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Review and prospects of mining chemical dust suppressant: classification and mechanisms

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Coal mine pollution is a serious threat to the mine safe production and occupational health of miners. Chemical dust suppression can effectively reduce the concentration of coal dust and suppress the re-entrainment of dust. This paper discusses the research progress of three kinds of traditional dust suppressants: the wetting-type, cohesive type, and condensed type. In order to meet dust suppression and environmental protection requirements, 7 kinds of new type dust suppressants, such as compound, ecological environmental protection, polymer, functional, microbes, and enzymes, have been developed by the predecessors. And all kinds of dust suppressant mechanism and main performance index have been summarized. Through the analysis of the research results from 1985 to 2021, it is found that the compound and environment-friendly dust suppressants have gradually become the research focus in this field, accounting for 17.93% and 26.21% of the total number of achievements. In the recent 5 years, new materials, such as microbe suppressant, urease suppressant, and nanomaterials, have gradually emerged. Because of their natural and environmental protection characteristics, it could be predicted that they will become the future development trend in this field. However, there are still some problems to be improved, such as expensive price and complex preparation technology.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 52104202) and the Key Technologies Research and Development Program (grant number 2017YFC0805203).

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All the authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Haiming Yu, Rongxiao Xu, Weimin Cheng, Yuxi Ye, Sen Xie, Junwei Zhao, and Yu Cheng. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Hui Dong, and all the authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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• Sorted out the timeline of the development of dust suppressants.

• Analyzed and studied the development status of dust suppressants.

• Summarized the main performance evaluation indexes of dust suppressants.

• Clarify the current research hotspots of dust suppressants.

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Dong, H., Yu, H., Xu, R. et al. Review and prospects of mining chemical dust suppressant: classification and mechanisms. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 18–35 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-23840-w

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