Implications of Recent NIOSH Tracer Gas Studies on Bleeder and Gob Gas Ventilation Design

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• Personal Author:
  Mucho, T. P. ; Diamond, W. P. ; Garcia, F. ; Byars, J. D. ; Cario, S. L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been conducting research at a Pittsburgh Coalbed longwall mine to evaluate and optimize bleeder ventilation and gob gas venthole longwall methane control systems. Gas flow into these two methane control systems was investigated using a combination of Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) tracer gas studies and gob venthole pressure monitoring experiments. The insights gained from this research has facilitated the development of along wall subsided strata methane control system conceptual model. This model provides the basis for design suggestions to increase the efficiency of the gob gas venthole system to permit the bleeder ventilation system to become a "safety net" for methane control.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  2000 SME Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 28 - March 1, 2000. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., Preprint 00-08, 2000 Feb; :1-17
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021020
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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