Mini Projects

for Online Learning of Mining Machinery Construction, Operation and Mainteance

Do you know What does an engineer do? Engineers design, evaluate, develop, test, modify,
install, inspect and maintain a wide variety of products and systems.

If you want to be an engineer with self-respect as engineer, your 3rd year is the most crucial
period of becoming an engineer. An engineering job involves carrying out a project. A "project"
consists of a coordinated series of activities or tasks performed by engineers, designers,
drafters and others from one or more engineering disciplines or departments.

You can become an effective engineer by taking your learning also as an engineering project.

Project-based learning is  a method in which students learn a range of skills and subject
matter in the process of creating their own projects. ... They work in groups and bring their
own experiences, abilities, learning styles and perspectives to the project.

So are you going to take a mini project for learning mining machinery?

To take up a project:

1. Find out what interests you: read some introductory materials about machines in mining
and mineral industry, be aware of the problems and challenges.
2. Decide an area and define a topic
3. Define the objectives of your project and what background knowledge is required to do
the work
4. Investigate and carryout the work
5. Prepare a report and summaries what have you learnt or achieved how can you improve
it or find out if your project study has opened up a new area of interest for your future
work.

You will have to discuss with your teacher, instructor or contacts who knows the subject and can
guide you to start. Try to be lucky to have instructions to start. Sometimes, your seniors can
help you more than they can help your teacher. Develop your peer group and find who are the
people having same interest as yours.

Select a topic within 5 days

Topics for project

1. Determining engine power requirement for a mine truck

2. Energy accounting in a dozer operation-what the diesel do?
3. Cooling system of IC engine.
4. Exhaust conditioning and noise control of automobiles.
5. Tires of heavy duty trucks on off highway roads.
 6. Design of drilling bit for optimal performance
7. Engineering materials for construction of machines
8. Wear and tear of machine elelments.
9. Lubrication in machines and its importance.
10. Selection of a type of excavators for a given job.
11. Key performance indicator of mining machinery
12. Factors affecting Performance of blast hole drills
13. Design of an on line conveyor belt joint inspecting device
14. Design of an on-belt quality assessment device
15. On line steel cord belt monitoring system
16. Design of a system for online aggregate size measurement on a conveyor belt (ore size
distribution by image analysis)
17. Safety analysis of a conveyor belt system
18. Selection of belt conveyor material by multi criteria decision making
19. Design of fire protection system for a conveyor belt
20. Cost benefit analysis of RopeCon in iron ore transportation from Barbill area
21. Maintainability of L&T continuous surface miner
22. Cutting drum design for continuous surface miner
23. Energy audit continuous surface miner
24. Condition monitoring of dragline
25. Fault tree analysis of a hydraulic excavator
26. Study of hydraulic transportation of coal
27. Effect of cutting tool design on rippability of rock
28. Selection of belt conveyor drive and control for underground mining applications
29. Assessment of safety and hazards in bulk material handling system in underground mines
30. Assessment of safety and hazards in bulk material handling system in opencast mines
31. Assessment of safety and hazards in bulk material handling system in mineral processing plant
32. Application of mechatronics in mining machinery: recent development and scopes
33. Study of mutability of CSM’s drum
34. Selection of Machinery for coal washing
35. Classifiers for coal handling plant
36. Selection of crusher for iron ore beneficiation plant.
37. Selection of screens in ore beneficiation plant
38. Bond graph modeling of dump truck
39. Development of power calculation for bulk material handling system
40. Techno-economic performance analysis of mining machinery (e.g. CSM, Dragline, High Capacity
Hydraulic Excavator etc.)

Khanindra Pathak