JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-Requisites

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Course Objectives:

• To impart knowledge on hardware and software issues concerned with computers in mining industry.
• To develop algorithms and programs on various mining related problems
• To impart knowledge on high-end simulation methodologies
• To study modern techniques on solving mining problems.

Course Outcome

The students will have basic programming knowledge and its applications on

various mining related problems and familiarity with hardware and software issues during development of programs. They will also have a perspective on high-end simulation methodologies and modern techniques to solve mining problems.

UNIT - I

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS: Configuration of computers and servers, evolution of operating systems; Networking Concepts, MIS Concepts – Cloud computing / grid computing in mining, Big Data analytics.

UNIT - II

PROGRAMMING & DBMS CONCEPTS: Algorithm, flow charts and Programming of mining application like pillar design, blast design, subsidence, - Database and Relational database - development of software packages for mining companies – forms, queries and reports, Enterprise resource planning for material managements

UNIT - III

COMPUTERISED MINE PLANNING: Introduction of Geostatistics, Reserve Estimation, kriging, block modelling and orebody modelling, Optimization and mine design, mine scheduling.

UNIT - IV

PROBLEM SOLVING – APPLICATIONS IN MINING: Ventilation network analysis; support design, Applications of CAD in mining, GIS in Mining, online and offline monitoring and control, TDS, FEM and CFD Concepts and basics of modeling and simulation.

UNIT - V

RECENT TRENDS & MINING SOFTWARE: Artificial intelligence, expert system, neural networks, robotics and their applications in mining Functionalities of mine planning software, fragmentation software, and numerical software applicable to mining. Case studies of mining applications

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Kadri Dagdelen, Editor, Computer Applications in the Minerals Industries, Colorado School of Mines, 1999.
• 2. Ramani R.V., et al. Computers in Mineral Industry, Oxford and IBH Publishers, 1994.

REFERENCES:

• 1. R.V. Ramani – Editor, APCOM Proceedings Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry, The Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc., 1996 R18 B.TECH MINING ENGG. III YEAR
• 2. Fytas, K. and Singhal, R.K. Computers Applications in Mineral Industry, A. A. Balkema Publication, 1988.
• 3. E Balagurusamy , Fundamentals of Computers , Mc Graw Hills Publication, 2009
• 4. Basandra S K, Computers Today Fourth Edition, Galgotia Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2004 R18 B.TECH MINING ENGG. III YEAR