Mine Disasters and Mine Rescue - Softcover

M.A. Ramlu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8173715734 ISBN 13: 9788173715730

Publisher: Orient Blackswan, 2006

Synopsis

Mine Disasters and Mine Rescues provides a fairly comprehensive treatment of the subject of mine disasters and mine rescue. It draws on the author s nearly thirty years of teaching and research experience and his abiding interest in mine safety, It deals with the hazards constantly posed by fires, explosions, coal and gas outbursts and inundations in mines. The text on mine rescue which makes the book a self-contained reference manual has been re-written to accommodate recent developments in mine rescue equipment in India and abroad.

About this title

About the Author:

M A Ramlu was Head, Department of Mining Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for nearly twenty years, Dean of Sponsored Research and Consultancy and Deputy Director and Acting Director of the same institute from which he retired in 1987. He pioneered postgraduate courses, mining research and continuing education programmes at mining departments in the country. He is at present a member of the Development of Mineral Resources & Technology Upgradation Fund of the Government of Andhra Pradesh and a member of the Technical Committee, AP Pollution Control Board, Government of Andhra Pradesh. His main interests are in the area of spontaneous combustion of coal, explosibility of coal dust, mine rescue apparatus and coal mine planning and mechanization.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orient Blackswan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8173715734
• ISBN 13: 9788173715730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460