Preprototype Machine-Mounted Respirable Dust Monitor

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lilienfeld P
• Description:
  This report describes a program to develop, design, fabricate, and subject to environmental testing three prototype collection-sensing devices of an eventual mining machine-mounted, automated monitor for the measurement of the respirable fraction of coal mine dust to determine both short-term as well as average mass concentrations over typical 8-hoour shifts. The design of this instrument is based on collection by filtration and mass sensing by beta-radiation attenuation. Laboratory testing of this prototype instrument was performed over a representative range of temperature, humidity, dust concentration and composition, shock, and vibration. The results of this testing program indicated that the operation of the prototype version is compatible with these environmental conditions and that further development of this configuration into a field operational device is justified. [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)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-77
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008336
• Citation:
  For Reference Only At Bureau Libraries :77 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Performing Organization:
  Gca Corp.
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1be690187cde5e9ffedaaece179bbee31bce214e7507c7dcd578a7248cb14055f65bfbb1d2ca0723c4a2325ed049729256cade17a484b23f44368dc23bc9d2f8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/235251/cdc_235251_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.94 MB ]