>>
>
>From my own experience spraying water onto burning coal stocks only helps
>intensify the burning.
Dep3ends on the pressure - at 10,000 psi lots of steam, lots of noise
and it goes out. (But only where the water hits unless you seal the
hole and keep pumping.)
Dave
--
David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
Rolla, MO 65409-0810
"fools talk, wise men listen." (a variant of Prov 12:23)
phone: (573) 341 4314
FAX: (573) 341 4368
related web pages
A growing selection of Dr. Summers' papers are being put on the Web
and can be accessed through the Bibliography
http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/faculty/biography.html
Rock Mechanics http://campus.umr.edu/rmerc/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
Next American Waterjet conference: http://www.wjta.org/conference.htm
7th Pacific Rim Conference (May 2003) http://www.kojet.org
Distance Learning: http://campus.umr.edu/mining/ogeneral.htm
|