Introductory to

Mine
Ventilation
Rini Novrianti Sutardjo Tui

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Grading System

Assign
ments
20%

Mid-test
35%

Partici
pation
5%

Minimum Class
Attendance is

Final-test
35%

80%

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Schedule for Semester

December

September

November
Week 1 Introductory
Week 2 Basic Principles
of Airflow
Week 3 Mine Gasses
Week 4 Dust in Mine Air

October

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4

Mine Fans
Control Devices
Resistance Relationship
Atkinsons Equation

Mine Explosion and Mine Fire

Mine Ventilation Cost
Mine Ventilation Efficiency
Mid Test

Mine Ventilation System

Ventilation Survey
Natural Ventilation
Final Test

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General Rules

Be on time. Lateness is tolerated for only

15 minutes from the starting of the class

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Introduction

MINE VENTILATION

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Definition of Mine Ventilation

The concentration of

To dilute
The process of
conducting an adequate
flow of pure fresh air
along airways, working
places and service point
underground

To dilute

The explosive and toxic gasses

The concentration of
The airborne dust to
physiologically acceptable levels

To provide

A thermally acceptable
Environment

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Two Basic Problems

Technology
Underground Mining

Rock
Mechanics
aspect does the

applied underground
mine system have
adequate supporting
system towards
opening?

Mine
Ventilation
aspect is it

possible to implement
air management in
order to do mine works
in safe and
comfortable
workspace?

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History of Mine Ventilation

Pre Middle Ages

Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Information Age

Information Age

There was development of twin access and divided shaft in the

Laurium silver mines of Greece (600 BC).
In the Roman times, slaves waving palm fronds were used to
promote air circulation.
Mine ventilation practices were illustrated and described in
De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola, 1556. The book
described horse and human powered centrifugal fans. Agricola
also described the danger of blackdamp and firedamp.
John Atkinson, a British mining agent presented his famous
paper On the Theory of the Ventilation of Mines in 1854.
Atkinsons Equation still forms the basis for all mine
ventilation engineering.
The most notable feature has been the development of
computerized mine ventilation network analysis. This has
made the prediction of fan requirements and airflow
distributions in complex mine ventilation circuits feasible
using desk computers.

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Single Systems
Consists of:
Brattice system
Fan & Duct
system
Forcing system
Exhausting
system
Extended
system

Mine Ventilation System

Combined System
A system that
combines two
single systems:
Push-pull system
Overlapping
system

Alternative Systems
A system that uses
other type of air
mover:
Jet fan
Spray fan
Compressed air
ejectors

Infrastructure of Mine
Ventilation

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Position
and main
duty of
fans

Direction
of airflow
Layout of
airways
network
Geometry
of airways

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Illustration

MINE VENTILATION

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Simple Schematic of Mine

Ventilation

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Mine Ventilation System