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• Emerging Technologies: Aiding Responders in Mine Emergencies and During the Escape From Smoke-Filled Passageways
  12/1/2001 - Conference papers
  Technology and realistic training simulations have been identified for the general workforce and mine emergency responders. Laser lights and lifelines were beneficial in leading personnel to safety and out of the mine in smoke-filled passageways.
• Fire-Generated Smoke Rollback Through Crosscut from Return to Intake - Experimental and CFD Study
  6/1/2006 - Conference papers
  Two mine fire experiments conducted in NIOSH Pittsburgh's Safety Research Coal Mine demonstrated that smoke from diesel-fuel fires in a return airway can develop into a roof layer that can migrate upwind, and smoke can penetrate an intake airway.
• Experimental and Modeling Investigation of the Effect of Ventilation on Smoke Rollback in a Mine Entry
  2/1/2005 - Conference papers
  Diesel fuel fire experiments were conducted to determine the critical air velocity for preventing smoke rollback. Experimental results compared very well with model predictions based upon a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) fire dynamics simulator.
• CFD Analysis of Mine Fire Smoke Spread and Reverse Flow Conditions
  6/1/1999 - Conference papers
  A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program was used to model buoyancy induced Product-Of-Combustion (POC) spread from experimental fires in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL), safety...