The book is useful for mining, civil and mechanical engineers involved in enterprises requiring heating, ventilating or airconditioning. The treatment reflects the move away from traditional methods of system design towards computer based techniques. - Australian Mineral Foundation

• 1 Background to subsurface ventilation and environmental engineering.- One Basic Principles of Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics.- 2 Introduction to fluid mechanics.- 3 Fundamentals of steady flow thermodynamics.- Two Subsurface Ventilation Engineering.- 4 Subsurface ventilation systems.- 5 Incompressible flow relationships.- 6 Ventilation surveys.- 7 Ventilation network analysis.- 8 Mine ventilation thermodynamics.- 9 Ventilation planning.- 10 Fans.- Three Gases in the Subsurface.- 11 Gases in subsurface openings.- 12 Methane.- 13 Radiation and radon gas.- Four Heat and Humidity.- 14 Psychrometry: The study of moisture in air.- 15 Heat flow into subsurface openings.- 16 Simulation of climatic conditions in the subsurface.- 17 Physiological reactions to climatic conditions.- 18 Refrigeration plant and mine air conditioning systems.- Five Dust.- 19 The hazardous nature of dusts.- 20 The aerodynamics, sources and control of airborne dust.- Six Fires and Explosions.- 21 Subsurface fires and explosions.

The book is useful for mining, civil and mechanical engineers involved in enterprises requiring heating, ventilating or airconditioning. The treatment reflects the move away from traditional methods of system design towards computer based techniques. - Australian Mineral Foundation

• 1 Background to subsurface ventilation and environmental engineering.- One Basic Principles of Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics.- 2 Introduction to fluid mechanics.- 3 Fundamentals of steady flow thermodynamics.- Two Subsurface Ventilation Engineering.- 4 Subsurface ventilation systems.- 5 Incompressible flow relationships.- 6 Ventilation surveys.- 7 Ventilation network analysis.- 8 Mine ventilation thermodynamics.- 9 Ventilation planning.- 10 Fans.- Three Gases in the Subsurface.- 11 Gases in subsurface openings.- 12 Methane.- 13 Radiation and radon gas.- Four Heat and Humidity.- 14 Psychrometry: The study of moisture in air.- 15 Heat flow into subsurface openings.- 16 Simulation of climatic conditions in the subsurface.- 17 Physiological reactions to climatic conditions.- 18 Refrigeration plant and mine air conditioning systems.- Five Dust.- 19 The hazardous nature of dusts.- 20 The aerodynamics, sources and control of airborne dust.- Six Fires and Explosions.- 21 Subsurface fires and explosions.

The book is useful for mining, civil and mechanical engineers involved in enterprises requiring heating, ventilating or airconditioning. The treatment reflects the move away from traditional methods of system design towards computer based techniques. - Australian Mineral Foundation

• 1 Background to subsurface ventilation and environmental engineering.- One Basic Principles of Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics.- 2 Introduction to fluid mechanics.- 3 Fundamentals of steady flow thermodynamics.- Two Subsurface Ventilation Engineering.- 4 Subsurface ventilation systems.- 5 Incompressible flow relationships.- 6 Ventilation surveys.- 7 Ventilation network analysis.- 8 Mine ventilation thermodynamics.- 9 Ventilation planning.- 10 Fans.- Three Gases in the Subsurface.- 11 Gases in subsurface openings.- 12 Methane.- 13 Radiation and radon gas.- Four Heat and Humidity.- 14 Psychrometry: The study of moisture in air.- 15 Heat flow into subsurface openings.- 16 Simulation of climatic conditions in the subsurface.- 17 Physiological reactions to climatic conditions.- 18 Refrigeration plant and mine air conditioning systems.- Five Dust.- 19 The hazardous nature of dusts.- 20 The aerodynamics, sources and control of airborne dust.- Six Fires and Explosions.- 21 Subsurface fires and explosions.