Mining Contract: Numerical Modeling of Gas Emissions and Cave Ventilation in Block Caving Mines
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| Contract # | 200-2014-59613 |
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| Start Date | 9/1/2014 |
| Research Concept | Block caving mining presents ventilation challenges which pose serious occupational health hazards. Research under this capacity-building contract focuses on development of practical mine ventilation engineering tools for safe and effective massive underground mining operations. The goal of this research is to develop a predictive tool for mine operators to assess cave resistances and pollutant gas emission rates with respect to cave propagation. |
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Contract Status & Impact
This contract is ongoing. For more information on this contract, 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 OMSHR@cdc.gov.
See Also
- Development of Numerical Models to Investigate Permeability Changes and Gas Emission around Longwall Mining Panel
- The Direct Method of Determining Methane Content of Coalbeds for Ventilation Design
- Effects of Ventilation and Gob Characteristics on Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Areas
- Evaluation of the Relative Importance of Coalbed Reservoir Parameters for Prediction of Methane Inflow Rates During Mining of Longwall Development Entries
- Methane Diffusion Parameters for Sized Coal Particles: A Measuring Apparatus and Some Preliminary Results
- Mine Face Ventilation: A Comparison of CFD Results Against Benchmark Experiments for the CFD Code Validation
- Modeling and Prediction of Ventilation Methane Emissions of U.S. Longwall Mines Using Supervised Artificial Neural Networks
- Modeling Methane Emissions and Ventilation Needs by Examination of Mining Induced Permeability Changes and Related Damage to Ventilation Controls
- A New Methane Control and Prediction Software Suite for Longwall Mines
- Simulation of Spontaneous Heating in Longwall Gob Area with a Bleederless Ventilation System
- Page last reviewed: 7/18/2016
- Page last updated: 11/5/2014
- Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program