- fire hazard monitoring
- laboratory tests of coal samples from selected seams in order to gain coal characteristics, quantities and composition of gases, emitted during oxidation in conditions approximate to adiabatic ones
- performing of specialist laboratory equipment for precise gas analysis
- laboratory tests of gas samples
- development of computer programs for the interpretations of results of coal spontaneous combustion investigations
- fire hazard prediction
- determination of sites, particularly subject to spontaneous fire for gobs of selected longwalls
- fire hazard prevention
- tests regarding spontaneous ignition of materials
- determination of principles of fire detection in tunnels
DEPARTMENT OF MINING AEROLOGY
Poland, 40-166 Katowice, Plac Gwarków 1
Head of Department
D.Sc. Eng.
CYGANKIEWICZ JANUSZ
phone: +48 32 259 2571
e-mail: j.cygankiewicz@gig.eu
LABORATORY OF MINE VENTILATION AND MINE AIR-CONDITIONING
Head of Laboratory
D.Sc.
KNECHTEL JÓZEF
phone: +48 32 259 2194
e-mail: j.knechtel@gig.eu
LABORATORY OF COAL SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
Head of Laboratory
D.Sc. Eng.
CYGANKIEWICZ JANUSZ
phone: +48 32 259 2571
e-mail: j.cygankiewicz@gig.eu
