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• Emerging Technologies: Aiding Responders in Mine Emergencies and During the Escape From Smoke-Filled Passageways
  12/1/2001 - Conference papers
  Technology and realistic training simulations have been identified for the general workforce and mine emergency responders. Laser lights and lifelines were beneficial in leading personnel to safety and out of the mine in smoke-filled passageways.
• Some Relevant Parameters for Assessing Fire Hazards of Combustible Mine Materials Using Laboratory Scale Experiments
  4/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An 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.
• Quantification of Optical and Physical Properties of Combustion-Generated Carbonaceous Aerosols (less than PM2.5) Using Analytical and Microscopic Techniques
  3/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An 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.
• Improvement of a Mine Fire Simulation Program — Incorporation of Smoke Rollback into MFIRE 3.0
  9/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A 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.
• Fire-Generated Smoke Rollback Through Crosscut from Return to Intake - Experimental and CFD Study
  6/1/2006 - Conference papers
  Two mine fire experiments conducted in NIOSH Pittsburgh's Safety Research Coal Mine demonstrated that smoke from diesel-fuel fires in a return airway can develop into a roof layer that can migrate upwind, and smoke can penetrate an intake airway.
• Smoke Reversal Interaction with Diagonal Airway - Its Elusive Character
  1/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  NIOSH 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.
• Experimental and Modeling Investigation of the Effect of Ventilation on Smoke Rollback in a Mine Entry
  1/1/2006 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Results 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.
• Experimental and Modeling Investigation of the Effect of Ventilation on Smoke Rollback in a Mine Entry
  2/1/2005 - Conference papers
  Diesel fuel fire experiments were conducted to determine the critical air velocity for preventing smoke rollback. Experimental results compared very well with model predictions based upon a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) fire dynamics simulator.
• CFD Analysis of Mine Fire Smoke Spread and Reverse Flow Conditions
  6/1/1999 - Conference papers
  A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program was used to model buoyancy induced Product-Of-Combustion (POC) spread from experimental fires in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL), safety...
• Smoke, Carbon Monoxide, and Hydrogen Chloride Production from the Pyrolysis of Conveyor Belting and Brattice Cloth
  1/1/1992 - Information Circulars
  An investigation of the combustion products of typical materials found in underground mines. The results are combined with previous analyses to estimate relative toxicities, product levels and detectability of smoldering mine combustibles.