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• Communication and Hazard Monitoring in Bleeders and Remote Workings
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to extend communication and hazard monitoring into bleeders or other remote workings in an active underground coal mine.
• 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.
• A Wearable Multivariable Sensor for NO2 and CO Detection
  5/23/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design composite sensing materials to develop a sensor that is sensitive to carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide at the desired concentrations but is not affected by the interferences present in 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.
• Effects of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil on Emissions of Aerosols and Gases from Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Older Technology Engines
  4/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH describes a study conducted to assess the potential of hydrotreated vegetable oil renewable diesel (HVORD) as a control strategy to reduce exposure of workers to diesel aerosols and gases.
• Lasers
  9/22/2015 - Research areas
  Lasers Topic Page
• Inertization Technologies
  9/22/2015 - Research areas
  Inertization Technologies Topic Page
• Blasting and Explosives
  9/18/2015 - Catalogs and indexes, Research areas
  NIOSH Mining Program page on blasting and explosives.
• CFD Modeling of Methane Distribution at a Continuous Miner Face With Various Curtain Setback Distances
  7/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A report focused on validating a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models using full-scale ventilation gallery data that assessed how curtain setback distance impacted airflow patterns and methane distributions at an empty mining face.