- Author
- Braun, E.
- Title
- Self Heating Properties of Coal.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA
- Report
- NBSIR 87-3554, August 1987, 108 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- adiabatic furnace | coal | test methods | ignition temperature | self-heating | spontaneous combustion | fire tests
- Identifiers
- fire hazards
- Abstract
- Three methodologies for predicting the likely occurrence of self-heating in underground coal mining environments were analyzed. No method was found to be completely satisfactory for general coal mine applications. One evaluation system was found to provide excellent guidelines for preplanning procedures prior to initiating full scale coal mine operations, but it relied on past mining experience.