Results 1 - 10 of 20

• 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.
• 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.
• Numerical Study on Effects of Coal Properties on Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
  11/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was conducted to model effects of coal properties on the potential for spontaneous heating in longwall gob (mined-out) areas.
• Simulation of Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Area with a Bleederless Ventilation System
  8/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  To provide insights for the optimization of bleederless ventilation systems for U.S. underground coal mines, a computational fluid dynamics study was conducted to model spontaneous heating in longwall gob areas using a bleederless ventilation system.
• Effects of Ventilation and Gob Characteristics on Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
  6/1/2008 - Conference papers
  The results of field tests to understand how ventilation and gob characteristics affect the spontaneous heating process causing spontaneous combustion fires in longwall or worked-out gob areas are presented.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
  12/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations were conducted to investigate the spontaneous heating of coals in longwall gob areas with different apparent activation energies and reaction surface areas. The results are reported in this paper.
• Spontaneous Combustion
  4/7/2017 - Catalogs and indexes, Research areas
  OMSHR topic page on spontaneous combustion.
• CFD modelling of sampling locations for early detection of spontaneous combustion in long-wall gob areas
  1/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling was conducted to optimize gas sampling locations for the early detection of spontaneous heating in longwall gob areas.