Special Issue on mine dust research:health effects and control technologies

• 作者: Shimin Liu Weimin Cheng Gang Wang Long Fan Rui Zhang
• 来源期刊: 国际煤炭科学技术学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: EDITORIAL
• 页码范围: 177-178
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the world.During the extraction,transport,and processing of coal in underground and surface mining operations,sig-nificant amounts of airborne respirable dusts can be gen-erated and released to the working space.Chronic exposure to coal dusts puts the miners at risk for various lung dis-eases,including coal workers' pneumoconiosis,emphy-sema,silicosis,and chronic bronchitis.Apart from the miners' lung disease,the coal mine dusts also potentially increase the risk of mine explosion which has been rec-ognized as one of the most severe hazards in underground coal mine.