| Effective Term: | 2024/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Advanced Mine Ventilation |
| Unit ID: | ENGIN5503 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (ENMIN4050) |
| ASCED: | 030303 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit qualifies participants to apply an advanced body of knowledge in the area of mine ventilation and equips them with highly developed skills for research and enquiry. Students enrolled in this unit will be able to apply the body of knowledge to a range of contexts within the mining industry enabling them to undertake professional or highly skilled work within the mining industry and allow them to undertake further study. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | |  | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Recognize the engineering science involved in environmental engineering in underground structures. |
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| K2. | Appreciate mine ventilation and ventilation pollutant control. |
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| K3. | Identify alternative ventilation systems to achieve control over ventilation contaminants. |
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| K4. | Interpret alternative ventilation methods in mining. |
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| K5. | Demonstrate detailed engineering calculations related to subsurface environmental engineering. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Synthesize knowledge to identify and appraise complex mine ventilation problems. |
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| S2. | Evaluate complex ideas in mine ventilation. |
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| S3. | Select appropriate tools to creatively solve problems in mine ventilation. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Design short, medium and long term ventilation plans and schedules for a underground mine. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include:
1.Review of elementary mine ventilation.
2.Review and extension of mine ventilation network analysis.
3.Optimisation of mine ventilation systems.
4.Design and planning of chilled water reticulation systems.
5.Design and planning of mine refrigeration systems.
6.Ice as a mine coolant.
7.Methane drainage systems.
8.Radon and radon daughter control in mines.
9.The effects of mine fires on ventilation and the prediction of these events.
10.tench analysis. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1-5, S1-3, A1 | Numerical and conceptual research tasks. | Submitted assignments | 30-40% | | 2. | K1-5, S1-3, A1 | Design projects. | Report | 30-40% | | 3. | K1-5, S1-3, A1 | Examination or test of some or all of the unit content | Examination or test | 30-40% |
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