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2/17/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA 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.
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2/17/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA 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.
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2/14/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract with the University of Illinois to research wearable respirable dust monitor prototypes.
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3/25/2022 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract with Virginia Tech University to research respirable crystalline silica characteristics in coal mine dust samples and in samples representative of major dust sources.
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1/1/2022 - Information CircularsThis report details how to implement field-based monitoring for respirable crystalline silica using portable Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).
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9/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article describing a method for quantifying airborne organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) within aerosolized diesel particulate matter (DPM).
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8/16/2021 - Information CircularsRead about the latest best practices for dust control in coal mining.
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3/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study evaluating a novel cassette designed to facilitate field-based, direct-on-filter analysis of RCS using transmission FTIR spectroscopy.
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6/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study suggesting that laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy measurements coupled with partial least squares modeling results could be a method for rapidly analyzing diesel particulate matter concentrations.
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2/3/2020 - Technology NewsLearn how the commercially available ESPnano particle sampler is used worldwide for both research and workplace assessments of airborne hazards.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program