The module “Underground Mining Equipment” covers nine topics, which are
- The mines and the tasks of its equipment
- Keep it working: Maintenance
- The detail is important: Equipment Selection
- Basics of design / Calculation
- Infrastructure the backbone of mines
- Zoom 2 extraction: Production in longwalls
- Zoom 2 hydraulics: Support in longwalls
- Road development Road headers vs. Drilling&Blasting
- Safety first: Risks Assessment for Mining Machinery
Learning Objectives
After the lecture and the project, the student can
- Explain the layout and operating mode of underground mining machinery in soft and hard rock
- Design the size of selected machines by using equations and experienced data with MS Excel
- Decide which kind and size of machinery to choose for a specific situation
By the successful realization of the project, the student shows his/her ability to
- describe a machine and its task
- Identify connected machines and describe their interface
- ·identify and describe the operating conditions
- illustrate the design considerations and calculations
- evaluate and describe the machine safety, ergonomics, and ethics
- link the lecture topics to a given machine
- perform research on the named topics
- Teacher: Angela Binder
- Trainer/in mit Bearbeitungsrecht: Julius Bauermeister
- Trainer/in mit Bearbeitungsrecht: Alexander Hutwalker
- Trainer/in mit Bearbeitungsrecht: Oliver Langefeld
- Trainer/in mit Bearbeitungsrecht: Antje Mackensen