Battery-Electric Dust Suppression Truck with a 60 m Mist Cannon

The cannon

The cannon throws water 30 to 60 m as a mist, opening to a 3 to 5 m plume. That range is the whole argument for a cannon over a sprinkler bar: you knock down airborne dust across a working face without driving into it. A 24 kW generator set drives the cannon.

Three more spray modes are on the same vehicle: a 18 m forward jet for the road ahead, 10 m rear spray for the surface behind, and a 40 to 60 m high-throw for stockpiles and screening plant.

Why this one is electric

A suppression truck spends its shift standing still or crawling. That is the awkward truth about the diesel version: the engine runs all day to drive the pump and the cannon, and it runs it at the working face — which is exactly where people are breathing the dust you were sent to suppress. Putting a diesel exhaust next to the dust problem has always been a compromise.

This vehicle is built on a BYD battery-electric chassis (BYD1180C2BEVC1). What that changes, in the order buyers actually care about:

1. No engine idling where the work happens. The cannon runs without an engine turning over beside it. On enclosed and semi-enclosed sites — tunnels, covered stockyards, demolition inside a structure, underground haulage — that is not a preference, it is often the only way the vehicle is allowed in at all.

2. It is quiet enough to work at night. Municipal dust and washing work is pushed to night shift precisely because traffic is light. A diesel unit doing that in a residential district generates complaints; an electric one generally does not.

3. Standing still costs almost nothing. An idling diesel burns fuel whether or not it is spraying. An electric drivetrain draws power for the work it does. On a duty cycle that is mostly stationary, that gap is the running-cost case.

4. It scores where electrification is being scored. Low-emission zones, municipal tenders that weight new-energy vehicles, and mine operators with their own emissions targets are all live in our buyers’ markets. If your tender has a clause about it, this is the vehicle that answers it.

5. The chassis is a name your workshop knows. BYD, not an unbranded conversion. Ask us for the chassis documentation and we will send it.

We publish what we have been given: the chassis model and the vehicle’s rated weights. Battery capacity and working range are specified per order with the chassis supplier — we would rather route that question to a real number for your duty cycle than print a headline figure here.

The rest of the vehicle

A 9.7 m3 tank, a plunger pump rated 2.2 to 3 kW at 1.5 to 2.0 MPa, on a two-axle chassis at 18 t gross. 8.56 m long overall, which keeps it turnable inside a working site rather than only on the access road.