COURSE SYLLABUS

For 2022 CUMT Summer School

Modern Mining Technology and Safety Engineering

APRIL, 2022

Instructor information:

OBJECTIVES:

1) To provide basic theoretical knowledge on the subjects of modern mining general knowledge, mining geophysics, coal gas extraction and water protection mining, back filling mining, mine ventilation, mine fires and explosion, mine gas and mine dust, etc. Contents include: concepts, definition, practical technology, etc.

2) To train the research report/essay writing skills for the above mentioned mining subjects.

REQUIRED TEXTS & READING:

1) Sydney S. Peng, Longwall Mining (in English), 1984, New York John Wiley & Sons publisher.

2) Lei Zhang, Study of Coal Sorption Characteristics and Gas Drainage in Hard-to-drain Seams (in English), 2016, China University of Mining and Technology Press.

3) Mcpherson, M. Subsurface Ventilation Engineering, 2010, Published by Mine Ventilation Services, Inc. U.S.A (The Book can be downloaded through the Website: https://www.mvsengineering.com/index.php/downloads/publications).

4) Cheng, J., Yang, S., and Luo, Y., 2010, Mathematical Models for Optimizing and Evaluating Mine Ventilation System, in: 13th United States/North American Mine Ventilation Symposium (S. Hardcastle, and D. McKinnon, eds.), Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada, pp. 278-285.

5) Sydney S. Peng, Coal Mine Ground Control (in English) third edition, 2009.

6) Chinese Coal Mine Safety Regulations, 2013. (B. O. C. C. Administration, ed.), Beijing.

7) Deming Wang, et al., Mine Ventilation and Safety(in Chinese), 2010, CUMT press, 2010.

8) Hartman, H. L., Mutmansky, J. M., Ramani, R. V., and Wang, Y. J., 1997, Mine ventilation and air conditioning, Wiley-Interscience.

9) Ratan Raj Tatiya. Surface and Underground Excavations – Methods, Techniques and Equipment, 2005, A.A. Balkema Publisher.

10) Zai-kang Lin, Ji-ping Du, Jia-lin Xu, Guang-ming Feng, The Coal Mining Method (in English), 2004, CUMT press.

11) Lowrie, Fundamentals of Geophysics, Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK.

12) Distributed research report and teaching notes.

GRADING POLICY:

1) The participation and quiz in class;

2) The reports/essays during the class;

3) The group discussion and presentation.

Submission Guidelines

All students should submit their reports/essays using the following format:

1) All pages should be numbered. All pages should have student name on header.

2) All technical reports should professionally include the parts of abstract, main report content, discussion, reference.

Letter Grade

The scores will be given according to your report/essay. You will get:

A if 80% ≥

B if you get 70% to 80%

C if you get 60% to 70%

D if less than 60%

Tentative Schedule