Engineers from West Virginia University (WVU) received backing to develop an improved methane monitoring network for greater longwall safety. Derek Johnson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Statler College, who is steering the work, said a refined network of sensors could enable proactive responses to rising gas levels, versus current practices of a single shearer-mounted methane sensor…
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