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3/31/2017 - Research projectsA project to understand the dust generation and transport processes and propose ventilation designs to minimize the dust at mineral processing plants using CFD models.
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12/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis article by NIOSH discusses a prototype flooded-bed scrubber that was evaluated for float coal dust control in the return of a continuous miner section.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to deliver practices, methodologies, and strategies to the industry to improve ventilation effectiveness in underground metal/nonmetal (M/NM) operations to increase control of airborne contaminants in deep mines.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to develop and implement effective interventions to control diesel particulate matter, dust, and other respirable contaminants generated and liberated in the metal/nonmetal mining industry.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to utilize the capabilities of the Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) Laboratory to test underground roof support and ventilation structures and apply these results to engineer safer products and applications.
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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 develop guidelines to assess ventilation effectiveness in underground coal mines using improved sampling protocols and defining optimal instrument locations for continuous-reading airflow and methane monitors.
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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA capacity-building contract to develop a method to remotely characterize underground mine ventilation control by multiple tracer gases.
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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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6/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article describing NIOSH's mine fire simulation program, MFIRE, which is used as a standard for assessing and predicting the impact of a fire on the mine ventilation system and the spread of fire contaminants in coal and metal/nonmetal mines.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program