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- Reducing environmental hazards of blasting using electronic detonators in a large opencast coal project - a case study
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1 Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, IN
2 Director, Central Institute of Mine and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, IN
1 Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, IN
2 Director, Central Institute of Mine and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, IN
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Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, Vol 67, No 7 (2019), Pagination: 345-350Abstract
The core objectives of Indian Ministry of Coal in its vision statement is securing the availability of coal to meet the demand of different sector of economy in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner. Coal India produced 567.37 million tonnes of raw coal in 2017-18 out of which contribution from opencast mines was 536.82 million tonnes (i.e. 95%). Deep hole blasting for high capacity excavators like draglines, 20 cum shovels becomes imperative for achieving high production targets. Thus, environmental hazards associated with deep hole blasting is also bound to happen. One of the serious problems faced by deep hole blasting is that of ground vibrations. In Khadia opencast coal project the power plants, Rihand dam is in vicinity and local population in and around mines, controlling ground vibration was of paramount importance for the project. Hence, it became a challenge for reduction of environmental hazards involving deep hole blast for dragline; shovels using electronic detonators, for providing precision delay and maximizing the vibration of explosive energy. The blast design parameters using electronic detonator for various blasts of dragline benches were tried to know the resultant profile of ground vibrations near human settlement of Khadia project. This has also resulted in improvement of powder factor (volume of rock fragmentation per kg of explosive used). This paper deals with, as to how the environmental impacts due to ground vibrations of rock blasting, are reduced resulting in no complaints for dwellers and any authorities in and around Khadia project.
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- Agrawal H. and Mishra A.K. (2018a): ‘Evaluation of initiating system by measurement of seismic energy dissipation in surface blasting’, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 11(13), p. 345. doi: 10.1007/s12517-018-3683-3.
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- Mishra A.K., Nigam Y.K. and Singh D.R. (2017): ‘Controlled blasting in a limestone mine using electronic detonators: A case study’, Journal of the Geological Society of India, 89(1), pp. 87–90. doi: 10.1007/s12594-017-0563-5.
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- Assessment and review of maintenance practices in the 4th industrial revolution using the cognitive analytics framework
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1 Research Scholar, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad., IN
2 Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, IN
3 Research Scholar, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad., IN
1 Research Scholar, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad., IN
2 Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, IN
3 Research Scholar, Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad., IN
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Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, Vol 67, No 09 (2019), Pagination: 416-423Abstract
This paper reviews past and the prevailing maintenance concepts practiced, evolved with industrial revolutions over the centuries and briefly outlines the cognitive process, methods and framework of tools and techniques which will be used in the days to come. The maintenance practices have continuously evolved in how the equipment was earlier managed using breakdown, corrective, preventive, total productive maintenance, condition-based maintenance, failure analysis reporting, risk-based maintenance and reliability centric maintenance. The core objective of maintenance remained the same “Increase useful life of an asset with minimal costs”. The thinking now has changed from viewing maintenance as “costs” to maintenance as “investments”. In the era of Industry 4.0, the maintenance value chain - an integrated cyber-physical system plays an important role in the maintenance of the mining equipment. A cognitive/AI (Artificial Intelligence) maintenance framework can be an effective tool in optimizing the maintenance programme with minimal costs when compared to the traditional maintenance programme in the industry. The optimal replacement policy can be calculated and determined by the computer to minimize the expected downtime or maximize the expected profit. The minimum expected downtime per unit time and maximum expected profit per unit time can also be determined. This replacement policy and mathematic models can be used as reference to the failure system maintenance and replacement.The evolution from traditional data-driven algorithms to blended intelligent algorithms is helping in developing new optimization models for maintenance management systems.Keywords
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- Dependency of blast-induced ground vibration on the concentration and distribution of explosive charge in surface blasting
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1 Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited, Coal India Limited, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, IN
1 Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited, Coal India Limited, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, IN
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Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, Vol 70, No 1 (2022), Pagination: 11-17Abstract
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Blast-induced ground vibration; charge concentration; charge distribution; explosives; peak particle velocity 1References
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- Geological challenges in limestone quarrying and strategies to improve fragmentation in blasting
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1 Department of Mining Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600025, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, IN
3 Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600025, IN
4 Geo Exploration and Mining Solutions, Salem, Tamilnadu 636 004, IN
1 Department of Mining Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600025, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, IN
3 Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu 600025, IN
4 Geo Exploration and Mining Solutions, Salem, Tamilnadu 636 004, IN
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Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, Vol 70, No 1 (2022), Pagination: 18-25Abstract
Globally, the surface mining is considered to be primay mining operation for achieving sustained mineral production, which has shown augmented production with significant deployment of large capacity. These equipment require higher investment, and thus, mining engineers should plan to attain the best performance from these equipment. The capability of the loading and hauling equipment largely entrusted on the outome of the blast, particularly, the fragmentation and spreading of rockpile. Generally, the mine owners ignore geological descriptions and features apart from the nature of rock and began quickly quantifying the rockmass properties only whether it is hard or soft based on its geomechanical properties. From the geological studies, it is understood that the response of deep weathering of any deep-seated massive rock resulting in producing thick boulders. These embedded boulders possess the characteristics completely different that of surrounding rockmass and any other soil present in the vicinity. The blast fragment size generally dictates the output of equipment working in such formation and affects the productivity of the mine. Thus, an effective blasting is need of the hour in such formations that affects the cost of entire mining activities. Therefore, it is important to study the effect of blasting parameters on fragmentation of such embedded boulders through existing field practices and also using the advanced blasting technologies. This paper concerned with the fragmentation of embedded boulders/floaters under difficult geological conditions. Geology plays a critical role in every aspects of a blast’s performance and it is the chief uncontrollable factor to be considered for any blast design. The authors discuss the difficulties in identifying the embedded boulders by understanding the geological features properly and discussed the possible solutions to enhance its breakage during the blasting through conducting few experimental blasts in a limestone quarry.Keywords
Geology, mining, embedded boulder; blast design and fragmentation.References
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