A Passive Means to Detect Hot Trolley Insulators [manuscript]

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• Personal Author:
  Yenchek, M. R. ; Hudson, A. J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Faulty insulators on mine trolley/track haulageways may allow the flow of leakage currents into the mine roof and ultimately result in combustion of the local roof material. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL), has devised a passive means to detect overheating insulators on direct current systems. The detector consists of a spring-loaded cartridge that ejects a reflective streamer of white Teflon tape when subjected to elevated temperatures. The cartridge assembly can be easily installed over the outer metallic shell of an existing trolley line insulator. If an insulator overheats due to ground leakage currents, the visible streamer alerts mine personnel traveling on the haulageway.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Preprint No. 98-16, Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 1998 Mar; :1-4
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5f95449b843faafbd749ac09380bc492767e9089fb1020eac06cc81d3c7e61c5bbe93bca8f478602559891f72e26bbdd4f5ac10b23e4843d916d40f2e97a69e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9173/cdc_9173_DS1.pdf
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