dusts, the explosibility limits do not have the same meaning as with flammable gases and flammable vapors, owing to the interaction between dust layers and suspended dust. This protective measure can, for example, be used when dust deposits are avoided in operating areas or in the air stream of clean air lines after filter installations WTiere in normal operation the lower explosibility limit is not reached. However, dust deposits must be anticipated with time. When these dust deposits are whirled up in the air, an explosion hazard can arise. Such a hazard can be avoided by regular cleaning. The dust can be extracted directly at its point of origin by suitable ventilation measures. 

During the drying time, the workpiece may collect dust from suspended dust particles in the atmosphere. 

Ventilation The paint shop must be well ventilated and provided with exhaust fans to circulate fresh air within the shop. Roughly 20 to 30 air discharges per hour are considered adequate. Wet-painted surfaces, however, must be protected from suspended dust particles in the atmosphere and this can be done by... 

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Vei y small solid fuel particles such as sawdust, agricultural grains, or coal dust can sustain flames when they are suspended in air. In fact, very serious fires have occurred in grain storage towers and coal mines because of the flammability of suspended dusts. The combustion of the individual particles follows the usual pattern of solid particle burning— devolatization and char burning. The combustion of the whole cloud of particles is similar to spray combustion and its characteristics depend on the nature of the fuel, size of the particles, and the number of particles in a given volume. 

Figure 12-123B-2. Wear strip construction on induced draft fan for dirty gases. The inertia of suspended dust particles carries them toward the backplate or centerplate where the wear plate withstands the abrasion normally affecting the blade. (Used by permission Bui. 2-5100. The Howden Fan Co.)...

Singer A., Dultz S., Argaman E. Properties of the non-soluble fractions of suspended dust over the Dead Sea. Atmos. Environ. 2004 38 1745-1753. 

The next task in considering the electrostatic hazards associated with a fluidized bed is to consider the specific conditions required for the ignition of suspended dust and powders. It is crucial to cover this subject because... 

Preliminaries. The combustion of suspended dusts and powders is quite complex and only imperfectly understood. The complexity stems from both fundamental and practical considerations. On the fundamental side, the ignition of suspensions of finely divided solids is influenced by hard-to-quantify factors such as the time-varying concentration of solids, the chemical activity and morphology of the particulate, and the degree of confinement provided by the vessel. On the practical side, industrial conditions are seldom sufficiently well-controlled or characterized to justify application of existing theoretical models. For all the above reasons, this chapter can provide only a very abbreviated coverage of ignition basics. The reader is referred to other sources for in-depth treatment of dust and powder explosions (Bodurtha, 1980 Bartknecht, 1981 Bartknecht, 1987). 

An electrostatic dust ignition can occur when the discharge releases sufficient thermal energy within a sufficiently short period of time and small volume to ignite the suspended dust. Electrostatic ignition is complicated by the fact that there are a number of distinct ESD mechanisms important in electrostatic hazards and hazard abatement (Glor, 1988). 

Explosion Propagation of a flame in a premixture of combustible gases, suspended dust(s), combustible vapor(s), mist(s), or mixtures thereof, in a gaseous oxidant such as air, in a closed or substantially closed vessel. 

The use of cyclone separators for the removal of suspended dust particles from gases is discussed in Section 1.6. By suitable choice of operating conditions, it is also possible to... 

The need to remove suspended dust and mist from a gas arises not only in the treatment of effluent gas from a plant before it is discharged into the atmosphere, but also in processes where solids or liquids are carried over in the vapour or gas stream. For example, in an evaporator it is frequently necessary to eliminate droplets which become entrained in the vapour, and in a plant involving a fluidised solid the removal of fine particles is necessary, first to prevent loss of material, and secondly to prevent contamination of the gaseous product. Further, in all pneumatic conveying plants, some form of separator must be provided at the downstream end. 

C Foundry workers Foundry sands Silica crystals Suspended dusts Inhalation... 

These are used for removal of suspended dust particles from gases. The rate of settling of suspended particles in a gas stream may be greatly increased if centrifugal rather than gravitational forces are... 

L. Pasteur, J. Tyndall, E. T. Chapman, P. Miquel, W. Spring, F. Schulz, etc. Air may be freed from dust particles, etc., in suspension by filtration through biscuit earthenware, asbestos, or cotton wool. When a beam of sunlight is passed through unfiltered air, it reveals a multitude of motes constantly in motion. Lucretius, in his Be natura remm (2.113, 60 b.c.), has given a very vivid description of the phenomenon. With filtered air, there is no such eflect, and J. Tyndall said that such air is optically empty. F. O. Rice showed that in a number of reactions— e.g. the oxidation of soln. of sodium arsenite or sulphite, the decomposition of hydrogen dioxide, etc.—the suspended dust in air acts as a catalytic agent. 

The dustiness index of coal is a means of determining the relative values that represent the amount of dust produced when coal is handled in a standard manner. Thus, a 50-lb sample of coal is placed on a slide plate in a metal cabinet of prescribed size. When the plate is withdrawn, the sample falls into a drawer, and after 5 seconds, two slides are inserted into the box. The slides collect suspended dust particles for 2 minutes (coarse dust) or for 10 minutes (fine dust). The dustiness index is reported as 40 times the gram weight of dust that has settled after either 2 minutes or after an additional 8 minutes. 

Imagine an industrial stack which contaminates the environment. The pollution of the air is measured as metal concentrations in suspended dust. Using the metal emission profile of the dust from the stack as a target it is possible to estimate the part of the pollution variance which results from this industrial stack. 

The representativeness of samples is a very important premise for true assessment of the state of air pollution. The following example demonstrates the temporal frequency necessary for objective assessment of the impact of emissions of total suspended dust at one sampling location [GEISS et al., 1991] ... 

Comparison with the highest possible values of a multivariate random correlation (see also Section 6.6.3) shows a correlation period of approximately two weeks and two days. This means that sampling of suspended dust at intervals of two weeks is sufficient for the characterization of the average impact of multielement emissions (for all investigated elements simultaneously) at that particular sampling point. 

Fig. 7-1. Multivariate autocorrelation function of the sampling interval for suspended dust...

FA was next applied to identify and to characterize sources of the airborne particulates in the different particle sizes. The use of FA for solving this task is described in the literature, e.g. for total suspended dust and for total sedimented airborne particulates [KEIDING et al., 1987 EINAX and DANZER, 1989], For the present problem the question is is it possible to obtain plausible and interpretable solutions by applying FA to each particle size fraction if they are very similar in their composition ... 

What happens to herbicides after they are applied A proportion will be taken up by plants and either stored or metabolized (biochemically transformed to other substances, as we have seen). The metabolites, as well as the remaining parent and other breakdown products, eventually will reach water and soil (6 ), from which they may volatilize into the atmosphere or move on suspended dust or silt [sometimes for great distance (30)] eventually to decompose or be returned to earth in an ever-diminishing cycle. 

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