Develop, Assemble and Install a Permissible Surveillance and Communication System in the Bureau of Mines Mining and Safety Research Center Coal Mine at Bruceton,Pennsylvania. Volume I. Systems Development.

摘要

The system installed at the USBM Bruceton Research Center consisted of an aboveground central computer control factility (or surface monitor station) and ten mine monitor stations at selected locations within the mine. Each station provided local measurement and display of several environmental parameters that were judged critical to safety in mining operations. These included smoke,noise,carbon monoxide,methane,hydrogen,temperature,rate of temperature rise and ventilation rate. The system was designed to demonstrate that continuous monitoring of these parameters could provide early recognition of a potentially dangerous condition so that corrective action could be taken before a disaster occurs. One of the primary objectives of this contract effort was to provide a highly productive tool for mine safety research. For this reason,the surface monitor station included not only parameter display and alarm systems but a very flexible and functional data handling and storage system whose central processing unit was a GE-PAC 30-2E computer.