Mine Ventilation - An Engineer's Manual
By Dr D J (Rick) Brake

This comprehensive teaching and reference manual on mine ventilation covers a wealth of topics with almost 900 pages, over 1000 illustrations and photos,100 tables, 500 study questions and 135 equations.

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Topics Include

  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Mine Ventilation – a Historical Perspective
  • Professional and Ethical Responsibilities and Key Mine Ventilation Design Processes
  • Basic Sciences Underpinning Mine Ventilation
  • Airborne Contaminant Fundamentals, Exposure Standards and Calculations
  • Gases, Dusts, Radiation and Biological Hazards
  • Mine Fires, Explosions and Emergencies
  • Noise
  • Psychrometry and Heat Transfer
  • Pressure, Resistance, Flow
  • Basic Ventilation Design Issues

  • Fans, Networks, Airway Sizing
  • Measurement of Pressure, Volume and Temperature
  • Development and Secondary Ventilation Design and Practice
  • General Mine Ventilation Design and Practice
  • Hardrock Mine Ventilation Design and Practice
  • Coal Mine Ventilation Design and Practice
  • Spontaneous Combustion, Inertisation, Pressure Balancing, Sealing and Recovery
  • Ventilation Control, Fault-finding, Auditing and New Technologies
  • Mine Heating and Cooling Processes
  • Mine Cooling Design
  • Mine Heating Design
  • Human Heat and Cold Stress

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Companion Programs

Click the links below to download the companion programs.

The companion software are MS Excel documents with VBA macros. Installation suggestions are given in section 6.12 of the book.

MVA is unable to assist any further with installation of software on your computer.

Downloads

Download VentSolve
(29-Jul-24)
Download LeakyDuct
(29-Jul-24)

Before contacting us about issues with the software, please check that you are using the most recent version. This software is provided free of charge and we are unable to offer any technical support for it, although we welcome any constructive comments.

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