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Mine Environment Laboratory |
- High Volume Air Sampler for ambient air quality monitoring
- Personal Dust Sampler for personal air quality assessment
- Multigas Detector for testing of ambient air quality in terms of gases pollutants.
- Whole Body Vibration Instrument for assessment of ergonometric factor of mechanical vibration for the HEMM operators
- Underground Ventilation Survey Equipment
- Anemometer for determination velocity and director of air
- Lux Meter for determination of lamination level in working zones.
- Sound Level Meter (LA 500) for determination of sound levels
- Orsat Apparatus - used to analyse a gas sample (typically fossil fuel flue gas) for its oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide content.
- Gravimetric Dust Sampler
- Computerized weather Monitoring Station
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Rock Mechanics & Ground Control Laboratory |
- Concrete Testing Machine - used for determination of strength parameters of rock specimen
- Universal Testing Machine- used for determination of strength parameters of rock specimen
- Protodyankov Index Apparatus –used for determination of abrasive nature of the rock samples
- Point Load Index Apparatus – used for determination of insitu compressive strength of rock
- Shear Block – used for determination of shear strength of rock specimen
- Tri-axial Cell – used to determine the confined compressive strength of rock specimen
- Ultra-Sonic Pulse Velocity Apparatus – used to determine the longitudinal & shear waves velocity, and elastic constant of rock.
- Drillability Index Apparatus - to determine the drillability nature of rock (Percussive and rotary drilling)
- Creep Rig – to analyse the fatigue nature of the rockmass
- Slake Durability Index Apparatus – to determine the weathering nature of rockmass
- Shear Strength of Soil Apparatus – to determine the cohesion and friction nature of the soil
- Rock-Bolt Anchorage Pull Test Apparatus – to determine the pull strength (or) anchorage strength of rockbolt
- Aggregate Impact Strength Apparatus – to determine the aggregate strength of the road material
- Los Angeles Abrasion Test Apparatus – to determine the abrasive nature of the rock
- Core Drilling Machine – to obtain the core sample of required size for analysis
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Besides, the laboratory has facilities for soil testing, coring, cutting and polishing of rock samples, as well as, equipment for determining cuttability, drillability, abrasivity, weatherability, and other properties of rocks.
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Mineral Processing Laboratory (Pilot Plant Mode) |
- Dry Magnetic Separator
- Jaw Crusher
- Ball Grinding Mill
- Sieve shaker
- Hertz Jig
- Wilfley Table
- Riffle Sampler
- Froth flotation Cell
- Electromagnetic separator
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Computer Applications in Mining Laboratory |
- Matlab
- RocScience – Bundle (Slide2, RS2, Slide3, Settle3, Dips, RSPile, EX3, CPillar, RocTopple, RocData, RS3, RocFall, RocPlane, Rocsupport, SWedge, and UnWedge)
- 3 DEC Numerical Modelling
- Autocad
- Stat ease – Statistical Design of Experiments (Design Expert)
- Whole-Body Vibration Experiment
- SPSS
- ANSYS
- Programming language software
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Mine Planning and Survey |
- Total Survey Station, Pentax ATS102
- Workstation, HP XW 4200
- Global Positioning System, Trimble
- Levelling equipment
- Theodolites
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Mining Machinery Laboratory |
Working models of winding shaft, rope haulage, Longwall face, demonstrative models of rope-cappels, head gears, suspension gear, safety hooks and bell plates, types of wire ropes, heavy
earth moving machine models like dumper, bull dozer, front-end loader, etc., electrical cables, coal drill, jack hammers, conveyor belting, etc.
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Advanced Rock Blasting Laboratory |
Fragblast softwares, for rock fragmentation and distribution analysis using the digital images acquired by a video/still camera. Vibration recorders and sophisticated chip based micro seismographs,
to record blast vibration levels and analysis for peak particle velocity, dominant frequency, FFT analysis and safe vibration levels. Near- field acceleration measuring setup, for understanding rock-explosive interaction
for blast damage assessment.
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- Vibration recorders / seismographs, to record blast vibration levels and analysis for peak particle velocity, dominant frequency, FFT analysis and safe vibration levels (MiniMate plus,
MiniMate Blaster and NOMIS Seismograph) – for close and far field monitoring.
- Fragmentation analysis software – FRAGALYST 4.0 version, a product of Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad for rock fragmentation and distribution analysis
using the digital images acquired by a video camera.
- GIS Softwares, for extracting and processing the information from mine plans and to update them with the latest information.
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