Courses Handbook 2008

304959 (v.2) WASM Mine Ventilation 532


Area: Western Australian School of Mines
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Discusses the provision of a safe underground working environment through sound ventilation practice. Topics covered include - ventilation and mine services, environmental contaminants, heat in underground mines, ventilation system management, coal mine hazards and control, coal mine ventilation, metalliferous mine hazards and control, metalliferous mine ventilation. Ventilation project economics. Ventilation network simulation. Application of refrigeration for management of heat in hot mines. Gas and pressure monitoring with interpretation of gas mixtures. Ionising radiation.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        
2008 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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