Mine Hazards
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Mine Hazards Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mine Hazards (subject code 3162204) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 45 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 (3162204)Unit 1 Mine Fires
- Causes of mine fires
- spontaneous combustion - mechanism
- stages of spontaneous combustion
- susceptibility indices
- factors affectingspontaneous combustion
- detection and prevention of spontaneous heating
- accidental fires – causes andprevention
- dealing with mine fires - direct and indirect methods
- fire stoppings
- fires in quarries
- coal stacks andwaste dumps
- re-opening of sealed-off workings
Unit 2 Mine Explosions
- Firedamp and coal dust explosions – mechanisms
- causes and prevention
- stone-dust and waterbarriers
- investigations after an explosion
Unit 3 Inundation
- Causes and prevention
- precautions and techniques of approaching old workings
- Dewatering of waterlogged working
- safety boringapparatus
- pattern of holes
- design and construction of water dams
- shaft dams
- emergency bulk heads
- strengthening of dams
Unit 4 Rescue and Recovery
- Rescue equipment and their uses
- classification of rescue apparatus
- rescue stations and rescue rooms
- organization of rescueand recovery work
- emergency preparedness and response system
Unit 5 Airborne respirable dust
- measurement and control
- physiological effects
- dust measurement
- sampling of air-bone dust
Unit 6 Illumination
- It’s effect on safety
- efficiency and health
- common types of safety lamps & their usesand limitations
- maintenance and examination of lamps
- their charging
- lamp roomdesign and organization
- lighting from mains – different types of illumination devices
- illumination of pit bottoms
- main roads
- pump houses and haulage rooms
- standards of illumination in underground and opencast mines. 9 Subject Code: 3162204 w.e.f
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