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• Metering and Distribution Improvements to Increase the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Rock Dusters
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop and implement a prototype rock duster that will use sensing technology to determine the amount of coal dust in the mine atmosphere and distribute an appropriate amount of rock dust to effectively inert the coal dust present.
• LiDAR Technology Adaptation to Underground Coal Mines for Float Coal Dust and Rock Dust Mapping Applications
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate LiDAR sensing technology to estimate dispersion distances of float coal dust and assess adequacies of rock dust coverage over large areas.
• Investigation of Reduced Order Fire Modeling for Improved Safety and Response in Underground Coal Mines
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to advance the body of knowledge in mine fires through modeling and application to ensure improved controls.
• Development of an Anti-Caking Rock Dust
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop anti-caking rock dust products.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling for Underground Mines
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to expand on previous and existing work with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling using the FLUENT code to develop a modeling and predictive tool for mine ventilation.
• Assessment of Technology for Non-destructive Testing of In-situ Underground Mine Seals
  7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to assess four types of existing technology that can be applied to seals in a nondestructive manner under experimental conditions, including radio frequency sensing, ultrasonic sensing, ground penetrating radar, and tracer gas methods.
• Adapting Remote Methane Leak Detector (RMLD) to Coal Miner Rescue
  7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate the practicality and permissibility of modern laser-based technology for remotely detecting and mapping potentially explosive methane accumulations.
• Sampling and Analysis Method for Measuring Airborne Coal Dust Mass in Mixtures with Limestone (Rock) Dust
  4/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses a new sampling and analysis protocol to accurately measure the coal dust portion of airborne dust when mixed with incombustible limestone dust.
• Design and Development of a Dust Dispersion Chamber to Quantify the Dispersibility of Rock Dust
  1/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing the design and development of a dust dispersion chamber to conduct quantitative laboratory-scale dispersibility experiments as a screening tool for candidate rock dusts.
• Lasers
  9/22/2015 - Research areas
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