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• A New Methane Control and Prediction Software Suite for Longwall Mines
  9/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper presents technical and application aspects of a new software suite, MCP (Methane Control and Prediction), developed for addressing some of the methane and methane control issues in longwall coal mines.
• 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.
• 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...
• Development of Multiple Regression Functions for Performance Prediction of Gob Gas Ventholes for Sealed and Active Longwall Mines
  2/1/2010 - Conference papers
  A discussion of the NIOSH-developed software suite for methane control and prediction (MCP) based on an artificial neural network (ANN) is presented in this paper.
• Historical Development of Technologies for Controlling Methane in Underground Coal Mines
  1/1/2010 - Conference papers
  This paper discusses several milestone events that show the progress of methane control research in underground coal mines.
• NIOSH Research for Monitoring and Controlling Methane at U.S. Underground Coal Mining Operations
  11/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This work by NIOSH has modelled the impacts of borehole pattern and design and the effects of increasing face length on gob gas venthole performance.
• Coal Bed Discontinuity Effects on the Production of Degasification Boreholes and on Emissions During Longwall Mining
  10/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This study presents a numerical investigation of geological discontinues in the coalbed using reservoir simulations of the effects of partings and permeability facies and lithotype changes on the production performances of vertical and horizontal degasi...
• Advances in Grid-Based Numerical Modeling Techniques for Improving Gas Management in Coal Mines
  6/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This paper summarizes the modeling efforts conducted by NIOSH in the U.S. and CSIRO in Australia to address various gas management issues encountered in longwall mines using the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical reservoir m...
• Artificial Neural Networks to Determine Ventilation Emissions and Optimum Degasification Strategies for Longwall Mines
  6/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This study proposes a principle component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural network (ANN) approach to predict the ventilation methane emission rates of U.S. longwall mines and the optimum combination of degasification boreholes based on the given cha...