Fugitive Dust Handbook

9.0   STORAGE PILE WIND BLOWN DUST

Dust emissions are generated by wind erosion of exposed aggregate materials storage piles within an industrial facility. Field testing of coal piles and other exposed aggregate material surfaces using a portable wind tunnel has shown that particulate emission rates from these sources with a finite availability of erodible material tend to decay rapidly during a wind erosion event. The primary PM emission estimation methodology for storage pile wind erosion presented in the fugitive dust handbook is taken from Section 13.2.5 of AP-42 last updated in January 1995. The sample control measure cost-effectiveness calculation spreadsheet presented for this source category involves erecting a three-sided enclosure to act as a wind fence around the storage pile.