Medium-Frequency Propagation in Coal Mines

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• Personal Author:
  Sacks, H. Kenneth ; Chufo, Robert L.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines. Pittsburgh Mining and Safety Research Center
• Description:
  Medium-frequency (MF) waves can propagate in a coal seam, bounded above and below by conducting rock, in an approximate transverse electro-magnetic (TEM) transmission-line mode with the electric field vertical and the magnetic field horizontal. The theory of this coal seam mode is applied to recent MF data for a number of mines in order to classify the propagation characteristic of the mines in a simple way. When conductors such as rails, trolleylines, or power cables are present in the vicinity of the measurement path, it is found that the magnetic field versus range plots have two distinct regions with very different slopes. This effect is attributed to coupling of the cylindrically spreading coal seam mode to a low-attenuation conductor guided mode. As a result, voice communications range between mobile transmitters can extend several thousand meters. The use of MF for mine communications is discussed.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  Proceedings of the Fourth WVU Conference on Coal Mine Electrotechnology, August 2-4, 1978, Morgantown, West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, 1978 Aug; :27.1-27.12
• Document Type:
  Text
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032395
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf1ca0d1221a45dd564e24204b1f348238fd0a97f630602a4256114d8977803ea1437a6f6efb13a4241e9f1ea788e704af6caf352e81f447c35b24b60bae79e0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9088/cdc_9088_DS1.pdf
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