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Mines rescue and safety

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 542-0327/08
Abbreviation HRZ
Course title Mines rescue and safety
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Václav Zubíček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The risks of mining activities and their control
Risk-gas in the mine atmosphere, typical causes of
unsafe conditions and their management, controlling the output of methane, mine degassing
for contol, long work firedamp Centre, aerodynamics caving areas
Plynodajnosti-forecast vertical and horizontal pieces and faces, methane
layer
-Risk of coal and rock dust, coal dust explosions,
explosion mechanism, technical measures for the disposal of dust, irrigation
coal seams and surrounding rock, protective measures against explosions and transmission
explosions
-Protection against noise and vibration
The risk of improper lighting-mining sites
Plynodynamické-effects - tremors, rock and gas outbursts, the conditions of formation,
prognosis, active agents for the prevention
Mine fires, endogenous and exogenous, their identification and control
Risk-inrushes water and bahnin, conditions of, technical measures
prevention of inrush
-Fires in the underground, the theory of spontaneous combustion fire and mash in
underground
-Control of mine fires - a tactic inerting
-Construction of dams, dikes and types of equipment
Tactics-rescue actions in different types of accidents in underground
self-rescue devices, technical rescue equipment, the use of computer
technology in the field of ventilation and Mine Rescue
-The latest findings from the field, the economic consequences of emergencies and
emergency situations in the operation of the mine hazard, selected games, the latest
information on conferences, seminars, research work at home and abroad in
the ventilation and rescue


exercise outline:
1.Basic factors affecting the level of occupational safety and hygiene.
2.Design of wind and safety facilities on mining maps.
3.Degassing of a mine. Development of a mine degassing program for individual
conditions (according to the mine map).
4.Risk of dust as a health hazard. Protection against harmful
effects of dust.
5.Risk of noise and vibration. Sources of noise. Effects of noise on human
organism. Measures against the harmful effects of noise.
6.Prevention of noise pollution. Preventive inerting of cave-in areas
with nitrogen gas.
7.Methods of mine fires disposal.
8.Temperature range of fire fumes, wind reversal.
9.Explosivity of fire gases, methods of calculating explosivity. Assignments and solutions
semester program.
10.Extinguishing mine fires with steam gas generators, economic evaluation.
11.Irrigation, moisture measurement.
12.Types of self-rescue devices and their functions. Practical exercise with
rescue apparatus.
13.Principles of first aid for the disabled, necessary aids and equipment.

Literature

Adamus.A.: Mining Risks and Safety, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava,
Faculty of Mining and Geology, Ostrava 2005, ISBN 80-248-0813-7
Pavelek, Zdeněk. Monitoring mine rescuers' exposure to heat in an environment with the risk of explosion. Ed. 1st. Košice: Technická univerzita v Košiciach, 2014. ISBN 978-80-553-1801-1 .
Kicki, Jerzy a Eugeniusz Sobczyk, ed. International Mining Forum: new technologies in underground mining safety in mines. Leiden: A.A. Balkema, c2004. ISBN 90-5809-607-6.
HUDEČEK, Vlastimil. Protection of employees against the consequences of rock and gas outbursts in the Czech republic. Ed. 1st. Košice: Technická univerzita v Košiciach, 2014. ISBN 978-80-553-1773-1 .

Advised literature

MÍČEK, Dalibor. Ventilation and air conditioning od mines and quarries. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2005. ISBN 80-248-0812-9.
ADAMUS, Alois a Jindřich ŠANCER. Binary indicators of thermal oxidation of Ostrava-Karviná district coal. Sborník vědeckých prací Vysoké školy báňské - Technické univerzity Ostrava. Řada hornicko-geologická b. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2005, 51(2), 1-7. ISSN 0474-8476 .
ZUBÍČEK, Václav. Selected methods for determining susceptibility to spontaneous combustion of coal mass in The Czech Republic and foregin countries. Košice: BERG Faculty TU Košice, 2015. ISBN 978-80-553-2264-3 .
HUDEČEK, Vlastimil, Pavel ZAPLETAL a Václav ZUBÍČEK. The Protection Against Methane Leakage from Undermined Areas. Inżynierii Mineralnej. Polskie towarzystwo przeróbki kopalin, 2015, 35(1 Styczeń-Czerwiec), s. 115-119. ISSN 1640-4920 .