Technology News 478: Apparatus for Measuring the Gas Content of Coal or Rock Core Samples

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  When coalbeds and many other rock types containing organic matter are heated during burial, methane gas is formed as a byproduct. Methane can cause explosions in underground mines that can lead to fatalities and/or injuries to mine workers. Our objective is to design an apparatus that advances the state of the art in gas content testing equipment. It is also desirable for the new design to successfully perform gas content determinations of multiple chemical species from a rock sample. The Portable Modified Direct Method Testing Apparatus was designed, built, and developed by researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s Pittsburgh Research Laboratory. This new design is easier to use, rugged, compact, lightweight, reliable, and relatively inexpensive, yet provides more accurate gas content data. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Methane Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mine-gases; Mine-workers; Equipment-design; Methanes; Sampling-equipment
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, TN 478, 1999 Aug; :1-2
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000656
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methane (CAS RN 74-82-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96dae556fd3b800fb7f835eebcfbd75c0e9ae4742b1cbe25c9c90685b57c815c00c11d917f113c6ae9c431b00a62cf7cb0076223171a8c1bbfdf09088b9a58e7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9740/cdc_9740_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 40.56 KB ]