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7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to establish guidelines for mine seal design under static and dynamic loading conditions from gas and/or dust explosions within sealed areas.
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7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to assess four types of existing technology that can be applied to seals in a nondestructive manner under experimental conditions, including radio frequency sensing, ultrasonic sensing, ground penetrating radar, and tracer gas methods.
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4/29/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA capacity-building contract to research using booster fans in deep coal mines in the western U.S., where coal seams can have over 3,000 ft of overburden causing ventilation and ground control problems.
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2/21/2016 - Conference proceedings, Peer reviewed journal articlesThis publication describes the results from testing a new dry scrubber that's designed to dramatically cut the levels of coal and quartz (silica) dust in underground coal mines.
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2/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article about the design and testing of a new environmentally controlled primary crusher operator booth at a granite quarry near Wausau, WI.
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1/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article detailing the results of a study on leakage rates of coal bed gas through underground coal mine seals at a western U.S. underground coal mine.
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9/22/2015 - Research areasInertization Technologies Topic Page
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7/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA report focused on validating a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models using full-scale ventilation gallery data that assessed how curtain setback distance impacted airflow patterns and methane distributions at an empty mining face.
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7/22/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to develop a spray-applied polyurea coating system that would upgrade existing 20-psi approved mine seals to withstand blast pressures greater than 60 psi.
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5/28/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA contract to transfer protective structure design technology from the defense establishment to the design and construction of seals in the coal industry.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program