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• Improved Float Dust Controls in Underground Coal Mines
  3/27/2023 - Research projects
  A project to reduce the risks associated with accumulations of combustible and explosive materials.
• Respirable Coal Mine Dust: Mineral Content Sources, Monitoring and Control, and Building Capacity to Protect Miner Health
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract with Virginia Tech University to better understand, control, and monitor mineral content in respirable coal mine dust.
• Respirable Coal Mine Dust (RCMD) Research: Characterization, Deposition, Monitoring, and Mitigation of RCMD and Capacity Building for Mine Health and Safety
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to perform respirable coal mine dust research, including characterization, deposition, monitoring, and mitigation of respirable coal mine dust.
• Reduction or Elimination of Coal Mining Related Respirable Dust Toxicity by Selection and Proper Application of Dust Control Additives
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Penn State University to review and study various chemical dust control additives that have been proposed in the literature for reduction or elimination of dust toxicity.
• PDM3700-Compatible Filter Module Usable with Portable/Field-deployable Silica Monitoring Instruments
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Thermo Fisher to develop a filter module that can be used with the PDM3700, maintaining its functionality of aerosol collection and mass measurement, and portable FTIRs that can be used for field-deployable silica monitoring.
• Next Generation Continuous Personal Dust Monitor (CPDM)
  2/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Thermo Fisher Scientific to develop a prototype of a next-generation continuous personal dust monitor (CPDM).
• Improved Longwall Automation by Utilizing Sensors to Detect the Rock Coal Interface
  2/23/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Komatsu's Joy Global Underground Mining to investigate a technology or combination of technologies that will improve the ability to understand the location of the rock-coal interface on a longwall face.
• Filter Media and Holder Compatible with Personal Dust Monitor and End-of-Shift Crystalline Silica Quantification by Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy
  2/22/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Desert Research Institute to find alternative filter media and redesign the filter holder for the continuous personal dust monitorto make the filter compatible with end-of-shift respirable crystalline silica quantification.
• Development of a Personal Real-Time Respirable Coal Dust and Respirable Silica Dust Monitoring Instrument Based on Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
  2/17/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with the University of Nevada, Reno, to develop a personal real-time respirable coal dust and respirable silica dust monitoring instrument based on photoacoustic spectroscopy.
• Characterization of Submicron-/Nano-scale Coal Dusts and Their Effects on Miners' Pneumoconiosis and Lung Cancer for Underground Coal Mines
  2/17/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Pennsylvania State University to investigate the characterization of submicron-/nano-scale coal dusts and their effects on miners’ pneumoconiosis and lung cancer for underground coal mines.