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- Hazards and exposures:
- Smoke
- Document types:
- Peer reviewed journal articles
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4/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article about what happens when combustible materials ignite and burn. During the processes of ignition and flaming, other life hazards present themselves and should be included to ensure an effective overall analysis of the relevant fire hazards.
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3/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article describing experiments conducted to quantify and characterize the optical and physical properties of combustion-generated aerosols during both flaming and smoldering combustion of three materials common to underground mines.
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9/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA modified semi-empirical equation based on large-scale experiments conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was developed to quantify smoke rollback during an underground mine fire.
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1/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articlesNIOSH conducted four diesel-fuel fire experiments with specific fire heat-release rates to determine the reversal of smoke products-of-combustion from a mine fire in a mine section with the airway connectivity of an electrical Wheatstone bridge.
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1/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articlesResults of diesel fuel fire experiments were conducted to determine the critical air velocity for preventing smoke rollback. Experimental results compared well with model predictions based on a computational fluid dynamics fire dynamics simulator.
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1/1/1992 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study predicts the level of smoke that miners might meet while trying to escape a coal mine fire and describes how smoke would impede their safe escape.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program