Automated Continuous Miner Preliminary Design

Details

• Personal Author:
  Baldwin AN ; McMahon KC ; Baldwin AN ; McMahon KC
• Description:
  As the demand for energy places an ever-increasing pressure on the coal mining industry to produce more coal, methods for underground mining that will increase productivity with a concurrent increase in safety are being sought. Removing the machine operator from his station on the continuous miner and placing him at a safer location behind the machine while retaining control functions by way of an umbilical cable or a radio link is an important first step. The purpose of this investigation was to provide the first step to total automation of the entire mining cycle and to provide hands-off control of the mining machine for a specific number of sump shear cycles. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automation Coal Coal Mining Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining industry; Coal mining; Underground mining; Industrial processes; Environmental technology; Automation; Machine operators; Safety measures; Safety practices; Continuous mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Open File Report ; Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report ; Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-152
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10001171
• Citation:
  For Reference Only At Bureau Libraries 1975; :1-152
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Performing Organization:
  FMC Corp.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ed1f4ee5e49d6a40fbc70370ea56f59b9bc2a53aa3178d3f65f91ef53b84cfeddc79109661c999cffdb95307e8ef3d8fafe396a138e705a944f9ab556d784695
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/234423/cdc_234423_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.85 MB ]