Demonstration of Remote Mine Seal Construction

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• Personal Author:
  Crayne LM ; Glogowski P ; Gray, Thomas A. ; Trevits, Michael A.
• Description:
  Mine seals can be remotely constructed in underground coal mines, through vertical boreholes, when direct access to a fire is impossible or considered to be too dangerous. This method has great merit because boreholes can be drilled to specific mine areas and seals can be positioned close to a fire zone. The technology however, can be largely ineffective if the constructed seals do not provide effective barriers to airflow or cannot be used to impound water and other inert materials. Unfortunately, no viable alternatives exist to sealing the entire mine at the ground surface. Full-scale remote mine seal construction research is being conducted at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Lake Lynn Laboratory. Under this effort, Howard Concrete Pumping Co. and GAI Consultants, Inc., have joined forces to evaluate a potentially significant improvement to the current state of the art. This paper describes the development of novel technology for remote mine seal construction, evaluation of the materials used, construction practice, and followup testing. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Mine-fires Mine-seals Safety-research Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• 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:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024571
• Citation:
  2004 SME Annual Meeting, Feb 23-25, Denver, Colorado, preprint 04-194. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2004 Feb; :1-8
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  2004 SME Annual Meeting, Feb 23-25, Denver, Colorado, preprint 04-194
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e948b95350b213030fe1d3828d5f8e645571e4fd57225ab5a7f1c51933cc3212c6aaffd9ead18c5a2de0dbd14b5c1305de70852694388183b9213a0b685c03ae
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220780/cdc_220780_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.91 MB ]