Model of coal dust explosion suppression by rock dust entrainment

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• Personal Author:
  Edwards, John C. ; Ford, Kathleen M.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  "The Bureau of Mines developed a mathematical model to calculate the aerodynamically induced lifting of coal and rock dust from a composite deposition on a mine entry floor and the subsequent transport of the dust ahead of the propagating combustion zone of a coal dust explosion. For a series of experimental explosibility tests approximated by combustion zones that expand at a constant flame velocity, the mass fraction of airborne rock dust ahead of the flame front, as well as the mass fraction overtaken by the combustion zone, was calculated. A statistical analysis of the theoretical results demonstrated with a high level of confidence that the propagating and nonpropagating test samples belonged to separate populations. This analysis was further supported by an independent model of the average temperature over the combustion zone." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 10006286
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10006286
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c335248c590b6ad42e0bad03b0cda62d2264c0fc6811cfbf2d70d4779ad4a9048f70b09550b8070ba793dfeac51a1057a8cc7362b9a28eea31b0afe80ba2bea4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10608/cdc_10608_DS1.pdf
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