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Comparison of conventional and bio-treated methods as dust suppressants

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Dust is an environmental, geotechnical, health, and economical hazard. Fugitive dust emanating along transportation systems such as roads, railways, and airports especially can have significant impacts on health, safety, material loss, cost of maintenance, and interfere with the facilities. Quantitative studies on the effectiveness of the proper dust palliatives and their environmental impact have been studied with a number of biological and chemical methods. The objective of this study was to establish a method for using the microbial Induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) approach to reduce the percent of mass loss against erosive force of wind regarding to the concentration and characteristics of aggregate used, climate, and traffic amounts. The results of this study showed that the required precipitation for dust control of sand by 70% is less than 15 g CaCO3/m2 between sand grains in bio-treated sand. The wind tunnel test results of this study also indicate that the effectiveness of the bio-treatment method for dust control depends on many variables, such as the percent of precipitated calcium carbonate and tensile strength.

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The contents of this paper were developed under a grant from the fund of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. All the laboratory experiments were conducted in School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University.

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  1. Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran

    Maryam Naeimi

  2. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Jian Chu

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Naeimi, M., Chu, J. Comparison of conventional and bio-treated methods as dust suppressants. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 23341–23350 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9889-1

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