Mine Ventilation

Proceedings of the 10th US / North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 16-19 May 2004

S. Bandopadhyay, R. Ganguli

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2004
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040055410
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The purpose of the 10th US North American Mine Ventilation Symposium in Anchorage 2004 was to bring together practitioners involved in the planning and operation of underground ventilation systems, to provide a forum for debate and exchange of ideas, and to share information on the advances which have been made and consider problems

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Organizing committee
• Ventilation systems design
• Comparative evaluation of block cave ventilation systems
• A study on event of unstable operation of an axial fan in a ventilation network
• Airflow in leaking ducts with multiple fans
• Assessing the performance and efficiency of booster and main fans in a large ventilation network
• A comprehensive approach to improve ventilation for operating underground mines*
• Ventilation systems for underground trona mines
• Measurement of frictional pressure differentials during a ventilation survey
• Ventilation system of Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland - a case study
• A ventilation study of the Detroit Salt Mine
• Diesel in underground mines
• Testing and reduction strategies for diesel emissions at PT Freeport Indonesia
• Conducting a comprehensive baseline study for Diesel Particulate Matter
• Using biodiesel fuels to reduce DPM concentrations; DPM Results using various blends of biodiesel fuel mixtures in a stone mine
• Evaluation of the contribution of light-duty vehicles to the underground atmosphere diesel emissions burden
• DPM reduction by thermal regeneration systems
• CFD analysis of diesel emissions in a railroad tunnel
• Study to assess the performance of ceramic diesel particulate filters for reducing diesel emissions
• Measuring exposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions in UK coal and non-coal mines
• Ventilation and control systems
• Development of a real time airflow monitoring and control system
• Monitoring and control of underground ventilation systems using VUMA-network  ®
• Precision gas monitoring for methane drainage
• Continual monitoring the natural ventilating pressure in a deep coal mine
• Use of a test box to measure response times for machine-mounted monitors
• The early detection of spontaneous combustion and the evaluation of the effectiveness of fire extinguishing countermeasures based on CO time series data
• Mine fires and explosions
• Use of an inertisation unit during a coal mine fire recovery operation
• Fundamental study on locating spontaneous combustion of coal by self-potential method
• The use of blasting fumes to inertise underground coal mine atmospheres
• Controlling fire and smoke movements in road tunnels by means of ventilation: state of the art
• Dust generation, transport and control
• Evaluating ventilating air movement in underground limestone mines by monitoring respirable dust generated from production shots
• Identifying improvements for a modified wet scrubber through simplified modelling
• A comparison of a directional spray system and a flooded-bed scrubber for controlling respirable dust exposures and face gas concentrations
• Controlling silver dust and fumes at mine refinery
• An assessment of a two-filter concept for a continuous miner wet scrubber
• Strata gas and control
• Migration of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere in areas of closed down underground mines
• Model research into retentive reservoirs of methane in coal mines
• Natural heating and cooling of intake air passing through fragmented strata
• Coalbed methane drainage: the past, present, and future
• Ventilation effect on radon levels in the ESF of Yucca Mountain
• Mitigation of methane emissions from coal mine ventilation air: an update
• Face ventilation/case studies
• How scrubbers help ventilate the face during deep cut mining with a blowing curtain
• Development of an assessment tool to minimize safe after blast re-entry time to improve the mining cycle
• The use of large axi-vane fans in auxiliary ventilation for multiple headings in a dieselised hot metal mine
• Estimation of thermal environment conditions in a heading face ventilated by forcing system
• Auxiliary ventilation operation practices
• Raising the bar of ventilation for large-opening stone mines
• 2500 hp variable speed mine ventilation fan installation P&M Coal Mining Co.
• Advances, modeling and software
• A computer software program that estimates air quantity requirements in large opening stone mines
• The application of mining industry ventilation survey techniques to a complex computational fluid dynamics analysis
• Filtered recirculation - a critical component to maintaining acceptable air quality in enclosed cabs for surface mining equipment
• Development of a wettability test for assessing effectiveness of surfactants for dust control
• The benefits of replacing the diesel engine with a fuel cell in underground mining production equipment
• The impact of changing employment and mining practices on the mine ventilation profession in Australia
• Studies of air leakage in underground mines using CFD
• Real-time neural network application to mine fire - nuisance emissions discrimination
• Ventilation savings with fuel cell vehicles
• Case studies from application of numerical simulation software to examining the effects of fires on mine ventilation systems
• A statistical approach to coal dustability
• Evaluating factors affecting the performance of three axis ultrasonic anemometers
• Prediction of shock loss at splits in mine airways - a computational and experimental assessment
• Case studies
• Ventilation improvement at Mimosa’s Mine 3 in the Sabinas Coal Basin, Coahuila, Mexico
• New techniques versus experience: a real case of mine ventilation analysis
• Preliminary ventilation design for the Grasberg block cave mine
• Revision of the ventilation system in Louhi mine - a case study
• Alternatives to using flame retardant belts in underground workings: a case study at Impala Platinum
• A case study on dust concentration at Guleman Kef Chromium Mine
• Author index