Mine Ventilation System Variable Resistance Regulate Air Quantity Economy and Its Impacts on Artisanal Mine in Ivory Coast

Thermal oxidation of coal mine ventilation air methane

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and the principal component of natural gas. Coal seams often contain significant quantities of methane, and underground coal mines must ensure that methane released into the mine during coal extraction does not build to dangerous levels. This is accomplished in part through the use of large-volume ventilation systems that remove methane from the mine and rel...

INVENTS: A Hybrid Mine Ventilation Planning and Design System

A Brief History of Mine Ventilation

Observations of the movements of air in underground passages have a long and fascinating history. Between 4000 and 1200 BC, European miners dug tunnels into chalk deposits searching for flint. Archaeological investigations at Grimes Graves in the south of England have shown that these early flint miners built brushwood fires at the working faces—presumably to weaken the rock. However, those Neo...

Engineering Aspects of Coal Mine Ventilation Systems

The s ingle most c r i t i c a l f a c t o r a f f e c t i n g t h e h e a l t h and s a f e t y o f workers engaged i n t h e coa l -winning p r o c e s s i s the mine envi ronment ; which i s b r o a d l y d e f i n e d as t h e space i n which man works when underground and i n c l u d e s t h e p h y s i c a l and c h e m i c a l c o n d i t i o n s of t h e s u r r o u n d i n g e n c l o ...

Mine, mine, mine: information theory, infostation networks, and resource sharing

The Infostations wireless data network architecture features discontinuous coverage and ultra-high radio rates for burst transfers of information between base and mobile. It has been shown previously that the infostations architecture can greatly increase the capacity of wireless data systems at the expense of increased delivery delay. In this work we explicitly consider the multiple access iss...