Review of respirable coal mine dust characterization for mass concentration, size distribution and chemical composition

B Abbasi, X Wang, JC Chow, JG Watson, B Peik… - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) exposure is associated with black lung and silicosis
diseases in underground miners. Although only RCMD mass and silica concentrations are …

Computer-controlled scanning electron microscope: Methodologies and application scenarios in atmospheric particle research

W Li, L Shao, H Geng, GS Casuccio, J Gao - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the physicochemical properties of atmospheric particles and the refined
source apportionment become a vital foundation for targeted control of air pollution. The …

[HTML][HTML] Design of a water curtain to reduce accumulations of float coal dust in longwall returns

CE Seaman, MR Shahan, TW Beck… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accumulation of float coal dust (FCD) in underground mines is an explosion hazard that
affects all underground coal mine workers. While this hazard is addressed by the application …

Physiochemistry and sources of individual particles in response to intensified controls during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing

W Li, J Li, T Ma, Z Chang, GS Casuccio, J Gao… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
To investigate the particle sources before, during, and after the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic
and Paralympic (WOP) in Beijing, ambient particles were passively collected from January to …

Enhancing understanding of anionic surfactant adsorption mechanism and hydrophilic modification of bituminous coal for effective dust suppression

H Liu, R Li, W Nie, Q Bao, W Niu, Q Tian, X Zhang - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024 - Elsevier
The large amount of coal dust generated by mechanized coal mining poses hazards such as
coal mine explosions, coal worker pneumoconiosis, and atmospheric pollution. Spray dust …

[HTML][HTML] A light scattering model for large particles with surface roughness

H Ballington, E Hesse - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2024 - Elsevier
A physical-optics hybrid method designed for the computation of single-scattering properties
of particles with complex shapes, including surface roughness, is presented. The method …

Shape Discrimination of Individual Aerosol Particles Using Light Scattering

Y Han, L Ding, Y Wang, H Zheng, L Fang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
We established an experimental apparatus by combining polarized light scattering and
angle-resolved light scattering measurement technology to rapidly identify the shape of an …

Applicability of the VisiSize D30 shadowgraph system for cloud microphysical measurements

JL Nowak, M Mohammadi… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
The commercial shadowgraph system, Oxford Lasers VisiSize D30, originally designed to
characterize industrial and agricultural sprays, was tested with respect to the application for …

Microstructure and adhesion force of dust on soil pavement in open-pit mine

J Wang, C Du, Y Wang, Z Chen - International Journal of Coal Science & …, 2023 - Springer
The microstructure and adhesion force between dust particles determine the dust starting
and migration to a certain extent. By use of scanning electron microscopy, the BET method …

Design and experiment of a lightweight cloud particle imager

L Cai, L Liu, Q Zeng, P Wang - Measurement Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate in-situ measurement of cloud microphysical parameters such as particle diameter,
number concentration and droplet spectrum distribution are of great significance in cloud …