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Mines rescue and safety

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 542-0327/10
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

1. Mining risks, basic types of mining accidents, frequency and occurrence
2. Effects of gases on the human body, permissible concentrations of toxic gases
3. Mining microclimate, microclimate standardisation
4. Explosivity of gases and dusts, dealing with explosive gases
5. Dust, hygiene risks, dust limits
6. Risk of spontaneous combustion of coal
7. Endogenous and exogenous mine fires
8. Cave-ins, cave-ins, water, rock and gas overflows
9. Mine tremors
10. Mining rescue service in the Czech Republic, organisation, legislation
11. Organisation of rescue operations, platoons, bases, basic tasks
12. Rescue of the consequences of accidents in mines
13. Rescue in difficult microclimatic conditions; Breathing technique

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 .


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