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Electric Power Distribution in Mines and Quarries

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Course Unit Code420-8542/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KOL62doc. Ing. Václav Kolář, Ph.D.
Summary
The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with basics of electrical engineering, which are applied on distributions of electric energy in open-casts, their design, dimenzioning and operating. It also acquaints students with basis of electric drives in open-casts and with possible methods of these devices protection against electric shock injury.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Students will get an idea of how electrotechnics is applied in mining industry, to a degree necessary for Mining Faculty graduates. The aim is that in their future careers, as users of electrical equipment or managers, students can understand some problems that have to do with their functioning.
Students will also learn more about protection against injury in electrotechnics and with the most important legal regulations that they may encounter in their future careers.
Another aim is to teach students where and how to find the necessary information (literature, norms, the Internet...)
Course Contents
- Technical standardization.
- Technical documentation in electrical engineering.
- Electric devices, classification, safety requirements.
- Power networks.
- Transmision and distribution of electric energy.
- Dimensioning of electric lines.
- Circuit fusing.
- Ensuring of power supply, reserve power supplies.
- Kinds of external influences according ČSN 330300 and ČSN 332000-3 standards.
- Mounting, cooling, coverage of electric machines.
- Contact and non-contact logic control.
- Electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres
- Power distribution in mines.
- Power distribution in quarries.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Electrical engineering in mining, Stanislav Kocman, VŠB-TU Ostrava.
Hornická elektrotechnika III, Jan Šoral, VŠB-TU Ostrava
Recommended Reading:
Materials of the teacher, online resources.
Govindasamy, K.: Electrical Engineering, Theory I, Tamilnadu textbook corporation, 2010
Sylaby přednášek a cvičení od vyučujícího, internetové odkazy, odborné firemní manuály.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit35 20
        ExaminationExamination65 16