scholarly journals Analysis of the Results from In Situ Testing of a Sensor In-Stalled on a Powered Roof Support, Developed by KOMAG, Measuring the Tip to Face Distance

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 8541
Author(s):  
Sławomir Bartoszek ◽  
Joanna Rogala-Rojek ◽  
Dariusz Jasiulek ◽  
Jerzy Jagoda ◽  
Krzysztof Turczyński ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Real Object ◽  
In Situ Testing ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Roof Fall ◽  
Roof Stability ◽  
Roof Support

Mining in underground plants is associated with high risk. Improving work safety and increasing the productivity of longwall systems in the mining industry is a problem considering many criteria. Safety aspects concern both the crew and the machinery. The KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology designed and manufactured a geometry monitoring system based on inclinometers that meet the requirements of the ATEX directive. Monitoring of the roof support geometry is used for the prevention of loss of roof stability: roof fall or/and cave-in. The system was tested on a real object in real conditions.

scholarly journals Components of an innovative electro-control system for undeground mining – analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawid Szurgacz
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Electronic Control ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Rapid Diagnostics ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Electronic Control System ◽  
Economic Improvement ◽  
Roof Support

Abstract In the era of Industry 4.0, coal companies began to reach for new innovative technologies that increase work safety and their possible use affects the economic improvement of companies. One of them is to equip a powered roof support section with an electrohydraulic control system with a monitoring system that tracks operating parameters. The development of a monitoring system for a powered roof support is a key investment in new longwall complexes. It allows rapid diagnostics of status of the support. Currently used system designed to control the powered roof support are based on blocks of manually controlled distributors. The pilot control is currently the leading control that properly functions in all conditions, allowing to adapt to the requirements resulting from the construction of the section. A number of tests and analyses must be conducted prior to introducing the new control based on an innovative approach into operation. The basic research has focused on identifying the user interface that will potentially be the solution for the entire system. The user has defined how the driver should look like and how it will be operated and maintained. The results of the first series of tests on the elements of an innovative electronic control system of the powered roof support enabled to develop a prototype version. The assumptions for the system were verified during the conducted development studies. The article presents preliminary results of development research for devices included in the innovative control system of the powered roof support.

scholarly journals Intratumoral heterogeneity of surrogate molecular subtypes in urothelial carcinoma in situ of the urinary bladder: implications for prognostic stratification of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Garczyk ◽  
Felix Bischoff ◽  
Ursula Schneider ◽  
Reinhard Golz ◽  
Friedrich-Carl von Rundstedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Carcinoma In Situ ◽  
Molecular Subtypes ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Invasive Bladder Cancer ◽  
Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer ◽  
Prognostic Stratification ◽  
Muscle Invasive

AbstractReliable factors predicting the disease course of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS) are unavailable. Molecular subtypes have potential for prognostic stratification of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, while their value for CIS patients is unknown. Here, the prognostic impact of both clinico-pathological parameters, including CIS focality, and immunohistochemistry-based surrogate subtypes was analyzed in a cohort of high-risk NMIBC patients with CIS. In 128 high-risk NMIBC patients with CIS, luminal (KRT20, GATA3, ERBB2) and basal (KRT5/6, KRT14) surrogate markers as well as p53 were analyzed in 213–231 biopsies. To study inter-lesional heterogeneity of CIS, marker expression in independent CIS biopsies from different bladder localizations was analyzed. Clinico-pathological parameters and surrogate subtypes were correlated with recurrence-free (RFS), progression-free (PFS), cancer-specific (CSS), and overall survival (OS). Forty-six and 30% of CIS patients exhibited a luminal-like (KRT20-positive, KRT5/6-negative) and a null phenotype (KRT20-negative, KRT5/6-negative), respectively. A basal-like subtype (KRT20-negative, KRT5/6-positive) was not observed. A significant degree of inter-lesional CIS heterogeneity was noted, reflected by 23% of patients showing a mixed subtype. Neither CIS surrogate subtype nor CIS focality was associated with patient outcome. Patient age and smoking status were the only potentially independent prognostic factors predicting RFS, PFS, OS, and PFS, respectively. In conclusion, further clarification of heterogeneity of surrogate subtypes in HR NMIBC and their prognostic value is of importance with regard to potential implementation of molecular subtyping into clinical routine. The potential prognostic usefulness of patient age and smoking status for high-risk NMIBC patients with CIS needs further validation.

An in-situ monitoring system on the grinding process

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
ByoungChang Kim ◽  
MinCheol Kwon ◽  
JaeBoong Ha ◽  
KangWoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
In Situ Monitoring ◽  
Grinding Process
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