Proceedings of the fifth international conference of Directors of Mine Safety Research

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1950

OSTI ID:7081284

Greenwald, H P ^[1]

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The Fifth International Conference of Directors of Mine Safety Research was held at the Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 20-25, 1948. Twenty-five items from the Proceedings (1950) have been entered individually into EDB. Topics discussed were: Blasting explosives, especially sheaths and safety (nonignition of methane-air mixtures), detonators, comparative evaluations and methods of testing explosives (comparison of methods used in different countries), toxicity of combustion products, diesel engine use underground (exhaust gases and ignition hazards), methane (combustion kinetics and branching chain process of combustion), use of rock dust (plus water sprays with and without wetting agents), NaCl, CaCl/sub 2/ and rock dust barriers to minimize and suppress methane explosions), experiments on the explosibility of dusts of different coals inluding effects of particle size and volatile matter, an accident in a French coal mine where an explosion of the compressed air system set off a dust explosion, safe electrical equipment and methods of testing and specifying, legislation and regulations, mine roof supports, mine atmosphere sampling and analysis, and prediction of explosibility from the analysis. (LTN)

• Research Organization: Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7081284
• Report Number(s): BM-BULL-489; CONF-480902-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
012000* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Mining
016000 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Health & Safety
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
450100 -- Military Technology
Weaponry
& National Defense-- Chemical Explosions & Explosives
ABSTRACTS
ACCIDENTS
AIR
ALKANES
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIONS
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
COAL MINES
COAL MINING
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
COMPRESSORS
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
DIESEL ENGINES
DOCUMENT TYPES
DUSTS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
EXHAUST GASES
EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIVES
FLUIDS
GAS ANALYSIS
GAS COMPRESSORS
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HAZARDS
HYDROCARBONS
IGNITION
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
KINETICS
LEADING ABSTRACT
LEGISLATION
LUBRICATION
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
MEETINGS
METHANE
MINES
MINING
MINING EQUIPMENT
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
REACTION KINETICS
SAFETY
SAMPLING
SUPPORTS
TOXICITY
UNDERGROUND MINING
WASTES