Development of a Remote Coal Dust Deposition Rate Monitor

Details

• Personal Author:
  Dutta PK ; Hatfield RW ; Runstadler PW Jr. ; Tenenbaum RR
• Description:
  This report describes the design, development, and manufacture of a monitoring system to continuously monitor the buildup of float coal dust and rock dusting materials in coal mine workings. A readout and special switch module can monitor up to 10 coal dust sensors, displaying the dust load directly in milligrams per square centimeter with a sensitivity of 0.5 Mg/cm2. The readout is a microprocessor-based unit, MSHA approved, and is rugged, portable, accurate, and easy to use and read. The sensors collect dust on a disk and measure the dust loading using vibrating wire technology. Ten dust sensors and two readout and switch station units were built, performance tested, and calibrated. The hardware was delivered to the Bureau of Mines for further evaluation and in-mine testing. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Open File Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Final Contract Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-123
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10004580
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-199784
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB/85-199784 :123 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Performing Organization:
  Creare Products, Inc.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB/85-199784
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9719cf02d4fdf1facbd662fd9474a0d7d7804c555737f01f2b4beea663bf8903513c8d9dac523582339a17fd2388882a5bdcd89bc18217391aa6fed956525c61
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/234668/cdc_234668_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.27 MB ]