Course

Heat in Underground Mines - MNNG9903

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Mining Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.mining.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Enrolment in program 5046

Excluded: MINE9903

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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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