Surface Mining Technology Detailed Syllabus for B.Tech third year second sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Surface Mining Technology B.Tech 2016-2017 (R16) third year second sem is as follows.
B.Tech. III Year II Sem. L/T/P/C
Course Code: MN601PC 4/1/0/4
Course Objectives: To introduce the basic concepts of surface mining, working principles of excavation and transportation equipment such as shovel, dumper, bucket wheel excavator etc. and design of opencast mine. Placer and sea bed mining are added objectives of the course
Course Outcomes: At present 80% of the coal production and significant proportion of other mineral output is coming from surface mines and hence students get a benefit of detailed understanding of various techniques of surface mining including operation and maintenance of associated machinery as outcome of this course.
UNIT-I Basic concept of Surface Mining: Status of surface mining in India. Selection between
surface mining and underground mining, Preliminary evaluation of surface mining prospects; stripping ratio – concepts and significance, mine life. Opening up of deposits with Box Cut: Factors affecting selection of site of box-cut, Production benches – formation parameters and factors affecting their selection
UNIT-II Preparation for Excavation: Working principle of ripper and Scraper—their cycle of
operation, application and limitation. Drilling, types of blast hole drills, performance parameters of drills, estimation of number of drills for a given mine production. Problems associated with drilling and blasting.
UNIT-III Excavation and Transportation: Cyclic methods—shovel-dumper, pay-loader, dragline.
Continuous methods – bucket wheel excavator, bucket chain excavator, continuous surface miner, conveyors. Principle and operation of these machines, their advantages and limitations, capacity calculations, maintenance. Other equipments-dozer, grader, loader, scraper, dumper crusher, maintenance of open pit equipment.
TEXT BOOKS:
- S. K. Das – Surface Mining Technology
- G.B. Misra – Surface Mining
REFERENCE BOOKS:
- R.D. Singh– Principles and Practices of Modern Coal Mining
- H.L. Hartman – Introductory Mining Engineering.
For all other B.Tech 3rd Year 2nd Sem syllabus go to JNTUH B.Tech Mining Engineering 3rd Year 2nd Sem Course Structure for (R16) Batch.
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