Mining Hazards and Safety
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Mining Hazards and Safety Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mining Hazards and Safety (subject code 4352204) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 30 listed topics. This curriculum applies from the July-2023 intake. 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 (4352204)Unit 1 Mine Fire
- 1.1. Essential conditions required to start a fire (concept of fire triangle).
- 1.2. Classifications of fires with suitable fire extinguishers (Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, Class E, Class F)
- 1.3. Fire prone areas in surface & underground mines
- 1.4. Causes of surface and underground fire with preventive measures
- 1.5. Governing factors, detection, prevention and control of spontaneous heating /fire
- 1.6. Precautions against outbreak of surface fire Mining Hazards and Safety Course Code: .4352204 spontaneous heating depending upon its symptoms.
- 1.7. Fire quenching materials used in mines for dealing with fire
- 1.8. Fire-fighting on surface and below ground methods applied for approachable fires (direct attack methods) for not approachable fires (sealing of fire area: preparatory, temporary, permanent stopping, flooding the area with water or inert gas).
Unit 2 Fire Damp Explosion
- 2.1. Causes of fire damp explosion
- 2.2. Coward's diagram
- 2.3. Limits of inflammability of fire damp
- 2.4. Sources affecting limits of inflammability of fire damp
- 2.5. Detection of inflammability limit of a gas air mixture
- 2.6. Mechanism of fire damp explosion
- 2.7. Preventions of fire damp explosions
Unit 3 Coal Dust Explosion
- 3.1. Causes of coal dust explosion
- 3.2. Factors affecting Inflammability of coal dust, explosibility limits with limiting conditions
- 3.3. Mechanism of coal dust explosion
- 3.4. Preventions of coal dust explosion: a. Prevention for accumulation of coal dust b. Prevention for removal of coal dust c. Use of stone dust barriers (characteristic of dust, types of barriers, location, maintenance)
- 3.5. Comparison of coal dust and firedamp explosion Mining Hazards and Safety Course Code: .4352204
Unit 4 Mine Inundation
- 4.1. Causes of inundation in mines a. By surface water b. By overlying strata c. By water logged working
- 4.2. Measures against inundations a. Surface measures b. Underground measures
- 4.3. Water logged workings in mines
- 4.4. Dewatering of water-logged workings a. Exploratory b. Drilling
- 4.5. Water dams constructional features
Unit 5 Mine Rescue and Recovery
- 5.1. Human respiratory system
- 5.2. Mine rescue apparatus a. Self-contained breathing apparatus b. Filtered air respirators, air purifying respirators c. Fresh air hose or tube breathing apparatus
- 5.3. Resuscitation (artificial respiration)
- 5.4. Preparatory for resuscitation
- 5.5. Rescue organization a. Rescue station, rescue room b. Rescue organization at mines c. Rescue and recovery work following mine disaster
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