Mining Hazards and Safety
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The official GTU curriculum for Mining Hazards and Safety (subject code DI04022051) as prescribed for CSE · Semester 4 divides the course into 4 units, covering 36 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 (DI04022051)Unit 1 Mine Fires and Spontaneous Heating of Coal
- 1.1 Essential conditions required to start a fire (Concept of Fire Triangle). 1.2 Classifications of fires with suitable fire extinguishers. 1.3 Fire prone areas in surface & underground mines. 1.4 Causes of surface and underground fire with preventive measures. 1.5 Governing factors
- prevention and control. 1.6 Spontaneous Heating of Coal: Different Stages and Symptoms. 1.7 Factors governing proneness of spontaneous heating of coal
- determination by crossing point temperature method. 1.8 Preventive measures including panel system layout working
- Adequate ventilation provision
- Regular Inspection
Unit 2 Fire Fighting Operations in Mines
- 2.1 Fire-fighting on surface and below ground methods applied for Approachable fires: Direct Attack Methods)
- for Not Approachable Fires: Sealing of Fire Area: Preparatory
- Permanent Stopping
- Flooding the Area with water or inert gas. 2.2 Pressure balancing to control air leakage into sealed off fire areas. 2.3 Methods of collection of air samples from sealed off fire - areas and from mine atmosphere. 2.4 Recovery of sealed off mine working on account of fire by reopening
Unit 3 Mine Explosion
- 3.1 Firedamp explosion: Causes
- limits of explosibility of fire damp
- factor affecting the limit of explosibility
- source of initiation of fire damp explosion
- Mechanism of Firedamp explosion
- Preventive measures for firedamp explosion. 3.2 Coal dust explosion: Factor affecting the limit of explosibility of Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Mining Engineering Subject Code: DI04022051 Subject Name: Mining Hazards and Safety Coaldust
- Mechanism of Coaldust explosion. 3.3 Preventive Measures for Coaldust Explosion: 1
- Stone dusting 2
- Suppression of Dust 3
- Various Stone dust
- Types and Efficiency of Stone dusting
Unit 7 Inspection and Maintenance of Stone dust barriers
- 3.4 Water Gas explosion – causes and safety measures. 4
- Mine Inundation: 4.1 Causes of inundation by surface & underground water both in opencast & underground mines. 4.2 Design and construction of Boundary Barriers
- Panel barriers
- Water dams. 4.3 Precautions while approaching water-logged workings
- by means of long boreholes patterns by burn side boring apparatus
- Safety & statutory aspects. 4.4 Dewatering of old working
- Water blast dangers and precautions 12 20 5
- Mine Rescue & Recovery Work: 5.1 Scope of mine Rescue & Recovery
- Rescue organization
- Rescue stations
- Rescue teams- Selection Initial & refresher trainings. 5.2 Rescue apparatus self-contained portable breathing apparatus
- Smoke helmets
- Reviving apparatus
- With actual rescue operations. 5.3 Fresh air base
- Life lines & communication
- Actual operations survival technique use of bore holes in rescue operations
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