Mining Machinery

By Prof. Khanindra Pathak | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 535

Mining Machinery is a core course for undergraduate program in Mining Engineering. This course deals with the basic construction, operation and maintenance aspects of machines used in mining and quarrying industry so that a graduate mining engineer can select the right equipment for specific job under defined geo-mining conditions and provide feed-back for design, application and upkeep of the machines.This course briefly reviews the fundamentals of machinery and covers machinery used in mining for preparing work-site by leveling, grading and compacting ground, for preparing roads, removal of over burden and transporting it to the dumping sites, preparing ground for mineral production, transporting the same to the processing sites. It also covers machines for under underground mining and evacuation of bulk materials with brief introduction of maintenance management aspects.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Undergraduate students of Mining Engineering

PREREQUISITES : Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Introduction to Electrical Engineering

INDUSTRIES SUPPORT : CIL, HCL, NALCO, SAIL, NTPC, NLCIL, HZL, Essel Mining, JSW, BEML, HEC, L&T

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Metallurgy and Material science & Mining Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	23 Jan 2023
End Date :	14 Apr 2023
Enrollment Ends :	06 Feb 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	17 Mar 2023
Exam Date :	30 Apr 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1:1. Introduction to Mining Machinery
1. Classification of Mining Machinery and characteristics of Machinery
2. Fundamentals of Machinery
2. Introduction to Machine elements
3. Mechanical transmission of power in mining machinery
4. Shafts, pulleys, gears, and gear/trains Bearing and Brakes

Week 2: 5 Belt drives, chain drives
6. Prime Movers
7. Fluid Power for Mining Machinery
8. Pneumatic Power Machinery

Week 3: 3. Wire Ropes
9. Steel Wire Rope Types and Design Calculation
10. Steel wire rope maintenance
4. Site and Rock Preparation Equipment
11. Principle of Rock-Tool Interaction
12. Dozer and Ripper

Week 4: 13. Drills
14. Scraper
15. Motor Grader
5. Surface Mining Machinery Machinery for Cyclic Excavation
16. Electric Rope Shovel

Week 5: 17. Hydraulic Excavators and Back Hoe
18. Front End Loaders
19. Hydraulic Excavators and Back Hoe
Machinery for continuous excavation
20. Bucket Wheel Excavator

Week 6: 21. Bucket Chain Excavator
22. Continuous Surface Miner
23. Dredge
6. Underground Mining Machinery
24. Loaders: Gathering arm loader, Rocker shovel, LHD, SDL

Week 7: 25. Road header
26. Underground drills and Roof bolter
27. Continuous Miner
28. Shuttle cars

Week 8: 29. Shearer
30. surface coal/ore handling plant
7. Turbo Machinery
31. Pump, fan and Compressor
32. mine pumps, pumping ranges, and fittings Fan

Week 9: 8. Transportation Machinery for Surface Mines
33. Off-Highway trucks
Case Studies
34. Belt Conveyor
Exercise and Problem Solving

Week 10: 35. Aerial Ropeways
9. Transportation Machinery for Underground Mines
36. Rope Haulage Exercise and Problem Solving

Week 11: 37. Locomotive
Exercise and Problem Solving
38. Introduction to Cage and Skip Winding
Exercise and Problem Solving

Week 12: 39. Low profile dumper
10. Types of Maintenance and Maintenance Measurements
40. Introduction to Maintenance Engineering
Quiz, Review and Interaction

Books and references

Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 of “Design of Machine Elelments” by C. S. Sharma and Kamlesh Purohit, Published by PHI, New Delhi, 2003 will be very useful for the students to practice the numerical and objective questions to enhance the fundamental understanding of the coupling, clutch, brakes and bearings.
Following web sites give useful basic information

1. www.abbysenior.com/mechanics/brakes.htm

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJa5-_ExsBE for operation of air brake

3. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-parts/brakes/brake-types gives description of hydraulic brakes

Moving the earth by Nicols and the SME handbooks will be referred by the students to understand the basic operations of the cyclic excavators.
Read Maintenance of Dragline from : Bruce Thomas Jones, 2007, Dragline Maintenance Engineering A dissertation in fulfilment of the requirements of Courses ENG4111 and 4112 Research Project towards the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Submitted November, 2007 Faculty of Engineering and Surveying University of Southern Queensland, available in the net.
Learning strategy and references will be provided for each module
The following books will be useful for the historical background of the mining machinery and to understand the trend of developments:

1. Giant Earthmovers (Crestline Series) by Keith Haddock

2. The Earthmover Encyclopedia: The Guide to Heavy Equipment of the World by Keith Haddock

Students interested in advanced learning and research will find the following book very useful:
Bucket wheel excavator by W. Durst, W. Vogt., Published 1988 by Trans Tech Publications

Instructor bio

Prof. Khanindra Pathak

IIT Kharagpur

B. Tech in Mining Machinery and M.Tech in Surface Mining from IITISM, Dhanbad, PhD in Mining Engineering from Imperial College of Science Technology Medicine, London (Commonwealth Fellowship). Professor of Department of Mining Engineering, Ex-Director of Coal India Limited, Ex-HoD of Mining Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur and University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guniea.Chairman, Eastern Regional Committee of AICTE, Kolkata, Chairman, Board Governors TEQIP-III Dibrugarh University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dibrugarh. Served at Neyveli Lignite Corporation of India Limited, CMPDIL, Coal India Limited, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. Received National Mineral Award in 2016 besides other awards.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 30 April 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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