Underground Ventilation: Proceedings of the 19th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium ((NAMVS 2023, 17-22 June 2023, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)
About this ebook
The Mine Ventilation Symposium series has always been a premier forum for ventilation experts, practitioners, educators, students, regulators, and suppliers from around the world to exchange knowledge, ideas, and opinions. Underground Ventilation features sixty-seven selected technical papers in a wide range of ventilation topics including: auxiliary and primary systems, mine fans, case studies, computational fluid dynamics applications, diesel particulate control, electric machinery, mine cooling and refrigeration, mine dust monitoring and control, mine fires and explosion prevention, mine gases, mine heat, mine ventilation and automation, occupational health and safety, renewable/alternative energy, monitoring and measurement, network analysis and optimization, and planning and design.
About the author
Dr. Purushotham Tukkaraja is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, and the Director of MSHA State Grants Program in the Mining Engineering and Management Department at South Dakota Mines in Rapid City, South Dakota. Dr. PT is also an ABET Program Evaluator, Qualified Professional (QP) Member of Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. Past-President of the Black Hills Chapter of ISEE. He serves on the Underground Ventilation Committee (UVC) Executive Board; he is an organizing committee member for the Best in the West Drill and Blast Conference, and International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE) annual conference. He serves as an Associate Editor, an Editorial Board Member, and a Reviewer for several mining engineering journals.
