COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MINE MECHANIZATION AND TRANSPORTATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDN 4711 MINE MECHANIZATION AND TRANSPORTATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Mining Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUHARREM KEMAL ÖZFIRAT

Offered to

Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

In this lesson, the students learn underground excavation methods and mechanization, the filling, water disposal, underground transport systems, signaling and monitoring techniques

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   able to understand the concept and methods of excavation.
2   able to understand mechanized excavation machines for mine developments
3   able to understand mechanized excavation and machines at underground coal mining
4   able to understand and design discontinuous and continuous underground transport systems
5   able to design compressed air network

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Excavability
2 Mechanized gallery opening, complete and partial cross sectional gallery boring machines
3 Mechanized production excavation with plows and shearers
4 Continuous excavation systems
5 Supports in mechanized systems
6 Other excavation methods; hydromechanical excavation
7 Midterm exam
8 Backfill operations, Backfill methods, hand filling, gravity filling, mechanical filling with conveyor, hydraulic and pneumatic filling
9 Drainage, basic groundwater hydraulics, pumps, sizing of pumps, underground mine drainage
10 Underground transport systems, discontinuous transport systems, railway transport, truck transport, excavation and transportation with LHD
11 Underground transport systems, belt conveyors
12 Underground transport systems, chain conveyors
13 Underground transport systems, gravity transportation, compressed air systems
14 Other operations at underground, lighting, communications, signaling, monitoring

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
-Yeraltı Maden Makinaları ve Mekanizasyonu, Ç.Tatar, M.K. Özfırat, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayın No:309, 1999.
-Madenlerde Nakliyat, F. Şimşir, Ç. Tatar, M.K. Özfırat, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayın No:296, 2007.
-Madencilikte Hidrolik ve Pnömatik Sistemler, Ç. Tatar, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayın No:229, 1993.Colorado, U.S.A.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lesson will be made in the form of oral presentations, visual expressions, and classroom discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 : Mid-term exam
LO 1-5 : Final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr.Kemal ÖZFIRAT
kemal.ozfirat@deu.edu.tr
office phone: +90(232) 3017539

Office Hours

Monday and Thursday at 09:00-11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 139

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15
LO.222252
LO.322252
LO.42545533
LO.52532524