Calamity Hollow Mine Fire Project. 3. Instrumentation for combustion monitoring, process control, and data recording. Report of investigations/1984
This report is the third in a five-part series that describes the Calamity Hollow Mine Fire Project. The first report, part 1, describes the design and construction of the field installation. Part 2 will present the results of a continuous 4-month burnout operation. (Because part 2 involves the analysis of a substantial body of data, it will not be published until after publication of parts 3, 4, and 5.) This part (part 3) describes the instrumentation used to control and monitor the progress of the burnout operation. Parts 4 and 5 both deal with the closeout phase of the field demonstration. Part 4 describes the procedure used to quench the fire, and part 5 will describe the final excavation and backfilling of the heated zones. The reports in this series document the Calamity Hollow controlled burnout demonstration which showed that (1) controlled in situ combustion is a feasible method for controlling underground fires in abandoned mines, (2) the resultant thermal exhaust output is sufficient for energy utilization, and (3) water injection with fume exhaustion (WIFE) is a potentially effective method for cooling large underground fire zones. Further trials of both Burnout Control and the WIFE quenching procedure are planned.
- Research Organization:
- Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Pittsburgh Research Center
- OSTI ID:
- 6530271
- Report Number(s):
- PB-84-213511; BM-RI-8862
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: See also PB83-225417. Library of Congress catalog card No. 83-600025
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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