An Experimental Ventilation Control System

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• Personal Author:
  Aldridge, M. Dayne ; Nutter RS
• Description:
  A description is given of an experimental ventilation control system designed, built, and tested by WVU under United States Bureau of Mines sponsorship. A description is given of the control system used and the mine-wide microcomputer-based ventilation monitoring system used with it. Test results of experiments conducted with this system at Eastern Associated Coal Corporation's Federal No. 2 underground coal mines are presented. In addition, a brief description is given of a new microprocessor based system presently being tested. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Mine-rescue Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Monitors Underground-mining Ventilation-systems
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0895202719
• Publisher:
  American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  230-238
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028077
• Citation:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV. P Mousset-Jones, ed., New York: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc., 1980 Oct; :230-238
• Editor(s):
  Mousset-Jones P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:68a1bd5590e33bf50b0be0df13faf2b0a08e482f3719e21784951bad8e5820a6d7e7e977346d43c7b85a4a9bea0768bcdaf98728f8f595c49ec64fd926efd4e3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221079/cdc_221079_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.33 MB ]