Ventilation Monitoring and Control in Mines

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• Personal Author:
  Pritchard C ; Shriwas M
• Description:
  Ventilation monitoring and control in mines are becoming an integral part of day-to-day activity for maintaining health and safety of miners. The authors evaluate potential real-time monitoring solutions for detecting and reducing diesel particulate matter, mine fires, and dust in situ, and examined the state-of-the-art use of ventilation monitoring and control in underground mines for detecting and reducing air contaminants to acceptable regulatory limit. Authors review relevant documents, including research papers, trade publications, and manufacturers' website-based information, to identify research gaps. The authors also evaluate contemporary sensors (airflow, gas, dust, silica), control system and software technologies, data transport systems, Industrial Internet of Things, ventilation network simulators, and control devices to identify potential health and safety research gaps. In this study, examples of some mines from Canada, Australia, and the USA are included where ventilation monitoring and controls have been applied. Overall, this review identifies multiple challenges and research gaps in applying mine monitoring and control systems that could be the focus of future research, offering potential improvements to miner safety and health and financial benefits. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Control Diesel Exhaust Mine Fires Mining Industry Monitoring Monitoring Systems Particulates Respirable Dust Sensor Sensors
• ISSN:
  2524-3462
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068385
• Citation:
  Min Metall Explor 2020 Aug; 37(4):1015-1021
• Contact Point Address:
  Mahesh Shriwas, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
• Email:
  mshriwas@alaska.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
• End Date:
  20140831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2ee1af04c2b97d0c02ef4fa38808e3bf5e4b7a5c70398f366ce2fd0695054333fb790ead63e034ed0ba113f8c3ae5677f87227586deb8e1fb60637a04c283eb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230545/cdc_230545_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 301.25 KB ]