Application of the Diesel Discriminating Fire Sensor

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• Personal Author:
  Litton, Charles D. ; Vinson, Robert P.
• Description:
  A novel detector which can distinguish fire smoke from diesel particulates was tested to determine its response to respirable dusts in the concentration range of 0 to 7 mg/m3. The test results indicated that the detector response was linear over this dust concentration range for respirable coal dusts and nonlinear for respirable rock dust. The response to respirable coal dust was also found to vary directly with the volatile fraction of the coal dust. Based upon these results, the use of this detector as a continuous monitor of respirable dust in underground coal mines has significant potential. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Monitors Respirable-dust Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0780319931
• ISSN:
  0197-2618
• Publisher:
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• 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
• Volume:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033085
• Citation:
  IAS '94: Conference Record of the 1994 IEEE Industry Applications Conference: Twenty-Ninth IAS Annual Meeting, October 2-5, 1994, Denver, Colorado. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1994 Oct; 3:2121-2125
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  IAS '94: Conference Record of the 1994 IEEE Industry Applications Conference: Twenty-Ninth IAS Annual Meeting, October 2-5, 1994, Denver, Colorado
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:da4fb5983993182c1700809c1b716e8ed52c4b43d3e8e393c97e89e269083c31713e71d597864f35adc6baf19e0803624b2df07882b60247416262d301f8784a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226884/cdc_226884_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 287.42 KB ]