Fire Prevention in Coal Waste Dumps: Exemplified by the Rymer Cones, Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 350-385

  Misz Kennan, Magdalena ^a   Gardocki, Mariusz ^a   Tabor, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b BAROSZ GWIMET Ltd   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coal waste dump; Combustion; Fire prevention; Self heating; Waste deposition

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL ASH; COAL MINES; COMBUSTION; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE SLABS; CONCRETES; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FLY ASH; HEATING; PRECAST CONCRETE; WASTE INCINERATION;

COAL WASTES; CONCRETE PANELS; FIRE PREVENTION; FLAT SURFACES; HOT SPOT; SELF-HEATING; UPPER SILESIAN COAL BASINS; WASTE DEPOSITION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84942808938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59509-6.00013-2     Document Type: Chapter

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