Underground Coal Mining detailed Syllabus for Mining Engineering (Mining), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU Mining 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU Mining 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for underground coal mining is as follows.
Course Learning Objectives:
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Module-1
Introduction: status of coal reserves, grade and rank of coals available in India, status of coal mining in India, mining conditions in Indian coalfields. Opening of Coal Seams: Access by adits, by surface drifts on incline, vertical shafts; Division of mine into blocks. Choice of Coal Mining Methods: Basic Mining Methods, Factors influencing choice of mining methods.
Module-2
Development: Bord and Pillar, and Room and Pillar Mining; design of bord & pillar workings, the panel system, panels and inter-panel barriers, size of pillars and galleries; methods of driving galleries; layouts for different combinations of loading and transport systems including continuous systems. Depillaring: preparatory arrangements for depillaring; sequence and manner of extraction of pillars; mechanized pillar extraction, setting and withdrawal of supports; air-blasts; partial extraction.
Module-3
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Module-4
Extraction of Longwall panel: working with shearer and plough, support system of longwall face and gate roads, monolithic packing in longwall advancing gate roads; case studies of longwall faces in India. Strata mechanics around Longwall panel.
Module-5
Thick seam mining: multi-section mining, slicing methods, sublevel caving, integrated sublevel caving, blasting gallery method, thick seam extraction by cable bolting, hydraulic mining. Contiguous seam working: working under surface structures and water bodies, harmonic mining; shaft pillar extraction; Horizon mining; Gasification of coal.
Course Outcomes:
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Question Paper Pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Principles and Practices of Modern Coal Mining R.D. Singh , New Age International, 1997.
- Modern Coal Mining Technology S.K. Das Lovely Prakashan Publishers 2 nd edition, 1994
Reference Books:
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