Effects of rock dusting in preventing and reducing
To demonstrate the heat sink effect of rock dusting, the entry is dusted with limestone powder at, and kg per meter of entry to create 0%, 65% and 80% rock dust concentrations, respectively. In an explosion event, the passing hot air at 2000 °C suspends and fully mixes with the coal and rock dusts at a point. The airborne coal and rock dusts (originally at ambient temperature