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Waddle fans, sometimes incorrectly spelled Waddell, [1] were large centrifugal fans, used to ventilate coal mines. They were noteworthy for their extremely large size and distinguished by an integral shroud for the fan, which makes it possible to mount them in the open air.
A type of Davy lamp with apertures for gauging flame height. The lamp consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. The screen acts as a flame arrestor; air (and any firedamp present) can pass through the mesh freely enough to support combustion, but the holes are too fine to allow a flame to propagate through them and ignite any firedamp outside the mesh.
"Cold mines" such as Raglan Mine and Nanisivik Mine are designed to operate below 0 °C. [1] The wet bulb temperature in any working place does not exceed 33.5 °C and where the wet bulb temperature exceeds 30.5 °C arrangements are made to ventilate the same with a current of air moving at a speed of not less than one meter per second.
John Buddle (15 September 1773 – 10 October 1843) was a prominent self-made mining engineer and entrepreneur in North East England. He had a major influence on the development of the Northern Coalfield in the first half of the 19th century, contributing to the safety of mining coal by innovations such as the introduction of the Davy Lamp ...
Modern flame safety lamp used in mines, manufactured by Koehler. A safety lamp is any of several types of lamp that provides illumination in places such as coal mines where the air may carry coal dust or a build-up of flammable gases, which may explode if ignited, possibly by an electric spark.
The new plant ensured the production of cleaner, graded coal. The screen has now been removed from the mine site. [1] The new plant also included two elevators of steel construction and a 30-by-4-foot (9.1 by 1.2 m) picking belt. The picking belt was used to facilitate the removal, by hand, of rock from the coal.
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Mechanical screening, often just called screening, is the practice of taking granulated or crushed ore material and separating it into multiple grades by particle size.. This practice occurs in a variety of industries such as mining and mineral processing, agriculture, pharmaceutical, food, plastics, and recycling.