Mine Ventilation
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Mine Ventilation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mine Ventilation (subject code 3162207) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 38 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 (3162207)Unit 1 Composition of mine atmosphere
- Mine gases-production
- properties and effects
- Sampling andComposition of mine atmosphere: Mine gases analysis of mine air
- Methane content
- Methane drainage
- Flame safety lamp and its uses
- Methane layering
- Radon gas and its daughter products
- Monitoring of gases
Unit 2 Heat and humidity
- Sources of heat in mines
- Effects of heat and humidity
- Kata thermometer
Unit 3 Air flow through mine openings
- Laws of flow
- resistance of airways
- equivalent orifice
- losses in airways
- distribution of air, economic design of airways
- Flow control devices
- Permissible air velocities in different types of workings/openings
- Standards of ventilation
Unit 4 Natural ventilation
- effect of seasonal variations
- calculation of NVP from air densities
- thermodynamic principles and other methods
Unit 5 Mechanical ventilation
- Types of mine fans
- characteristics and suitability of fans
- testing and output control
- Fans in series and parallel
- Forcing and exhaust configurations
- Reversal of flow
- Fan drifts
- Booster and auxiliary ventilation
- Venturi blowers
- Ventilation of deep underground and open pit.mines
Unit 6 Ventilation planning
- Planning of ventilation systems and economic considerations
- Ventilation layouts for mining of coal and ore deposits
- Ventilation of workings/stopes using heavy blasting
- Calculation of air quantity required for ventilating a mine
- 12 Subject Code: 3162207 w.e.f
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