Research on factors affecting the spread of dust pollution in conveyor belt workshop and research on wet dust reduction technology

PLoS One. 2024 Feb 23;19(2):e0299328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299328. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

At this stage, there are many dust-hazardous industries, and occupational pneumoconiosis has a high incidence for a long time. To solve the dust pollution problem in coal processing plant workshops, the dust particle field and liquid droplet particle field were numerically simulated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and the influences of the induced airflow and corridor wind speed on the internal airflow field of the workshop were investigated to derive the dust pollution mechanism in the coal plant workshop under the change in the wind flow field. In this study, it was shown that the wind flow rate in the coal processing plant workshop is mainly affected by the corridor wind speed, and the higher the corridor wind speed is, the higher the wind flow rate. The induced airflow mainly affected the direction of the wind flow field in the workshop. According to the conclusions obtained from the simulations, a spray dust reduction system was designed for the coal processing plant workshop and applied in the Huangyuchuan coal processing plant. On-site measurement revealed that the dust reduction effect inside the coal processing plant workshop is obvious, and the overall dust reduction efficiency in the workshop reaches more than 94%, which meets the requirements of environmentally sustainable development and clean production.

MeSH terms

  • Coal / analysis
  • Coal Mining*
  • Dust / analysis
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Humans
  • Pneumoconiosis*

Substances

  • Dust
  • Coal

Grants and funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2020-MS-304);Liaoning provincial funding for scientific research projects (LJK0323). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.