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Heat in Underground Mines - MNNG9903
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Mining Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.mining.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Excluded: MINE9903
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course module deals with the issues of heat in underground mines. The module topics are psychrometry, heat transfer, sources of heat and heat stress management. The module provides the means to analyse a mine's ventilation circuit to determine the magnitude of heat management controls required, such as refrigeration. The topic of refrigeration is taken further in module MINE9907.

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