Mine Disasters and Rescue Mining 6th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Professional Elective-II)

Mine Disasters and Rescue detail syllabus for Mining Engineering (Mining), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17MN651), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other mining 6th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Mining 6th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-II subjects do refer to Professional Elective-II. The detail syllabus for mine disasters and rescue is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to:

1. To understand the causes of mine fire and spontaneous heating.
2. To know how to tackle the mine disasters like mine fire and inundation.
3. To understand the lighting in underground and open cast mine.
4. To understand the rescue and recovery operation in a mine.

Module 1:

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Module 2:

Spontaneous Heating
Spontaneous Heating: Mechanism, factors governing spontaneous heating, stages of spontaneous heating, symptoms of spontaneous heating in underground mines, detection and prevention of spontaneous heating, interpretation of mine air samples, Graham’s Index, Problems.

Module 3:

Disasters
Disasters: Types of Disasters, mechanism, ignition temperature, lag on ignition, causes and coal dust and fire damp explosions. Stone dusting, stone dust barriers and water barriers, investigation after the explosion, explosibility Limit, Problems on explosibility limit, Inundation: Causes, measures against inundation. Dewatering water logged workings, precautions to be taken when approaching old water logged workings, safety boring apparatus. Simple problems.

Module 4:

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Module 5:

Mine Rescue and Recovery
Mine Rescue: Mine Rescue and equipment, short distance apparatus, self-contained breathing apparatus (not specific to any equipment), Principle of operation, advantages, self-rescuers, organization of rescue. Mine Recovery: recovery work in connection with fires, explosions and inundations.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course students will be able to:

1. An ability to know the causes of mine fire and spontaneous heating.
2. An ability to tackle the mine disasters like mine fire and inundation.
3. An ability to design the lighting in underground and open cast mine.
4. An ability to carry out the rescue and recovery operation in a mine.

Text Books:

1. Mine Disasters and Mine Rescue, M.A. Ramulu, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Ltd., 1991.
2. Elements of Mine Technology Vol. II by D.J.Deshmukh, 6 th Edition, Central Techno Publications, Nagpur.

Reference Books:

1. Fires in Coal Mines L.C. Kaku, 2 nd Edition Oriental Publishers, 1985.
2. Mine Ventilation, S. Ghatak, Vol. I, Coal Field Publishers, Asansol, 1983.
3. Underground Mine Lighting – Torter, Vol. II, Trans Tech Publication, Frg, 1982.
4. Environmental Engineering in Mines, V.S. Vutukuri& R.D. Lama, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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