BigPatents India

A product for dust control and freeze control, wherein the product comprises a mixture from about 45 to about 90 weight percent of glycerin, from about 50 weight percent of water and from about 2 to about 15 weight percent of a water soluble salt is described and claimed. The product may be diluted with about 10 to about 400 weight percent of water for use, based on the amount of the product present. The freezing point of the product fro example may be about-35°C. The product may be synthesized using commercially available chemicals, or it may be derived from vegetable oils, or it may be a by product from a biodiesel manufacturing process of forming fatty acid esters from vegetable oils.