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Literature survey – fire and smoke spread in underground mines
This report is part of the research project “Concept for fire and smoke spread prevention inmines”, conducted by a research group at Mälardalen University. The project is aimed at improving fire safety in mines in order to obtain a safer working environment for the people working for the mining companies in Sweden or for visitors in mines open to the public.This report deals with the first step in the project: the literature survey. The main purposes of the literature survey are: - To investigate and present what has been done in the non-coal underground mine firefield in the past. - To give recommendations on the continued work with regard to fire safety inunderground non-coal mines. A large amount of articles in scientific publications and material on internet were found duringthe literature survey. Most of the material was from USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, India, China, Russia and United Kingdom. The following conclusions were made based upon the findings of the literature survey: Starting with the statistical material, the most common fire cause in underground mines isflammable liquid sprayed onto hot surface, followed by electrical shorting/arcing and hot works.So based upon the statistics, a conclusion would thus be to focus on spray fires, fire caused byflammable liquid ignited by hot surface, vehicles fires (including rubber tires) and cable fires. Continuing on with the interesting locations in underground mines, mobile equipment workingareas would be first priority due to the high risk of fires in mobile equipment. Furthermore the types of mobile equipment to focus on should be: service vehicles, drilling rigsand loaders. There is at the moment no need for any extensive research with respect to the ignitability and flammability of pressurized hydraulic fluids, as an extensive work has already been conducted.Still the type of hydraulic fluid being used in the Swedish mines should be investigated and fire resistant hydraulic fluid should be recommended being used whenever possible. The ...
Literature survey – fire and smoke spread in underground mines
This report is part of the research project “Concept for fire and smoke spread prevention inmines”, conducted by a research group at Mälardalen University. The project is aimed at improving fire safety in mines in order to obtain a safer working environment for the people working for the mining companies in Sweden or for visitors in mines open to the public.This report deals with the first step in the project: the literature survey. The main purposes of the literature survey are: - To investigate and present what has been done in the non-coal underground mine firefield in the past. - To give recommendations on the continued work with regard to fire safety inunderground non-coal mines. A large amount of articles in scientific publications and material on internet were found duringthe literature survey. Most of the material was from USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, India, China, Russia and United Kingdom. The following conclusions were made based upon the findings of the literature survey: Starting with the statistical material, the most common fire cause in underground mines isflammable liquid sprayed onto hot surface, followed by electrical shorting/arcing and hot works.So based upon the statistics, a conclusion would thus be to focus on spray fires, fire caused byflammable liquid ignited by hot surface, vehicles fires (including rubber tires) and cable fires. Continuing on with the interesting locations in underground mines, mobile equipment workingareas would be first priority due to the high risk of fires in mobile equipment. Furthermore the types of mobile equipment to focus on should be: service vehicles, drilling rigsand loaders. There is at the moment no need for any extensive research with respect to the ignitability and flammability of pressurized hydraulic fluids, as an extensive work has already been conducted.Still the type of hydraulic fluid being used in the Swedish mines should be investigated and fire resistant hydraulic fluid should be recommended being used whenever possible. The ...
Literature survey – fire and smoke spread in underground mines
Hansen, Rickard (Autor:in)
01.01.2009
2009:2
Paper
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
624
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