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• Lifeline Tactile Signal Flashcards
  8/1/2011 - Training materials
  Flashcards for practicing the lifeline tactile signals with the miners at your mine.
• Coal Mine Methane: A Review of Capture and Utilization Practices with Benefits to Mining Safety and to Greenhouse Gas Reduction
  5/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article reviews the technical aspects of coal mine methane (CMM) capture in and from coal mines, the factors affecting CMM accumulations in underground coal mines, methods for capturing methane using boreholes, and borehole designs.
• Probabilistic Modeling Using Bivariate Normal Distributions for Identification of Flow and Displacement Intervals in Longwall Overburden
  1/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Gob gas ventholes capture methane emissions. This study used bivariate normal distributions to determine the conditional probabilities of depth-displacement, depth-flow percentage, depth-formation, and depth-gas content of the overburden formations.
• Noise Controls for Vibrating Screen Mechanisms
  1/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  NIOSH is currently developing noise controls for horizontal vibrating screens.
• Stochastic Modeling of Gob Gas Venthole Production Performances in Active and Completed Longwall Panels of Coal Mines
  11/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper describes a practical approach for implementing stochastic determination of gob gas ventholes production performances and for generalizing the prediction capability of deterministic models.
• Reservoir Diagnosis of Longwall Gobs Through Drawdown Tests and Decline Curve Analyses of Gob Gas Venthole Productions
  7/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  During longwall mining, fracturing and relaxation in the gob creates new and highly permeable flow paths. The production rate-pressure behavior of a gob gas venthole (GGV) drilled over a longwall panel was analyzed by using multi-rate drawdown and decl...
• Reducing Control Selection Errors Associated with Underground Bolting Equipment
  7/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The aims of this research were to determine the effectiveness of arbitrary shape coding in reducing selection error rates in a virtual analogy of roof-bolting and whether any advantages exist for mirror or place layouts for dual control situations.
• Ground and Standing Support Interaction in Tailgates of Western U.S.Longwall Mines Used in the Development of a Design Methodology Based on the Ground Reaction Curve
  7/1/2010 - Conference papers
  Instrumented test sites were installed in the tailgates of two western longwall operations; results of the support performance and ground reaction are presented in terms of developed support loads and displacements and tailgate entry convergence.
• A New Method to Calculate Permeability of Gob for Air Leakage Calculations and for Improvements in Methane Control
  6/1/2010 - Conference papers
  This study demonstrates a fractal approach to calculating permeability of gob for air leakage that allows the calculation of porosity and permeability from the size distribution of broken rock material in the gob, which can be determined from image anal...
• Evaluation of Stiffeners for Reducing Noise from Horizontal Vibrating Screens
  4/1/2010 - Conference papers
  NIOSH is developing noise controls to reduce noise generated by horizontal vibrating screens. This paper documents testing of the stiffeners.