Course Details
Mining and Processing of Raw Materials (M)
Academic Year 2024/25
BJB003 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Utilization of mineral raw materials in the building industry, protection of the environment.
2. Physical and mechanical properties of rocks, tests of aggregates, utility properties of rocks and effectiveness of exploitation.
3. Project of preparation, development and exploitation in the quarry, protected area.
4. Exploitation space, utilization of rocks, technology of raw materials mining.
5. Raw material resources, striping, mining methods for rocks.
6. Mass blasts, blast design, facilities for blasting work.
7. Muck transport, vehicle fleet, technology of treatment.
8. Technological treatment of raw material, disintegration, principles of machinery for treatment.
9. Grinding, grinding curve, effectiveness of the grinding process.
10. Technological parameters of grinding plants, circulation number, effectiveness of grinding.
11. Special preparation procedures, micro-grinding, separation.
12. Classification, raw material separation, grist parameters, recycling of building waste, grounding, treatment, sieving. Recultivaton after excavation. Environmental impact, primary material sources.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction seminar.
2. The design and dimensions of waste materials, muck.
3. The design and sizing of internal transport.
4. Explosive processes of explosives.
5. The dimensions of the chamber blasting.
6.–7. The dimensions of the aperture blasting.
8. Video examples of rock blasting works for the extraction of raw materials construction and demolition.
9. Excursion to the quarry.
10. Examples of reclamation after open-pit mining.
11. Credit test.
12. Checking the protocols, granting the credit.