Instant quoteFine dust on construction sites can become a problem. Fine particles get into the air when working with materials such as stone or concrete and spread there. From there, they can spread further, contaminate surfaces and enter the lungs of employees and nearby people through respiration. Reasonable emission control is, therefore, essential on many construction sites. With the modern dust binding systems from MobyDick, you are on the safe side.
Dust binding: Indispensable on the construction site
Construction sites make dust – in many cases, its formation cannot be avoided, for example, during demolition or renovation work. Not only well visible dirt is produced where heavy equipment is used. Fine dust can also be the result. Dust particles are then deposited on surfaces and objects in the vicinity. That doesn’t just look unattractive. It can also have unintended negative consequences. Dust on construction sites can affect the health of your employees. If the fine powder is inhaled, it gets into the lungs and can cause damage there.
This is particularly problematic if the fine dust is inhaled repeatedly. The emissions can also attack equipment and vehicles. If thick layers of dust are deposited on them, vehicles and machines can be restricted in their function or even suffer permanent damage. Emission control on construction sites is, therefore, essential for the health of your employees, residents, and passers-by. Still, it is also necessary for the longest possible operation of vehicles and machines.
Emission control to supplement other cleaning measures
As the operator, you are responsible for emission control on your construction site. With a suitable dust-binding system, you can precipitate dust from the air. This enables you to protect people and equipment and to comply with applicable limit values. Last but not least, sufficient dust binding is essential for external appearance.
Every construction site that you operate is a figurehead for your company. If it is extremely dirty there, it can damage your reputation. Emission control is particularly useful in combination with other cleaning measures. This includes the cleaning of your vehicles and construction machinery, which should be regularly cleaned of dirt. For this reason, FRUTIGER also offers wheel washing systems and demucking solutions from one source.
Dust Binding in Factories
Large quantities of dust are generated in many locations, not just on construction sites. The environments typically heavily affected by dust include factory settings. Manufacturers should bind the dust that results from their activities to protect the health of their employees. Dust forms in many places in factories. Possible places of origin include machines, systems and assembly lines and transportation routes on which vehicles are allowed to move around. Areas in which particular processes take place are also commonly affected.
This is especially the case where raw materials are shredded or ground, for example. Dust formation is often particularly intense in some factories and it, consequently, requires the use of high-performance binding systems. Dust binding poses a challenge when production processes take place in a closed space. Dust will be less distributed in such locations than on an open construction site. Therefore, it is important to have an effective dust control system with modern technology, such as those available from MobyDick.
The Minimisation of Downtime
In industry, the use of dust control systems is particularly popular to reduce downtime as much as possible. In extreme cases, heavy dust formation leads to stoppages in production processes in factories. In an industrial environment, for example, there will be numerous specifications relating to threshold limit values.
If a production process leads to these limit values exceeding their threshold, then production must be stopped immediately. However, this can be reliably avoided by using appropriate systems as countermeasures. In this regard, it is crucial that an eye is kept on the threshold limit values. At the latest, dust binding should start when you are approaching the corresponding values in your factory. In turn, this will prevent work from having to cease for a time. Using these systems in factories offers two main advantages.
Firstly, it reduces the amount of dust that is generated during work processes and gets released into the air. Besides, the use of spray mist makes sure that dust that has already formed falls on the floor and remains there. Many processes that go on in factories, such as vehicles driving past, stir up dust. Large amounts of dust often accumulate in closed production facilities. This whirling up of dust can be a major problem. The consistent use of a dust-binding system is the best solution to tackle the matter. It ensures that all production processes can continue without interruption.
Protect Machinery and Electronics as Much as Possible
Numerous machines, electrical devices and systems of various sizes are used in factories. Their components are susceptible to dust. For instance, computer parts can malfunction if dust builds up heavily within a machine. Furthermore, dust can also enter vehicles, such as forklift trucks. It can also damage the electronics of these vehicles or lead to a greater amount of wear and tear. Dust-binding systems offer decisive advantages in this regard. They bind the dust before it can penetrate machines or the housings of your factory equipment.
Dust Control Systems Offer These Advantages for the Health of Your Employees
Dust has a harmful effect on health. It gets into living organisms particularly easily if the particles are very small. Fine dust stays in the air for longer periods of time and, as a consequence, your employees may inhale it directly. The damage to health that dust can cause depends on the environment and the processes that produce the dust.
Fine dust can penetrate the lungs of your employees and could impair the function of those organs. In extreme cases, it could be that the dust even destroys the alveoli. Breathing masks do offer some degree of employee protection, however. Nevertheless, these devices are only suitable as a measure to keep away the dust that is already in the air. It is better to use additional dust-binding systems instead. These prevent dust from spreading into the air at all.
It is the combination of the various measures they carry out that makes them particularly effective. Basically, even the smallest particles of dust can have serious consequences. Employers in various industries are required to reduce the concentration of dust in the air to protect the health of their employees. Bear in mind that humans have their own filtration system. Microscopic cilia in the bronchi carry captured particles into the upper respiratory tract.
In this way, an employee can cough up any dust particles that have deposited in his or her bronchial mucus. However, this only works up to a certain load limit. Typical signs of excessive demands on this self-cleaning process include irritation and inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. Coughing and bronchitis indicate that further protective measures are necessary. Proper dust control systems with spray mist are the best solution as a supplement to the mandatory use of breathing masks.
The Best Protection: Prevent Dust from Spreading Right from the Outset
Optimal health protection starts at the source of the problem and will bind dust from where it originates. For example, in places where production processes take place. Note that the most dreaded forms of fine dust can consist of particles that are only five micrometres in size. It often takes hours for these to settle down onto the floor. Once there, passing employees and moving vehicles may whirl it up again immediately. If you want to protect the health of your employees optimally, then the use of dust-binding systems will be necessary. In this way, you will be able to ensure that even fine dust does not spread into the air.
Dust Binding in the Context of Environmental Protection
Dust binding protects employees and the environment in equal measure. This is because a high level of dust being produced often goes hand in hand with pollution. As an entrepreneur, you also want to keep an eye on environmental issues and use dust binding systems in this regard, too. In this manner, you will comply with all legal requirements in this field and also make your contribution to environmental protection.
The principle applies that environmentally harmful effects can best be avoided if dust is not even allowed to spread. A spray mist from a dust control system will do just that. Consequently, the use of such systems is particularly advantageous on construction sites, in factories and in many other commercial areas of work.
Companies in the waste, recycling and construction industries are encouraged to reduce their emissions. They are supposed to prevent dust from entering the environment from their systems and their local surroundings. Authorities and environmental agencies measure such pollution and take action if it exceeds the permitted thresholds. Conflicts can also arise with residents who suffer from local dust pollution.
Solving Emission Problems with Modern Technology
Those who want to counter their emission problems effectively can rely on the powerful systems from MobyDick. The systems are state-of-the-art. They also ensure compliance with the air quality regulations that apply in Western countries. The proven ability to bind dust with water droplets is ideal for this area and meets all modern requirements. These systems are based on the use of water and appropriate pumps to generate and distribute a mist.
It is not necessary to use chemicals, which could otherwise have an environmentally harmful effect. Spray mist from water is simply harmless. This has the advantage that it can be used in practically any location. Modern dust binding systems comply with environmental requirements and protect nature on sites. MobyDick is one of the leading brands in this field. As a manufacturer, FRUTIGER also offers other high-performance cleansing systems, for example for wheel washing equipment.
How the MobyDick dust binding technology works
While conventional dust binding systems expel water droplets of about one millimeter in diameter, the individual droplets in MobyDick are significantly smaller and, therefore, much more numerous. They measure only 50 to 150 microns for outdoor use. For indoor applications, the drops are even more elegant – their diameter is between 20 and 80 micrometers.
This creates a fine mist with an enormous number of fine water droplets, which combine with dust grains in the air. The advantages of the technology of MobyDick’s dust binding systems are not only the more significant number of water droplets that can bind the dust. Due to their low weight, they also fall more slowly to the ground. This leaves more water droplets in the air and can wet dust.
Dust binding systems by MobyDick: Efficient and long-lasting
The MobyDick Cannon Line is a selection of modern dust binding equipment. The cone made of composite fiber distributes the water mist over a large area in the air area to be cleaned of dust. Composite fiber has proven its worth as a material because unlike sheet steel, composite fiber is stainless. The material also absorbs noise and can be repaired simply and easily if necessary. Besides, this unique technology consumes very little electricity, which makes the use of a MobyDick system for dust binding particularly economical.
Dust binding tailored to your needs
Every construction site is unique. Only with a dust binding system that is tailored to the situation on-site and your needs, you have invested your money optimally. Therefore the FRUTIGER Company AG as the manufacturer of the brand MobyDick offers you different options for the dust binding systems. This makes it easy to adapt the system individually to the conditions on-site and your specific wishes. The function can also be extended with additional components.
Reliable and robust: Emission control with the Cannon Line
All models of the MobyDick Cannon Line are manufactured in ISO-certified production plants of FRUTIGER. Only high-quality and durable components are used, which ensures a long service life of the dust binding systems. A robust frame made of hot-dip galvanized steel makes the dust binding systems resistant to wear and corrosion. The nozzles of the systems for dust binding are arranged in a ring shape.
This is ideal if you want to wash large areas of dust from the air. The two-level filter system prevents the clogging of the nozzles. This makes a failure of the plants to dust vibration less likely. The dust binding systems from MobyDick can be used flexibly: they can be electrically pivoted up to 360°. This works automatically or manually, depending on the model. The cone itself can be adjusted in height up to 60°. In this way, you can reach various areas in the air to reliably free them from dust.
According to your wishes: The TailorMade Line
Dust binding systems are always the most effective and efficient when they are optimally tailored to the needs of the user. This is what the Dust Control TailorMade Line from MobyDick is for. The manufacturer FRUTIGER Company AG produces the corresponding dust binding systems according to the individual specifications of the customers. This is particularly useful if you are facing particular challenges when it comes to emission control. It is best to obtain comprehensive advice before you decide on a variant. So you can find the dust-laying system that suits you and your construction site.
MobyDick: The leading brand for Site Emission Control
The Swiss company FRUTIGER Company AG developed the brand MobyDick more than 30 years ago. Today, the brand is considered the world leader in site emission control. In 72 countries and more than 6000 installations of MobyDick, not only dust is reliably washed out of the air. With MobyDick Demucking Systems and MobyDick Wheel Washing Systems, trucks and heavy equipment are reliably cleaned.
Thanks to optimal maintenance, the vehicles and machines can be used over a long period as intended. The risk of a defect in the devices is reduced. The streets and other areas are kept clean – also and especially where there is a lot of dirt and dust. The technologies also function in a particularly resource-saving manner, which reduces costs in day-to-day operations and, not least, benefits the environment. Get in touch now and find out more about effective dust control!
