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• Benchmarking Longwall Dust Control Technology and Practices
  9/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Results from the NIOSH underground dust surveys and current longwall dust control technology and operating practices are discussed.
• Field Evaluation of Air-blocking Shelf for Dust Control on Blasthole Drills
  3/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Field tests confirm that an air-blocking shelf installed in the inside perimeter of a blasthole drill shroud substantially improves dust control. This modification reduced respirable dust by 66%–81% in the immediate vicinity of the shroud...
• Equivalency of a Personal Dust Monitor to the Current United States Coal Mine Respirable Dust Sampler
  1/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The work presented in this paper focuses on the relationship between the PDM and respirable dust concentrations currently measured by a coal mine dust personal sampler unit utilizing a 10 mm Dorr Oliver nylon cyclone.
• Relationship Between Elemental Carbon, Total Carbon, and Diesel Particulate Matter in Several Underground Metal/nonmetal Mines
  2/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  To evaluate how elemental carbon (EC), a surrogate of diesel particulate matter (DPM), predicts DPM, measurements of total carbon (TC) and EC were taken away from potential interferences in four underground metal/nonmetal mines during production.
• Evaluation of the SKC® DPM Cassette for Monitoring Diesel Particulate Matter in Coal Mines
  12/1/2004 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A commercial version of the BOM impactor, called the DPM Cassette, was recently introduced by SKC®. Tests were conducted to evaluate the performance of the DPM Cassette for measuring diesel-source elemental carbon in the presence of coal dust.
• Quantifying Elemental and Organic Carbon in Diesel Particulate Matter by Mid-infrared Spectrometry
  9/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing a method for quantifying airborne organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) within aerosolized diesel particulate matter (DPM).
• A Novel Sampling Cassette for Field-based Analysis of Respirable Crystalline Silica
  3/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study evaluating a novel cassette designed to facilitate field-based, direct-on-filter analysis of RCS using transmission FTIR spectroscopy.
• A Predictive Model for Elemental Carbon, Organic Carbon and Total Carbon Based on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Measurements of Filter-collected Diesel Particulate Matter
  6/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A 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.
• Testing a Revised Inlet for the Personal Dust Monitor
  5/10/2019 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing dust collection equivalency testing of a new PDM air inlet against the original cap-mounted inlet design.
• Laboratory Comparison of New High Flow Rate Respirable Size-Selective Sampler
  12/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article comparing three performance evaluations of the GK4.162 high flow rate respirable size-selective sampler.