Benchmark Monitoring Dust Management Package

Benchmark Monitoring’s integrated Dust Management Package enables site monitoring data to be used to continuously inform the autonomous control of dust management measures. 

The Dust Management Package  facilitates:

• Operational improvements through enhanced dust management to meet Site Management Plan air quality objectives
• Demonstration of best practice approach to measurement, surveillance and control process for regulatory compliance purposes.

The Dust Management Package has been specifically developed for heavy industry operations (such as open cut mines, quarries and power stations) requiring dust suppression for operational activities including raw materials handling, stockpile management, fly ash dams and haul road management.  Benchmark Monitoring’s Dust Management Package consists of industry leading instrumentation, control hardware and industrial recognised software platforms.  The system is field proven and can be adapted to suit individual site applications.    

Integrated Dust Management Package.jpg Dust Management Package components: Monitoring stations - real time dust monitors, IP cameras, meteorological instruments on solar powered mobile platforms allowing rapid relocation for maximum flexibility to meet changing operational needs. Benchmark data management system comprised of industrial grade processing engine and custom software application. Benchmark field controllers providing automation of dust abatement and suppression equipment such as water booms, water cannon and water curtain’s. Wireless communications network providing seamless real-time communication for both control and data acquisition.

The Dust Management Package components are supplied in a rugged format suitable to withstand the harsh environmental conditions of an industrial site.

Dust Managemanet Package features:

• Web portal service for access to dust management system status, control parameters, data visualisation and alarming
• Control conditions defined in plain English
• Clear visualisation of exceedance and actions implemented to rectify
• User customisable alarm notifications allowing SMS and email notifications
• Robust control and acquisition platform with expansion capacity if specific site requirements arise
• Data logging and auto backfill of data should network connection to field sites be interrupted
• Support of multiple data formats which can be exported to client data systems
• Customisable time averaging outputs e.g. 5min, 10min,15min, 1hr or 24hr averages for particulate and meteorological data
• Capture of event based images and/or live streaming of visual data
• Tailored to monitor and maintain critical control and emergency shutdown for hardware
• Ability to import predictive forecast models to facilitate proactive dust management