MINE VENTILATION 1

MINE VENTILATION

Mine Ventilation is the Circulation of the fresh air at all working place to dilute
& remove the noxious gases for making the mine environment comfortable and
safe.

OR

The provision of a directed flow of fresh and return air along all underground
roadways, traveling roads, workings, and service parts.

STANDARD OF MINE VENTILLATION

The mine air is not comparable to the atmospheric air due to the various factors.
Polluting it evidently the air circulating underground invariably be free from any
pollution and the level of oxygen should not be lower than 19% to achieve it, the
adequately of air matching with the following quantization parametric must be
ensured it.

Oxygen should not be less than 19%

Fire damp should not be more than 1%
Carbon dioxide should not be exceed 0.5%
Carbon Mono-oxide should not exceed 0.01%
Stink damp should not be more than 0.002%
Nitrous oxide should not be more than 0.0005%
Nitrogen should not be exceed more than 80%
Wet bulb temperature should not exceed 72F dry bulb
Dust particles size should not be less than 10 microns weight density
should not be more than 7 per cube meter of air.

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OBJECTIVES

These may be set out briefly as fellow

To provide adequately supply of fresh air in all parts of the mine where
persons are to work or pass so as to maintain their bodily health safety and
comfort,
To dilute and remove the noxious gases such as CO2 H2S, CO and nitrous
fumes which have harmful effect on health.
To dilute and noxious inflammable gas Such as CH4 and so as to prevent
the occurrence of an explosives..
To cool the working places in deep mine and render atmospheric
conditions as to heat and moisture for the conduct of efficient work
To remove or dissipate dust produced in the getting cool and the driving of
road ways through salacious Slater.

TYPES OF MINE VENTILATION

NATURAL VENTILATION

Natural ventilation depends upon the difference in elevation of the surface and
mine working and the difference in air temperature inside and outside the mine.

Temperature variations at the surface in most parts of the world exceed 100 F
between summer and winter extremes. Mine temperature vary little, except in
shafts, and near portals and farther the working are from the surface openings,
the less seasonal variation in temperature. Therefore, the temperature difference
and hence the magnitude of the natural ventilation, depends largely upon the
temperature at the surface and its floatation.

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Deep mines do not necessarily have good natural ventilation, rather than depth.
Mines in mountains have strong natural ventilation because of difference in
elevation of the opening. Mines which are both deep and hot enjoy good natural
ventilation, but the flow is generally stronger in cold climates than in warm.

If may be concluded than, that natural ventilation fluctuates, is unstable and is

unreliable. It is strongest in winter and weakest in summer and the natural
ventilation should never be considered as main source of circulation. It becomes
obvious that control over it must be exercised. Control devices in use for
mechanical ventilation can also be utilized to keep the natural ventilation in
control.

MECHANICAL VENTILATION

The fresh air is supplied and controlled through fans & ducting. If a fan while
working on a mine is exhausting air there from, the fan is then, due to centrifugal
force, creating a partial vacuum at its center or axis; the extent of this vacuum
depends on the peripheral or rim speed of the fan. The peripheral speed at which
a fan should run depends altogether on its construction. While some fans may
stand a rim speed of 16,000 ft. per minute, others will not stand more than 5000
ft. per minute. When the inlet of the fan is connected to the mine the only air that
can get to the fan must pass through the mine, and hence the ventilating current
is maintained as long as the fan runs. When the fan is running the pressure of the
air is always less at the inlet of the fan than outside, and the difference between
this pressure and the pressure of the atmosphere is the pressure producing
ventilation, or the extent to which a vacuum is approached by the fan. Many
differently constructed fans are being used for the purpose of ventilating mines.

The End

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