TY - JOUR
T1 - Gaseous emissions from the Lotts Creek coal mine fire
T2 - Perry County, Kentucky
AU - Garrison, Trent
AU - O'Keefe, Jennifer M.K.
AU - Henke, Kevin R.
AU - Copley, Gregory C.
AU - Blake, Donald R.
AU - Hower, James C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - The Lotts Creek coal mine fire is burning in abandoned works of the Pennsylvanian Hazard No. 9 coal, Perry County, Kentucky. Over the few months separating sampling trips, the fire showed a definite migration to the south. Several vents sampled on the first trip were extinct on the second trip. The flux of major gases varies from 1100 to 440,000 mg/s/m2 CO2 and < 100 to 12,000 mg/s/m2 CO, with the gas temperature being one of the principal drivers of the emissions variations; the higher the temperature, the more CO2 produced. Mercury, also showing wide variation, from 45 to 740 ng/s/m2, could not be measured at all vents due to temperature limitations inherent in the instrument. In addition to CO2, CO, and Hg, a number of gases among the volatile aliphatic and volatile aromatic compounds are emitted in potentially dangerous amounts.
AB - The Lotts Creek coal mine fire is burning in abandoned works of the Pennsylvanian Hazard No. 9 coal, Perry County, Kentucky. Over the few months separating sampling trips, the fire showed a definite migration to the south. Several vents sampled on the first trip were extinct on the second trip. The flux of major gases varies from 1100 to 440,000 mg/s/m2 CO2 and < 100 to 12,000 mg/s/m2 CO, with the gas temperature being one of the principal drivers of the emissions variations; the higher the temperature, the more CO2 produced. Mercury, also showing wide variation, from 45 to 740 ng/s/m2, could not be measured at all vents due to temperature limitations inherent in the instrument. In addition to CO2, CO, and Hg, a number of gases among the volatile aliphatic and volatile aromatic compounds are emitted in potentially dangerous amounts.
KW - Air quality
KW - BTEX
KW - Carbon dioxide
KW - Mercury
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U2 - 10.1016/j.coal.2017.06.009
DO - 10.1016/j.coal.2017.06.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85025803906
SN - 0166-5162
VL - 180
SP - 57
EP - 66
JO - International Journal of Coal Geology
JF - International Journal of Coal Geology
ER -