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Battelle Leads Team to Milestone in Carbon Capture Demo Project
Ten years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) set a big goal. It wanted a scientific demonstration ...
Ten years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) set a big goal. It wanted a scientific demonstration of injecting a significant amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the rock deep below the earth’s surface. ...
... componentry, to include Industry 4.0 infrastructure, critical military technologies and personal devices. Currently, China leads the world in both mining and processing of REEs, prompting many American ...
... is as abundant as coal, and gas-fired power plants have high rates of efficiency and flexibility with moderate investment costs. All this leads one to assume that coal will lose market share to natural ...
... the period; to date this year, West Virginia leads the per-state list with four, or half of coal’s eight deaths. Both occurred at the surface of underground mines, though one was classified as an ignition ...
... and, in turn, leads to a threat to operator safety.
“Michelin’s most popular tire, tested on all truck brands, is designed for punishing environments where safety and performance is the goal,” said ...
... operator informed in real time “tightens the bell curve” for truck payload distribution, which leads to an average increase and consistency in truck payload. Significant production and maintenance benefits ...
... Did We Learn?
Answering one of our key research questions about training, we found that emergency training in immersive, virtual training environments leads to increased confidence among mine rescue ...
... it is welded. This approach simply does not work when a machine has been pushed beyond the original design specifications as it leads to an unacceptable “mean time between failures” (MTBF). When increasing ...
... human resources, business development and strategic market leadership. Kevin Needham has been promoted to president of Kiewit Engineering & Design Co. and leads the company’s power markets and strategy ...
By Luke Popovich
The National Mining Association (NMA) won another legal victory this winter, arguably its biggest, when the Supreme Court voted to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean ...
A former mine foreman in Bell County, Kentucky, has pleaded guilty to violating federal mine safety regulations that contributed to an October 2014 worker death.
According to the Associated Press, ...
... pain from those who do.
This leads to the second, larger point underscored by the campaign’s coal kerfuffle: It dramatizes how far both parties have drifted from their historical, traditional moorings. ...
... zero locomotives completely equipped. In this case, the column heading leads to a deceptive answer.
On August 28, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, ...
... several problems. The high stress and deterioration in geological and mining conditions, in many cases, causes problems with gateroads maintenance due to excess convergence [and] that leads to costly production ...
Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp., the largest U.S. utility, pleaded guilty to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at several of its North Carolina facilities ...
... 2015.
Technology & Information Management Brett Owens with Neptec Technologies leads off the Monday morning session with his presentation, Improving Shovel-truck Spotting through the Application of Neptec’s ...
An ex-state mine inspector in Kentucky has pleaded guilty in a federal court to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a state representative in exchange for ignoring cite-worthy violations at coal ...
... form...[T]he form’s design predictably misleads operators into violating the standard...Despite MSHA’s determination that MSHA Form 5000-23 was not ‘so confusing as to be unusable,’ the secretary may be ...
... said Maptek Product Manager for BlastLogic Mark Roberts. “Better blast performance leads to better fragmentation, which in turn leads to easier handling and processing of excavated material. Improving ...