to the water nozzles 26 may be arranged in a row along the curved side wall 30 of the center section and inject water tangentially to the vortex flow in the center section fig2 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the dust collector and removal system 10 showing a water pump 38 supply water to the water injectors 22 26 from a water source 40 the water pump provides water to the water injections such as a row of water nozzles 26 and to a water nozzle 44 mounted on end wall 42 a second end wall 46 opposite to the first end wall 42 includes a water and air flow outlet 48 that may be a tapered duct coupled to the second end wall a suction is applied to the outlet to draw air and water from the center section 34 the suction at least partially creates the vortex within the center section the vortex is also formed by the tangentially injected water sprays from injectors 24 and 26 and the tangential flow of air from the passage section into the center section to create suction and to extract the air and water a conduit 50 directs the dust and water laden air into a separator 52 e g cyclone that has an upper outlet coupled to a vacuum source such as a fan 54 and that has a lower drain that flows to a water and dust collector 56 the dust may be filtered from the water using conventional water processing techniques fig3 illustrates in cross section an embodiment of a dust collector and removal system 100 having an extended inlet 108 for dust collection and removal dust laden air 102 is pulled into an opening 103 of the inlet and.