Technology News 437: Total Mill Ventilation System for Mineral Processing Facilities

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• Journal Article:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, TN 437
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  Many mineral processing operations have difficulty meeting Federal standards for respirable dust. All mineral processing operations use some type of engineering controls to address their most significant dust sources. Engineering controls include such things as baghouse-type dust collectors, scrubbers, and electrostatic precipitation. A total mill ventilation system can lower mill-wide dust concentrations, hence reducing respirable dust exposures of workers in mineral processing operations. The system uses clean air drawn in at the base of the building to dilute and remove dust from contaminated areas within the mill structure. This dust-laden air is then exhausted out near the top of the building. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Minerals Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Mineral-processing; Mineral-dusts; Respirable-dust; Dust-control; Dust-control-equipment; Dust-exposure; Dust-inhalation; Ventilation-systems; Milling-industry
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, TN 437, 1994 May; :1-2
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10004747
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8cfe9476f6bf7b7c1603e418c3f0e66e08fbdf4b679baf7e8a1e11ea7fcc5f78b4c82e3a41f8704345a781042045f3373a402d9ad12449c77cd31a67bc2436e9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9861/cdc_9861_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 85.69 KB ]