General Info

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Dr. Yi Luo studied mine ventilation with particular interest in ventilation and air conditioning in deep and hot underground mine for his M.S. degree from University of Idaho.

In 1989, he earned his Ph.D. degree from West Virginia University specializing on prediction and control of mine subsidence. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Department of Mining Engineering of West Virginia University. From 1990 on, he has obtained and successfully conducted various government and industry research projects. He has published about 145 technical papers and 400 plus technical reports. Dr. Luo is also listed in 1998-99 edition of Strathmore's Who's Who. He is the co-winner of R&D 100 Awards 2004, 2005 and 2006. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as the endowed Charles E. Lawall Chair for Energy and Environment.

Dr. Luo has developed the theories, mathematical models and a series of a subsidence prediction programs (e.g., CISPM, CISPM-W, CISPM-MS, etc.) which has been proven, through various applications, to be versatile and accurate. He has conducted numerous projects on assessing and mitigating subsidence influences on various residential, industrial and public structures and water bodies. He has conducted various investigations related to abandoned mine subsidence events. He has served as expert witness for many subsidence related issues.

Dr. Luo has conducted various mine ventilation research projects such as coal mine dust, machine noise control, reduction of respirable dust in drilling, coal's propensity of spontaneous combustion, atmospheric composition modeling in sealed mine area and its explosibility assessment. He has conducted a number of ventilation investigations ranging from ventilation network simulation, compliance analysis, identifying cause and location of thermal events, explosibility determination of mine atmosphere.

Education

• • B.S., Mining Engineering, Xian University of Science and Technology (formerly Xian Mining Institute), Xian, China, 1982

  • M.S., University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 1985

  • Ph.D., West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1989

  • P.E., in States of West Virginia and Ohio

Research Interests

• • Mine Ventilation

  • Mining subsidence - prediction, influence assessment and control, abandoned mine subsidence investigation

  • Roof geology mapping using drilling parameters acquired during roof bolting operations

  • Applications of geophysical methods in mining

  • Dust control in underground coal mines

  • Longwall mining technology

  • Engineering controls of machine noises in underground mines

  • Computer applications in mining

Teaching Experiences

• • Underground Mining Systems

  • Mineral Property Evaluation

  • Mine Ventilation

  • Coalbed Methane Recovery

  • Parts of Senior Mine Design

  • Advanced Mine Ventilation

  • Surface Subsidence Engineering

  • Theories of Surface Subsidence

Professional Societies

• Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration(SME) of the AIME

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society