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Mining Publication: How Smoke Hinders Escape from Coal Mine Fires
Keywords: Evacuation Fires Smoke
Original creation date: January 1992
Authors: FN Kissell, CD Litton
Peer Reviewed Journal Article - January 1992
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Min Eng 1992 Jan; 79-83
This study predicts the level of smoke that miners might meet while trying to escape a coal mine fire and describes how smoke would impede their safe escape. For this study, the authors assumed that miners exit through an escapeway adjacent to the burning entry, and that some air would leak from the burning entry to the escapeway. The following conclusions were made: A very low amount of air leakage to the escapeway can produce a critical level of visual obscurity from smoke. This shows that intake airways may be as susceptible to smoke visibility as return airways; This critical level of smoke obscurity is reached much before a critical level of carbon monoxide is reached; Small fires can cause a severe sensory irritation that further limits vision. Thus, reliable eye protection is very important. These results show that methods to guide miners through dense smoke will contribute greatly to saving lives during mine fires.
Image of publication How Smoke Hinders Escape from Coal Mine FiresPeer Reviewed Journal Article - January 1992
Download PDF Document (0.29 MB)
Min Eng 1992 Jan; 79-83
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Decision Making During a Simulated Mine Fire Escape
Emerging Technologies: Aiding Responders in Mine Emergencies and During the Escape From Smoke-Filled Passageways
Experimental and Modeling Investigation of the Effect of Ventilation on Smoke Rollback in a Mine Entry
Improvement of a Mine Fire Simulation Program � Incorporation of Smoke Rollback into MFIRE 3.0
Leadership Characteristics in Escape from Three Underground Mine Fires
Smoke, Carbon Monoxide, and Hydrogen Chloride Production from the Pyrolysis of Conveyor Belting and Brattice Cloth
Page last reviewed: July 16, 2015
Page last updated: July 16, 2015
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