Mine Fire Source Discrimination Using Fire Sensors and Neural Network Analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Edwards JC ; Franks, Robert A. ; Friel, Gene F. ; Lazzara, Charles P. ; Opferman JJ
• 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 carbon monoxide 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 carbon monoxide 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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fires Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Fire Prevention Fire Safety Mining Industry Monitoring Systems Monitors Underground Mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  The Combustion Institute
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  207-211
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20020920
• Citation:
  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
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Editor(s):
  Reuss DL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a5624589d9602080186c6334a9879776d0907d780098b023073fed3f844014900c44481a083c7ee874ac552ae64b04b7fe8f2d096c027b4ab5ab8c2bd713c879
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220422/cdc_220422_DS1.pdf
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