Coal preparation, transportation, handling and new coal unloading system.

Preparation and Transportation of Coal

Noise Reduction in New Open-cut Coal Mines, Coal Handling and Preparation Plants

Noise emission from coal handling and preparation plants continues to be an important issue in Australia, with increasingly stringent legislation and environmental constraints being imposed on plant construction and operation. In recent times plant designers have endeavoured to obtain practical data to assist in the design of plants with reduced noise levels. A plant designed and built recently...

New Manipulator Concept for Handling Tasks in Coal-mining

A demand-responsive decision support system for coal transportation

In this paper, a demand-responsive decision support system is proposed by integrating the operations of coal shipment, coal stockpiles and coal railing within a whole system. A generic and flexible scheduling optimisation methodology is developed to identify, represent, model, solve and analyse the coal transport problem in a standard and convenient way. As a result, the integrated train-stockp...

Survey of noise in coal preparation plants.

In response to the continuing problem of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) among mine workers, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has conducted numerous noise surveys in coal preparation plants. The research, consisting of worker dose monitoring, task observations, and equipment noise profiling, was completed in eight separate preparation plants. Worker dose monit...