Welcome
In order to stimulate and exchange academic ideas, present recent achievements, explore potential issues and collaborations and promote the development of dust and occupational health related science and technologies, this year we will host the 1st International Symposium on Mine Dust and Aerosol Research on Nov 15 and 16 in a virtual mode at Pennsylvania State University. Our goal is that everyone, everywhere can connect together as one community.
During mineral extraction, transport, and processing in underground and surface mining operations, significant amount of airborne respirable dust can be generated and released to the working space. Chronic exposure to this dust puts miners at risk for various lung diseases, including pneumoconiosis, emphysema, silicosis, and chronic bronchitis. Apart from miners’ lung disease, the dust also potentially increases the risk of mining explosions, recognized as one of the most severe hazards in underground mining. Tremendous global effortsare underway to reduce respiratory diseases in miners, targeting reductions in occupational illnesses. Since most of these lung diseases cannot be cured, the key to occupational respirable disease prevention is to effectively reduce dust exposure.
To achieve this objective, existing dust control technologies should be refined, and innovative dust control technologies must to be explored, developed, and ultimately implemented. Newly emerged and advanced technologies have been widely researched to investigate, monitor, identify, characterize, and capture the dust from large-scale dispersion to invisible nano-scale transmission. Advanced and effective mine dust control technologies are expected to be consistent with the fundamental dust-lung interaction processes that potentially lead to miners’ disability. Mine dust research, understood from nanoscale upward, covers a wide range of topics including: (1) multiscale mine dust characterization; (2) control of dust generation; (3) dust toxicity and dust-lung interactions; (4) dilution, dispersion and collection of dust in the in situ mine environment; (5) intrinsic relationship of geology, hydrology, and mining technology to dust generation and transport; (6) and mine equipment emitted particulates, diesel particulates and others.
Abstracts highly rated by the Scientific Committee, will be invited to prepare full papers to be published in special issues in the International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
https://www.springer.com/journal/40789
Dates Location
Nov 15-16, 2021 Virtual, Pennsylvania State University
Organization
Organized by:
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Shandong University of Science and Technology
- International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
Committees
- Shimin Liu The Pennsylvania State University
- Liang Yuan Academician, Anhui University of Science and Technology
- Qingguo Yao Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Weimin Cheng Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Fubao Zhou China University of Mining and Technology
- Shuancheng Zhu Publishing & Media Group of China Coal Research Institute
- Barbara Arnold Penn State University
- Sekhar Bhattacharyya Penn State University
- Mohammad Rezaee Penn State University
- Long Fan The Pennsylvania State University
- Pedram Roghanchi The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- Gang Wang Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Wanjie Wang International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
- Hongze Zhao China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing
- Ang Liu The Pennsylvania State University
- Bingyou Jiang Anhui University of Science and Technology
- Sheng Xue Anhui University of Science and Technology
- Tingxiang Ren University of Wollongong
- Botao Qin China University of Mining and Technology
- Longzhe Jin University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Weihong Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Haiqiao Wang Hunan University of Science and Technology
- Agus Sasmito McGill University
- Xiangjun Meng Shandong Energy Group Co., Ltd.
- Guang Xu Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Yansong Zhang Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Lianjun Chen Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Bin Wang Sinosteel Maanshan General Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd.
- Dewen Li Chongqing Research Institute, China Coal Technology & Engineering Group
- Hua Shao Shandong Academy of Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine
- Gang Zhou Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Hetang Wang China University of Mining & Technology
- Xiangming Hu Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Wen Nie Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Sai Tao International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
- Haiming Yu Shandong University of Science and Technology
- Qiming Huang Shandong University of Science and Technology
Co-organized by:
- China University of Mining and Technology
- Anhui University of Science and Technology
- University of Wollongong
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- University of New Mexico