Faculty Name – Prof.

Satya Prakash
Program – DIT IV & B.Tech IV(MIN)
Batch – 2018-21 &
Course – Surface mining
 Measures against dust (CMR 123)
• Chain of coal cutting machine will always be
equipped with complete set of picks.
• Mechanical coal cutter chain will be sprayed
with water jets during cutting.
• For power operated drills dust trap should be
used or wet cutting should be adopted.
• At every working face and roadway within 60
m of the face water should be stone dusted at
intervals so that on the floor, roof and sides
has at least 30 % water at all times ; or
• Floor, roof and sides of workings, if not
naturally wet, should be stone dusted at
intervals so that the dust samples at those
places have at least 75 % incombustible
matter in them or 85 % incombustible matter
in them.
• Stone dust used for dusting should not contain
more than 5 % of free silica.
• Specifications of stone dust should be tested
once in 3 months.
• Where dust cannot be suppressed to safe
limits, every worker exposed to such dust shall
be provided with a ssuitable respirator.
Application of stone dust
• The stone dust mixed with coal dust has
the effect of absorbing the heat that
would otherwise ignite the coal dust
cloud.
• The stone dust prevents coal dust from
reaching the ignition point.
• Dust of shale, limestone or gypsum is
generally recommended for use. Sometimes
boiler ash, finely ground, is also used but it
contains siliceous matter.
• The percentage of incombustible dust in the
coal/ stone dust sample in a mine should be
50 to 60 %.
• The stone dust should be fine, generally 100
mesh and finer.
• Stone dusting and wetting of coal dust by
water cannot go togrther.
• Stone dusting is effective if the dust is readily
raised in air in the form of a cloud.
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