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Mining Contract: Investigation of Reduced Order Fire Modeling for Improved Safety and Response in Underground Coal Mines
Keywords: Education and training Fire and explosion prevention
This page is archived for historical purposes and is no longer being maintained or updated.
Contract #
200-2014-59669Start Date
9/1/2014End Date
8/31/2019Research Concept
Fire hazards are omnipresent in underground coal mines and remain a serious hazard. Modeling and characterization of mine fire behavior is critical for effective fire monitoring and early warning, evacuation of personnel, rapid response, and successful fire fighting. In order to develop better preventative and mitigating controls, this capacity-building contract will examine new modeling techniques, state-of-the-art fire fighting techniques for application to mine fires, and systematically apply this knowledge for a generalized risk assessment of fires in underground coal mines.Topic Areas
Fire Control and Suppression
Fire Fighting
Contract Status & Impact
This contract is complete. To receive a copy of the final report, send a request to mining@cdc.gov.
The purpose of capacity-building contracts is to help build the capacity of our nation’s workforce to address critical safety and health problems in U.S. mines by producing graduates with advanced degrees in mining and minerals engineering, and to help develop tenure-track faculty performing research in these areas. Applications for these competitive grants are announced as part of NIOSH OMSHR’s Broad Agency Announcements and are submitted by a Principal Investigator at a U.S. institution offering an ABET-accredited undergraduate degree in mining or minerals engineering.
For further information on capacity-building contracts, please submit a request to mining@cdc.gov.
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U.S. Bureau of Mines/NIOSH Mining Electrical Safety Research: A Legacy of Protection Against Shock, Fires, and Explosions
Page last reviewed: July 19, 2016
Page last updated: July 19, 2016
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program
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