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Machines for Underground Mining and Mineral Processing

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 340-0938/02
Abbreviation SHTZN
Course title Machines for Underground Mining and Mineral Processing
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Machine and Industrial Design
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Fries, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The topic of the semester project for detailed processing and teaching will be specified in connection with the dissertation theme.

1. Mining shearers
2. Coal plows
3. Roof supports
4. Shearer complexes
5. Plow-mining complexes
6. Digging and drilling machines

E-learning

It can be applied

Literature

Study literature mainly for English speaking students will be recommended individually depending on the theme of the semestral project. Standards, machine parts catalogues, technical and mechanical tables and corporate literature - depending on the character tasks.

GONDEK, Horst, ŠEVČÍK, Arnošt, ed. Mining machinery. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2004. ISBN 80-248-0820-X.
HUSTRULID, W. A. a Richard C. BULLOCK, ed. Underground mining methods: engineering fundamentals and international case studies. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c2001. ISBN 0-87335-193-2.
TIBBETT, Mark, ed. Mining in ecologically sensitive landscapes. Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-62091-8 .
PIVNJAK, Hennadij H., ed. Mining of mineral deposits. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2013. ISBN 978-1-138-00108-4.
PENG, Syd S. a Han Shing CHIANG. Longwall mining. New York: Wiley, c1984. ISBN 0-471-86881-7.
ELMAN, Jiří a Václav MICHALÍČEK. Anglicko-český a česko-anglický hornický slovník. Praha: Sobotáles, 2000. ISBN 80-85920-64-6.

Advised literature

Standards, machine parts catalogues, technical and mechanical tables and corporate literature - depending on the character tasks.

ROTTENBERG, Dan (2003). In the Kingdom of Coal; An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93522-9 . OCLC 52348860
ŽŮREK, Petr. Deposit mining. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2005. ISBN 80-248-0903-6.
German longwall mining: facts and figures. 1985. The operation of a longwall coal cutting machine.
PIVNJAK, Hennadij H., ed. Mining of mineral deposits. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2013. ISBN 978-1-138-00108-4.
ŽŮREK, P. Basics of mining: (syllabus). 1st ed. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2004. ISBN 80-248-0800-5.