Determine Possible Means to Conduct Large Scale Frictional Ignitions Tests, and the Value of These to Coaltech
A scoping exercise based on technical enquiries to mine safety organisations and discussions at an international conference, aimed at rock engineers and safety practitioners weighing test facility investment.
No operating full scale frictional ignition test facility was found anywhere in the world, and building one was judged expensive, impractical and unlikely to justify its cost against laboratory scale testing. Effort should instead go to small scale laboratory equipment using South African rocks, and to expanding geological data such as silica distribution and petrographic analysis.
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