Undergraduate - UnitMNE4110 - Advanced mine ventilation

This unit covers a series of issue-based advanced level mine ventilation topics. The unit provides in-depth knowledge of many of the most important areas in mine ventilation previously addressed at a basic level.

Thermodynamic aspects of mine ventilation, for example, the effects of friction in flow processes, en-tropy, adiabatic and isentropic processes, ideal isothermal compression, isentropic compression and polytropic compression are covered. Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) emissions and control, mine fires including spontaneous combustion, risk evaluation and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), ventilation network simulation, mine fire modelling and mine emergency planning are all critical aspects of any underground mining operation and are all important for advanced understanding of mine ventilation. Atmospheric monitoring and automation and refrigeration and mine air conditioning systems are crucial to mining operations are covered.