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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to enhance worker safety by decreasing the likelihood of explosions that are produced by hazardous underground methane concentrations.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to make recommendations and guide policy or program decisions regarding the safety of batteries used in underground coal mines.
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7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to simulate the development and evolution of natural gas (NG) explosions in mine tunnels.
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7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA 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.
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7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to evaluate LiDAR sensing technology to estimate dispersion distances of float coal dust and assess adequacies of rock dust coverage over large areas.
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7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA capacity-building contract to advance the body of knowledge in mine fires through modeling and application to ensure improved controls.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop anti-caking rock dust products.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA capacity-building contract to expand on previous and existing work with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling using the FLUENT code to develop a modeling and predictive tool for mine ventilation.
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7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA 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.
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7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to evaluate the practicality and permissibility of modern laser-based technology for remotely detecting and mapping potentially explosive methane accumulations.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program