- Author
- Edwards, J. C. | Grannemann, G. N.
- Title
- Computer Simulation of Oxygen Requirements for Evacuating Miners.
- Coporate
- Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA
- Report
- IC 9063, 1986, 42 p.
- Keywords
- mathematical models | mine ventilation | respiration | escape
- Abstract
- The Bureau of Mines developed a mathematical model to predict the oxygen requirements for a miner evacuating a mine. The model accounts for variations in the miner's escape speed with mine airway height, and for the empirically determined expressions for the weight-specific oxygen uptake rate for upright waling, stooped walking (duck-walking), and crawling. A Fortran computer program that is user oriented was prepared based upon the model's constitutive equations. Specific instructions for utilizing the program, as well as applications to miner evacuation from a mine, are presented.