FDC - 1000
Flying Dust Control coating
Breakthrough solution to airborne dust
The problem
Airborne dust is a growing concern worldwide, especially in mining and industrial activities.
Dust released by mining, construction, demolition, farming, transportation, quarrying, waste/water treatment, and materials processing (to name just a few) has severe effects on public health, vehicles and equipment, and, of course, on the environment.
Airborne dust may carry multiple toxins, carcinogens, and caustic chemicals. Health effects range from skin and eye irritation to respiratory diseases and even cancers. Equipment effects include corrosion, component failure, and downtime. Environmental effects such as wildlife and fish disease, water and land pollution, and reduced light and visibility have been documented tens or even hundreds of kilometers from the dust source.
The above picture is only getting worse. Overall, dust volumes are increasing, and new processing technologies are making the dust particles finer, lighter, more dangerous, and difficult to control.
Until recently, regulators tended to view airborne dust as a “necessary evil” of industrial development, and codes were generally lenient.
That is changing fast. Growing awareness of the severe impact of airborne dust leads to far more stringent dust abatement regulations in many jurisdictions.
Owners and industrial operators increasingly find themselves struggling to comply.
Achieving this goal will contribute to reducing local and global air pollution. In addition, it will help the owners support ESG regulation and facilitate international licensing and recognition for LCA or EPD.
The solution
New thinking out of the box was needed. Innovative and ecological solutions were required to meet, on the one hand, the need to reduce the floating dust inside the mine, around the piles of processed material, and around the general access roads (not on roads that vehicles travel on) and on the other hand would reduce or eliminate as much as possible the use of the precious water resource.
Today’s dust control solutions are problematic. They include mechanical filters, vacuums, blowers, and water sprayers that capture or divert dust, electromagnetic technologies that polarize and clump dust, and trees, screens, and other physical barriers designed to block dust. But all of these try to reduce dust that has already been released. They treat the “symptoms” and not the “disease”.
In contrast, NANO Z’s FDC-1000 treats the disease at the source. FDC–1000 prevents combat from being airborne in the first place!
FDC-1000 is a 100% ecological, biodegradable, transparent, environmentally friendly water-based compound. Spray it on any material, and the surface becomes “controlled dust”. With just one spray, FDC-1000 acts molecularly as a skinny coating layer, binding the top layer and “hardening” it, and thus, the dust particles are fixed to the surface. The coated surface is no longer affected by winds or a passing vehicle and will not turn into airborne dust. This crust can be described as a thin, hard layer of chocolate on a cake (but transparent).
FDC-1000 saves huge costs of fixed equipment required for water spraying, maintenance, personnel for operation, water costs, and reduction of corrosion damage to tools and machinery.
Uniquely, FDC-1000 does not affect the base material. It is entirely transparent, odorless, safe, and does not change its properties in any way.
Application places:
FDC-1000 is ideal for any dust-generating application: mines, quarries, sludge ponds, mine tailings, aggregate processing facilities of all types, construction and demolition sites, farms and food processing facilities, gypsum, coal, phosphate, sand, limestone facilities, cement, etc. ‘, bulk transport, roads, land reclamation, marine environments, desert areas, and much m
How to use:
FDC-1000 is mixed with clean water (ratio of 1:3 – 1:5 depending on substrate type)
Means of application:
Standard high-quality manual sprayer, electric or mechanical air sprayer, water spraying/ misting machines or tankers, spray planes.
Packaging:
FDC-1000 is available in: IBC 1000 kg.
Storage:
In a shaded place at an ambient temperature of 2-55 degrees Celsius (36-130 F)
Cleaning tools:
Clean water