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Mining Publication: Smoke Reversal Interaction with Diagonal Airway - Its Elusive Character

Original creation date: January 2006

Image of publication Smoke Reversal Interaction with Diagonal Airway - Its Elusive Character

The reversal of smoke products-of-combustion from a mine fire was determined in a mine section with the airway connectivity of an electrical Wheatstone bridge. Four diesel-fuel fire experiments with fire heat-release rates between 504 and 771 kW were conducted in the Safety Research Coal Mine located at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Pittsburgh Research Laboratory. Smoke reversal propagated upwind from the fire with significant leakage into the upwind diagonal airway and without causing a complete reversal of airflow in the diagonal airway. A control measure consisting of a brattice suspended half entry height from the entry roof was determined to abate the smoke rollback. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the smoke movement agreed with the measurements.

Authors: JC Edwards, GF Friel, L Yuan, RA Franks

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - January 2006

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 20031788

Trans Soc Min Metall Explor 2006 Jan; 320:149-156


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