Products: Dust Control
Earthbind™ Water Truck (Earthbind-WT) Product Overview
Controlling fugitive dust with daily water truck operations is a losing battle. As the water quickly evaporates from the soil, your dust problem returns, and there is very little reward for the wasted efforts and precious water resources.
However, it’s a common perception that controlling fugitive dust on unpaved surfaces using water alone is an economical method. Yet, it’s surprising to find out the true cost of suppressing fugitive dust with water. In reality, construction companies, mining operations, and oil and gas service industry are spending significantly more now since the price of diesel is approaching record highs, increased labor costs and equipment maintenance.
Plus because of the constant addition of water applied onto the wearing course of a road it most likely will start to pump fine material to the surface leading to more maintenance. Using water to control fugitive dust simply turns dust into mud! And there is the added cost of the repetitious blading and re-shaping of the road that becomes necessary when large volumes of water is repeatedly thrown onto the road.
Earthbind-WT is a common sense approach when fighting fugitive dust on any unpaved road using a standard water truck. . Earthbind-WT greatly reduces the cost of controlling dust compared to using water while the amount of dust generated is significantly decreased.
Earthbind-WT is an emulsified resin modified biopolymer that is sold and shipped as a liquid concentrate. Earthbind-WT concentrate is simply added to a water truck and diluted with water to make anywhere from a 2.5% to 10% percent solution. This solution is then applied to any dusty unpaved surface on a daily, bi-weekly, or weekly schedule. The resins and biopolymers in the applied solution of Earthbind-WT will bind the silty dust particles together preventing them from becoming airborne. Then subsequent maintenance applications will cause Earthbind-WT to build up and after a period of time, due to the accumulative residual of product, the application of Earthbind-WT can be suspended or reduced until blow on, tracked on, or traffic generated dust warrants another quick application of product.
Earthbind-WT will provide a continuous and enduring accumulation of the product into the soil/aggregate road material.
Benefits of Earthbind-WT
- Designed to effectively treat fugitive dust on construction, oil & gas service roads, and mine haul roads
- Very user friendly
- Does not require expensive application equipment – can be applied using a standard water truck
- Quick application without road closures
- Effective on roads built with poor or loose aggregates and can be used on very coarse textured road aggregates lacking sufficient fines
- Very effective on roads that receive excessive "blown-on" or "tracked-on" dust or spillage from dump trucks or mine hauling equipment
- Used to effectively control dust throughout the dry season
- Easy cleanup
- Can be used effectively on heavily traveled roads where other products have failed
