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Mine Fire Source Discrimination Using Fire Sensors and Neural Network Analysis
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2000
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Source: Combustion Fundamentals and Applications--Proceedings of the 2000 Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana. Pittsburgh, PA: The Combustion Institute, 2000 Apr; :207-211
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Description:Fire experiments were conducted in the Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, with coal, diesel-fuel, electrical-cable, conveyor-belt, and metal-cutting fire sources to determine the response of fire sensors to products-of-combustion (POC). Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) and smoke fire sensors demonstrated an earlier fire detection capability than a CO sensor. This capability was of particular significance for a conveyor-belt fire in which the optical visibility was reduced to 1.52 m with an increase in CO of less than 2 ppm at a distance of 148 m from the fire. Application of a neural-network program to the sensor responses from each type of fire source resulted in correct classifications of coal, diesel-fuel, cable, belt, and metal-cutting combustion with a mean of 96% of the test data correctly classified.
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