According to the poor image quality of the monitoring system in coal mine monitoring, an integrated image clarity method was presented which using adaptive multi-level noise reduction median filter based on the direction in the spatial domain to denoise the image first, then using multi-wavelet transform to enhance the low-light image in the transform domain. This integrated approach combines t...

The relationship of conductivity and the frequency, which is of decisive significance in through-theearth wireless communication in coal mine, is closely related to the options of frequency range in coal mine wireless communication. When through-the-earth wireless communication is applied, the electromagnetic waves need to spread in the semi-conductive medium rocks. The main factors affecting t...

In the present study, an investigation was carried out on Parvadeh coal mine in Tabas, Iran, to survey the effect of fractures on unusual methane gas emission in coal mines. This coal mine was chosen for investigating because of its high methane gas content in the coal body and available data from sensors in desired locations. Gas concentration monitoring programs were carried out at the mine s...

This chapter describes the adverse health effects associated with exposure to respirable coal mine dust. Epidemiological studies of underground and surface coal miners in the United States and other countries are discussed. Also discussed are animal studies that add to our understanding of particle deposition and retention in the lungs and associated disease responses. This chapter emphasizes s...

Differential SAR Interferometry (D-InSAR) is an effective tool in monitoring land subsidence because of its greater coverage area and better resolution of height change. A series of Japanese Earth Resources Satallite-1 (JERS-1) images from 1992 to 1998 has been used in monitoring the mine subsidence in the test site of this study, one of the important coal mining areas in China. D-InSAR procedu...

The facility is located four miles east of Hayden in Routt County, and consists of two BART-eligible boilers. Unit #1 is rated at 190 MW and is dry-bottom, wall-fired. Unit #2 is rated at 275 MW and is tangentially-fired. The Hayden boilers burn Colorado coal that primarily comes from two different mines in northwestern Colorado, the Twenty Mile Mine and the ColoWyo Mine. Coal characteristics a...

For several years, our research group has been developing methods for automated modeling of 3D environments. In September, 2002, we were given the opportunity to demonstrate our mapping capability in an underground coal mine. The opportunity arose as a result of the Quecreek mine accident, in which an inaccurate map caused miners to breach an abandoned, water-filled mine, trapping them for seve...

Belt and King (1945) studied the tissue reactions produced in animals by selected dusts from South Wales coal mines, and found that clean coal (low ash coal fraction containing 99% coal) produced only minimal fibrosis (grade 1) with simple foreign body reaction in 250 to 500 days. In experiments with high ash coal fractions which contained from 37 to 66% coal and about 1 to 3% quartz, the rest ...