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.