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booster fan
A fan installed in an underground opening. A booster fan can be used as the main mine fan but is more commonly used to improve or augment the ventilation in a segment of the mine. Booster fans are illegal in U.S. coal mines but are used in metal mines and coal mines in other countries.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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