Methane emissions from four working places in the Beckley mine, Raleigh County, W. Va.

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• Personal Author:
  Irani, Meherwan C. ; Jeran, Paul W. ; Lawhead, David H.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines ; Eastern Associated Coal Corp.
• Description:
  "he Beckley Mine is one of five new mines in a heretofore unmined portion of the Beckley coalbed. The remoteness of these new mines from prior mining and their greater overburden preclude applying methane emission experience obtained in the old mines. Four sections of the Beckley Mine were monitored. The data gathered show that variations in methane emission cannot be explained by variations in coal production. Although overburdens varied by as much as 30 pct, no correlation with methane emissions could be determined. The rib emissions increase with increased length of rib from a section advancing into virgin coal and do not decline over a prolonged idle period (32 days) whereas some decline has been measured for a section not mining into virgin coal. The indication is that degasification prior to mining will reduce the hazard of methane emissions in this area of the Beckley coalbed." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 10000602
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia ; Raleigh County (WV) ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10000602
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:beb926b86669762dfa148fba02feaaee1f2eccf952c2350ce635ba79b25bceedc67733eae181b32a194a5186da244f00b18c67bc8903622b3cb9af7bd26d27e1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9254/cdc_9254_DS1.pdf
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