CalCert & CARB Certify
Technology To Control PM10
The California Air Resource Board (CARB), one of the world’s leading advocates of new environmental technologies, and the California Environmental Technology Certification Program (CalCert), an internationally recognized independent, scientific and engineering evaluator of environmental performance, have certified Soil-Sement® performance. Soil-Sement® is highly effective for controlling PM10 and PM2.5. These certifications offer users and clients performance assurances when reliability is important and the cost of failure unacceptable.
The CARB report states:
California Environmental
Technology Certification
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 39620 the California Health and Safety Code
Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc.’s
Soil-Sement®
is hereby recognized as a
CERTIFIED TECHNOLOGY
with the following established level of performance
"When topically applied as a dust suppressant in accordance with manufacturers instructions, including a total target concentration of 0.28 gallons of concentrate per square yard of treated surface applied in multiple passes in a single day, Soil-Sement® reduced PM10 emissions by approximately 84 percent after 339 days and 6,780 vehicles (predominantly light-duty) passes on an unpaved roadway consisting of a silty, sandy loam.
Soil-Sement® does not contain detectable levels of polycyclic organic matter which includes polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons as defined by the Federal Clean Act section 112 (b); nor does Soil-Sement® contain detectable levels of fluorinated or brominated compounds that could be expected to contribute to ozone depletion or global warming.”
Certificate Number (02-02-059) became effective April 11, 2002 for a period of three years unless revoked in accordance with Section 91400 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations.
Winston H. Hickox
Agency Secretary
California Environmental Protection Agency
Also, in a comprehensive study just released by the U.S. Army Research and Development Center of 12 non-traditional stabilizers and three traditional types, Soil-Sement® (one of the non-traditional types) showed its potential to increase the Unconfined Compressive (UC) strength of silty sand (SM) material under both “wet” and dry conditions.
The results verified that Soil-Sement® polymer emulsion SIGNIFICANTLY improved the UC strength of the SM material (58% in dry test conditions and 208% in wet conditions). Except for cement and polymers, other traditional and non-traditional stabilizers provided no significant potential.
View this Cal-Cert Press Release and Certificate for Soil-Sement as an Acrobat PDF document.