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• NIOSH Mining Webinar: Improvement of Longwall Ventilation
  5/12/2017 - Calls for participation
  Plan to attend this important webinar on longwall ventilation and how to improve conditions for miners, Sept. 21, 2017.
• Ventilation to Control Contaminants in Metal/NonMetal Mining Operations
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to deliver practices, methodologies, and strategies to the industry to improve ventilation effectiveness in underground metal/nonmetal (M/NM) operations to increase control of airborne contaminants in deep mines.
• Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) Laboratory
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to utilize the capabilities of the Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) Laboratory to test underground roof support and ventilation structures and apply these results to engineer safer products and applications.
• Improved Ventilation Effectiveness in Underground Coal Mines
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to enhance worker safety by decreasing the likelihood of explosions that are produced by hazardous underground methane concentrations.
• Continuous Monitoring of Airflow and Methane in Coal Mines
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop guidelines to assess ventilation effectiveness in underground coal mines using improved sampling protocols and defining optimal instrument locations for continuous-reading airflow and methane monitors.
• New Improvements to MFIRE to Enhance Fire Modeling Capabilities
  6/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing NIOSH's mine fire simulation program, MFIRE, which is used as a standard for assessing and predicting the impact of a fire on the mine ventilation system and the spread of fire contaminants in coal and metal/nonmetal mines.
• Modeling Carbon Monoxide Spread in Underground Mine Fires
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study that describes the computer modeling of how carbon monoxide moves through an underground mine ventilation network during a fire event.
• Safety Aspects of Mine Ventilation Through Technical Development and Training
  4/29/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to investigate safety aspects of mine ventilation through technical development and training.
• Evaluation of Detection and Response Times of Fire Sensors Using an Atmospheric Monitoring System
  3/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH describes a series of full-scale experiments that evaluated an atmospheric monitoring system for fire detection in other areas of a coal mine.
• A Study of Leakage Rates Through Mine Seals in Underground Coal Mines
  1/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article detailing the results of a study on leakage rates of coal bed gas through underground coal mine seals at a western U.S. underground coal mine.