Report of Investigations 9284: Primary Gas Toxicities and Smoke Particle Characteristics During Combustion of Mine Ventilation Ducts: Development of a Test Parameter

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• Journal Article:
  MISSING
• Personal Author:
  De Rosa, Maria L. ; Litton, Charles D.
• Description:
  The U.S. Bureau of Mines performed experiments to determine if the primary gas toxicities evolved during the early (approximately 300 deg c) and later (> or = to 400 deg c) combustion stages of chlorinated polyester-reinforced mine ventilation ducts could be predicted by a smoke particle characteristic, for the development of a test parameter. The experiments were conducted in an approximately 20-l furnace, at 14-min durations at set furnace temperatures of 250 deg and 1,000 deg c, with an airflow through the furnace of 10 l/min. The variables studied, as a function of time, were the hydrogen chloride (hcl), carbon monoxide (co), carbon dioxide (co2) and oxygen (o2) concentrations, furnace temperatures, the sample mass weight loss, the average smoke particle diameter (dg) and average number and concentration (no), and the product of the average smoke particle diameter and concentration (dgno). Results show that the inverse of the smoke particle diameter- concentration product (l/dgno) correlates directly and significantly with the primary gas toxicities evolved during both early (hcl) and later (co) stages of combustion. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Explosions Gas Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Ventilation
• Source:
  MISSING :11 pages
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10007353
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5999b5da2fe7487547e935dc7cdd50eb1a4a45424b39f23baaa405bb51271b92bd5a025c28b16f0391dafcfda8936cabe931ccd5599e55431b192421aa8acf5f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10640/cdc_10640_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 365.23 KB ]