Power plants experience increased dust buildup when handling PRB coal. PRB coal “Float Dust” spreads throughout the plant, collecting on the loor, beams, equipment, and light ixtures creating ire and explosion risks. Proactive housekeeping practices, including wash downs, are necessary to maintain safe operations.

Dust Wash is our cleaning solution for helping you manage the risk associated with coal dust buildup. Jointly developed by HCT and a major power company, Dust Wash is the efective, economical, and easy to use solution for removing loat dust as part of good housekeeping practices. Dust Wash is a combined encapsulator and foaming agent. Applied at a 1% solution through a 2-3 gpm power washer, Dust Wash encapsulates the coal dust, while the foaming action lifts the dust from the surface.

Dust Wash’s efectiveness through a power washer minimizes water usage. Tripper rooms and other areas of the plant typically have inadequate drainage systems to handle the weekly or daily wash downs required when handling PRB coal. As a solution, power plants wash tripper room dust into their bunkers. The addition of too much water in the bunkers could lead to spontaneous combustion of coal in the bunker.

Dust Wash delivered through a low low pressure washer minimizes water used in wash downs and thus drainage requirements.

Dust Wash usage is economical. A 1% solution delivered at 2-3 gpm, consumes very little Dust Wash. A 55-gallon drum will provide thirty plus hours of continuous
cleaning.