Ventilation Requirement for Electric Vehicles in Underground Hard Rock Mines - A Conceptual Study

In the past five years, electric power price in Australia has increased significantly and is likely to continue to increase in the foreseeable future. This can make a mine uneconomic to operate. One option to reduce underground mine power consumption is to reduce ventilation power consumption. The e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kerai, Mahesh, Halim, Adrian
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32034