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• Mechanisms of Coal Dust Explosions and Their Prevention
  4/8/2019 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to explore when and how a secondary dust explosion initates and propagates.
• Medium Frequency Radio System Modifications for Refuge Chamber Situational Awareness
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to modify medium frequency radio systems to improve refuge chamber situational awareness in an underground coal mine.
• Metering and Distribution Improvements to Increase the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Rock Dusters
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop and implement a prototype rock duster that will use sensing technology to determine the amount of coal dust in the mine atmosphere and distribute an appropriate amount of rock dust to effectively inert the coal dust present.
• Method for Improving Ventilation & Gas Monitoring with an Advanced Fiber Optic Based Mine-Wide Monitoring System
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to create an advanced mine-wide distributed monitoring system utilizing a low power intrinsically safe fiber optic backbone for improving ventilation and gas and temperature monitoring in underground mines.
• Methods to De-Energize Batteries
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop new technologies for emergency de-energizing of batteries, and to demonstrate prototype systems designed for application in a battery system currently employed in mining operations.
• Mine Communications Engineering and Compatibility Guidelines
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to ensure that the limited useful spectrum is used efficiently, health and safety hazards are not introduced, and new systems do not interfere with each other or with older systems already in place.
• Mine Escape Vehicle Concept Investigation
  11/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to provide a design for a Mine Escape Vehicle to facilitate rapid escape of personnel from an underground mine in an emergency. The design for the vehicle will include components for vehicle platform, life support, navigation, and communication.
• Mine Escape Vehicle Technology Retrofit Demonstration
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design the integration of appropriate Mine Escape Vehicle (MEV) technology into either an existing mantrip being refurbished or a new mantrip under construction.
• Mine Hearing and Communication Safety System
  6/13/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  Triton Systems proposes to develop a new product—“MineEar”—which would offer superior awareness, communication, and hearing protection through noise attenuation, occlusion effect reduction technology, and advanced noise reduction.
• Mine Safety Data Analytics Engine (MSDAE)
  2/27/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Innovative Wireless Technologies, Inc., to address work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) risk reduction using the recent innovative intervention of occupational exoskeletons.