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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Mines and Quarries Drainage

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0945/02
Abbreviation HGF
Course title Mines and Quarries Drainage
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vlastimil Hudeček, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1) Assessment basics geohydrodynamical structures and their importance for the classification of rock mass.
2) Groundwater flow in rocks, methods of determining basic hydraulic properties of rocks and soils.
3) Hydrogeological systems and their mode of water balance equation and its elements.
4) Hydrogeological survey and its tasks.
5) Hydrogeology is specifically focused on the issue of drainage pits, surface mines and underground mines, tunnels, etc.
6) Methods of active and passive protection against sudden inrushes water from aquifers in operating mines.
7) Requirements for mines works.
8) Static and dynamic design of dam structures.
9) Placement of pumps and pumping stations, mining operations in underground mines and quarries.
10) Environmental impacts of pumping ground water into streams and ways to eliminate the negative effects
11) Design drainage system at the quarries.
12) Drainage foreland folds, overburden cuts, cuts utility of raw materials, and dump.

Literature

Hummel, M., Mining and environment, Skriptum VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2005, ISBN: 80-248-1008-5, 29 s.

Advised literature

Journal: Mining Engineering, World mining