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• MFIRE
  7/24/2020 - PC software
  Try the newly rewritten version of the MFIRE software program to model fire and contaminant spread in underground mines.
• Technology News 549 - MFIRE 3.0 - NIOSH Brings MFIRE into 21st Century
  3/1/2012 - Technology News
  NIOSH completed a major redesign of MFIRE and replaced its outdated programming language with an object-oriented C++ approach. The program was split into a front-end with a simple graphical-user-interface (GUI), and the MFIRE “engine” back-end.
• Flammability of Wider Conveyor Belts Using Large-scale Fire Tests
  1/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes the results of recent experiments comparing results from using the BELT and the large-scale tests for six different belts.
• Impact of Air Velocity on the Detection of Fires in Conveyor Belt Haulageways
  5/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses the impact of ventilation airflow on alarm times of the smoke detectors and video cameras, CO levels, smoke optical densities and smoke obscuration, total smoke mass concentrations, and fire heat release rates.
• In-Mine Study of High-Expansion Firefighting Foam
  1/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes the production of high-expansion firefighting foam and discusses the in-mine experimental tests and results.
• The Effect of Ventilation on Spontaneous Heating of Coal
  1/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Study results of the role of various ventilation rates in the spontaneous heating of coal in underground mines found that there is an optimum ventilation flow to produce the maximum rate of temperature rise at the critical ambient temperature.
• Reducing the Fire and Explosion Hazards of Flame-Cutting and Welding in Underground Coal Mines
  6/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper provides a summary of work done in a study on fires and explosions in underground U.S. coal mines that were caused by flame cutting and welding operations to determine the root causes of these types of fires and explosions.
• Effect of Longwall Face Advance on Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
  3/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  In this paper, Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling of the effect of longwall face advance on the spontaneous heating of coals in a two-panel gob area using a bleeder ventilation system is presented.
• NIOSH Mine Fire Research in the United States
  11/1/2009 - Conference papers
  This paper presents a summary of some of the mine fire research and provides an overview of the next phase of the NIOSH mine fire research program.
• CFD Modeling of Spontaneous Heating in a Large-Scale Coal Chamber
  7/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses a study in which a three-dimensional CFD modeling of spontaneous heating of coal, based on the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) large-scale coal chamber tests, was conducted.