Mining Machinery

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Free Online Course: Mining Machinery provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Swayam. Mining Machinery is taught by Prof. Khanindra Pathak.

Overview
  • Mining Machinery is a core course for undergraduate program in Mining Engineering. This course deals with the basic construction, operation and maintenance aspects of machines used in mining and quarrying industry so that a graduate mining engineer can select the right equipment for specific job under defined geo-mining conditions and provide feed-back for design, application and upkeep of the machines.This course briefly reviews the fundamentals of machinery and covers machinery used in mining for preparing work-site by leveling, grading and compacting ground, for preparing roads, removal of over burden and transporting it to the dumping sites, preparing ground for mineral production, transporting the same to the processing sites. It also covers machines for under underground mining and evacuation of bulk materials with brief introduction of maintenance management aspects.INTENDED AUDIENCE :Undergraduate students of Mining EngineeringPREREQUISITES : Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Introduction to Electrical EngineeringINDUSTRIES SUPPORT :CIL, HCL, NALCO, SAIL, NTPC, NLCIL, HZL, Essel Mining, JSW, BEML, HEC, L&T

Syllabus
  • Week 1:1. Introduction to Mining Machinery
    1. Classification of Mining Machinery and characteristics of Machinery
    2. Fundamentals of Machinery
    2. Introduction to Machine elements
    3. Mechanical transmission of power in mining machinery
    4. Shafts, pulleys, gears, and gear/trains Bearing and Brakes Week 2: 5Belt drives, chain drives
    6. Prime Movers
    7. Fluid Power for Mining Machinery
    8. Pneumatic Power MachineryWeek 3: 3. Wire Ropes
    9. Steel Wire Rope Types and Design Calculation
    10. Steel wire rope maintenance
    4. Site and Rock Preparation Equipment
    11. Principle of Rock-Tool Interaction
    12. Dozer and Ripper Week 4: 13. Drills
    14. Scraper
    15. Motor Grader
    5. Surface Mining Machinery Machinery for Cyclic Excavation
    16. Electric Rope Shovel
    Week 5: 17. Hydraulic Excavators and Back Hoe
    18. Front End Loaders
    19. Hydraulic Excavators and Back Hoe
    Machinery for continuous excavation
    20. Bucket Wheel ExcavatorWeek 6: 21. Bucket Chain Excavator
    22. Continuous Surface Miner
    23. Dredge
    6. Underground Mining Machinery
    24. Loaders: Gathering arm loader, Rocker shovel, LHD, SDL Week 7: 25. Road header
    26. Underground drills and Roof bolter
    27. Continuous Miner
    28. Shuttle cars Week 8: 29. Shearer
    30. surface coal/ore handling plant
    7. Turbo Machinery
    31. Pump, fan and Compressor
    32. mine pumps, pumping ranges, and fittings Fan
    Week 9: 8. Transportation Machinery for Surface Mines
    33. Off-Highway trucks
    Case Studies
    34. Belt Conveyor
    Exercise and Problem Solving Week 10:35. Aerial Ropeways
    9. Transportation Machinery for Underground Mines
    36. Rope Haulage Exercise and Problem SolvingWeek 11: 37. Locomotive
    Exercise and Problem Solving
    38. Introduction to Cage and Skip Winding
    Exercise and Problem SolvingWeek 12: 39. Low profile dumper
    10. Types of Maintenance and Maintenance Measurements
    40. Introduction to Maintenance Engineering
    Quiz, Review and Interactio