Report of Investigations 7713: Testing of Coal-Cutter Materials for Incedivity and Radiance of Sparks

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• Personal Author:
  Blickensderfer, Robert A. ; Copeland, Mark I. ; Deardorff, Donald K. ; Kelley, John E.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The sparking and gas-igniting tendency of steels and alloys were evaluated by measuring the radiance of spark showers produced by grinding a sample on an abrasive wheel in air, the time required for a spark shower generated on an abrasive wheel to produce an ignition in an explosive gas mixture, and the energy and speed required for impacts between various materials to ignite an explosive gas mixture. Mixtures of air-methane were found quite resistant to ignition by showers of sparks. A mixture of air-9.5 pct hydrogen was used to increase the sensitivity of the tests and to thereby extend the range of materials that could be evaluated. The results of the spark-shower tests indicate that carbon steels and the alloy steels found in coal-cutter tools are among the most sparking and most incendive of any materials tested. Stainless steels, nickel alloys, and tungsten carbide are among the least sparking and least incendive. Impact tests against hard rocks such as solid quartz and sandstone, showed that high-carbon steel was more incendive in the hydrogen mixture than were the softer steels or the alloy steels found in coal cutters. Ignitions were found much less likely to occur at speeds somewhat lower than the speeds currently in use in continuous mining machines. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALRC - Albany Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008966
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-213947
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 213 947 :17 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 213 947
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7245578d0cc4f8a74502f016e125de86c72fd00b91c1e305b3480a5128c37fbca19a4a12b247e995097254cd9d675b9e1aac3c8af768867935774eeb0eeea0a9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201945/cdc_201945_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.46 MB ]