Mine Machinery II
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Mine Machinery II Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mine Machinery II (subject code 3152201) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 62 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3152201)Unit 1 Mine Pumps
- Types of pumps
- Working head and Efficiencies for centrifugal pumps
- Multistage pumps
- Performance characteristics
- Reciprocating pumps
- Construction details
Unit 2 Mine Winders
- Koepe and Drum winders and their applications
- head gear
- head gear pulley
- various shaft fittings such as Keps
- rope guides
- Cage and suspension gear
- Detaching hooks
- Different types of winding drums
- Safety devices in winders
- Methods of counter balancing rope
- Duty cycle
- Mechanical and electrical braking
- Ward Leonard control
- Torque time diagram
- Ground and tower mounted friction winders
- Winding from different horizons
- Multi rope winding
- Design calculation for different types of winding system
Unit 3 Pit Top And Pit Bottom
- Layouts of pit-top and pit-bottom
- Run round arrangement
- back shunt circuit
- Lofco system
- traverser circuit
- turn table
- Tub couplings
- Mine Regulations on winding. pit top arrangement for a skip
- Mineral handling and screening equipment’s
- Layouts of railways siding of mines
Unit 4 Coal Face Machinery
- Coal drill- construction
- operation and maintenance
- Shearers: Different types
- single and double drums
- Coal Ploughs and continuous miners
- Principles of operation
- construction features
- their suitability
- their choice
- Road header and dint header
- Face Loaders for Coal Mines
- Selection and application of machinery
Unit 5 Face Machinery in Metal Mines
- Types of drill machines and their application
- Simba and Jumbo drills
- Mechanical Loaders: Classifications
- scope of use of each in different conditions
- construction and operations of scraper loader
- pneumatics loaders
- gathering arm loader
- low profile dump trucks
- side discharge loader
Unit 6 Conveyors
- Construction and operation of different types of belt conveyors
- chain conveyors
- armoured flexible conveyors
- stage loaders
- main and extensible belt conveyors
- Idlers and the supporting structure
- Capacity & Subject Code: 3152201 power calculation and selection of conveyors
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