The Department has been helping the industry with its expertise in solving technical problems. Consultancy services have been rendered in the areas of planning surface and underground mines, design of surface and underground excavations, slopes in opencast mines and spoil dumps for long term stability, design of support systems for bord & pillar and longwall workings, prediction of surface subsidence caused by underground coal extraction, computer-aided planning of ventilation system, blast design, underwater drilling and blasting, ground vibration and ground stability, precise surveying for mine planning, environmentally benign mine designs, and rock characterization for Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) selection. The Department has been involved in a big way in the consultancy services rendered to the mining industry for solving mine surveying problems like correlation survey, depth measurement, measurement of volumes, and connection of colliery survey to National Grid etc. Recently the Department provided a technical consultancy to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the field of surveying. It is significant to note that the Department undertook shaft pillar stabilization at Mudidih Colliery of BCCL, and was successful in its effort. Some of the difficult problems of ventilation and mine environment in deep mines, have been successfully solved.
OUR CLIENTS
- Coal Sector:
- Eastern Coalfields Ltd.
- Bharat Coking Coal Ltd.
- South Eastern Coalfields Ltd.
- Central Coalfields Ltd.
- Singareni Collieries Company Ltd.
- Power Generation:
- National Thermal Power Corporation
- National Hydro-electric Power Corporation etc.
- Iron & Steel Sector:
- Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd.
- Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd.
- Steel Authority of India Ltd.
- Metalliferous Sector:
- Mangenese Ore India Ltd.
- Uranium Corp. of India Ltd.
- Hutti Gold Mines Ltd.
- National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd.
- Other Government Organizations:
- Ministry of Defence
- Central Bureau of Investigation
- Airports Authority of India
- Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
- Ministry of Coal, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
- HSIIDC, Khanak Stone Mines Tehsil Tosham, Bhiwani
- Ministry of Mines & Petroleum, Govt of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Department of Atomic Energy
- Central Power Research Institute
- University Grants Commission
- Ministry of Environment & Forests
- Ministry of Water Resource
- Institutions:
- Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research Central
- Central Mine Planning and Design Institute
- Srinidhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
- Private Organizations:
- Jessop & Company Ltd.
- Monet Ispat Ltd.
- Jaya Bharat Equipments Ltd.
- Salzgitter Hydraulics Pvt.Ltd.
- B. L. Organics Ltd.
- Airef Engineers Ltd.
- Dharti Dredging Corporation Ltd.
- Multi Nationals :
- Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
- Adani Enterprises Ltd.
- Atlas Copco Ltd.
- BASF India Ltd., Mumbai
- Birla Corporation Ltd. Satna
- Dharti Dredging & Infrastructure Ltd., Vishakhapatnam
- DMT Consulting (P) Ltd. Kolkata
- Essar Oil Ltd., Durgapur
- Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd., Dhanbad
- Hindustan Zinc Ltd.
- IL&FS Engineering and Construction Co.Lt.
- Indu Projects Ltd. Hyderabad
- Vendanta, HZL, Zawar Group of Mines, Rajasthan
- Bharat Aluminium Co. Ltd.
- Facor, Bhadrak
- Jaya Bharat Equipment Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata
- Infosys Limited, Pune
- Jindal Power Ltd., Raigarh
- Jindal Stainless Steel, Jajpur
- Joseph Leslie Dynamiks Mfg. Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai
- KPMG Advisory Services (P) Ltd. Gurgaon
- L & T Construction, New Delhi
- Leighton Welspun Contractors Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
- MN Dastur & CO (P) Ltd., Kolkata
- Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd., Raigarh
- PWC, Hyderabad
- Sandvik Asia Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
- Tata Steel Ltd.
- BGR Mining, Hyderabad
- Hindalco Industries Ltd. Ranchi
- Jayaswal Neco Industries Ltd., Raigarh
- TESTING SERVICES
Testing of coal and rocks, mine supports, construction materials, mine gases, etc., is done on a regular basis in the laboratories of the Department.
The laboratories have facilities for determination of almost all the properties of rock that are required for planning, design and operation of mines. These facilities are used extensively by the industry.
The Department has recently developed a facility for testing of hydraulic legs for longwall roof support. This is a unique facility in the country. Further development of the facility for testing of valves and full longwall support, is in progress.
A set-up has been developed in the Department for rock characterization to provide data for selection of TBM. This is the only facility available in India.
We are now developing another unique facility consisting of artificial lung machine and related set-up for simulation of rescue operations in mines, the first of its kind in an educational institution.
Note: ISO 9001 Certification of all the Laboratories of the department is in progress.
Internal Resource generation of the Department of Mining Engineering, during 2004 – 2009, from its services to the industry
- EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:
- Continuing Education Programmes of the Department are designed with careful planning and research support. The programmes attempt to help in-service executives in updating their knowledge & know-how and upgrading their skill. Most of the programmes are conducted in-campus, but occasionally off-campus programmes in specific subject areas, are also organized at the request of the client organizations.The Department has been conducting short-term Executive Development Programmes for executives of the mining and allied industries in the following major areas:
- Rock Mechanics/Applied Rock Mechanics
- Advances in Mine Surveying Technology
- Mines Safety and Legislation
- Mechanized Tunneling
- Mine Ventilation and Environmental Engineering
- Opencast Mining
- Underground Coal Mining
- Underground Metal MiningThe Department also conducts professional skill development and other tailor-made programmes for mining and other executives of the industry as per their requirement. The 6-week programme in ‘Advances in Mine Surveying Technology’ has been prescribed by Coal India Ltd. as an essential requirement for promotion of its Surveyors beyond a certain level.
- 2004-2005:
- Total no. of projects executed during 2004 -05: 35
- Total value of consultancy projects: Rs. 48.55 Lakhs
- Total number of Executive Development Programmes offered: 08
- Total value of Executive Development programmes: Rs. 41.6 Lakhs
- Total resources generated through Industry-Institute interaction: Rs. 90.15 Lakhs
- 2005-2006:
- Total no. of projects executed during 2005 -06: 48
- Total value of consultancy projects: Rs. 79.70 Lakhs
- Total number of Executive Development Programmes offered: 06
- Total value of Executive Development programmes: Rs. 39.34 Lakhs
- Total resources generated through Industry-Institute interaction: Rs. 119.04 Lakhs
- 2006-2007
- Total no. of projects executed during 2006 -07: 96
- Total value of consultancy projects: Rs. 111.4 Lakhs
- Total number of Executive Development Programmes offered: 09
- Total value of Executive Development programmes: Rs. 77.90 Lakhs
- Total resources generated through Industry-Institute interaction: Rs. 189.3 Lakhs
- 2007-2008
- Total no. of projects executed during 2007 -08: 144
- Total value of consultancy projects: Rs. 167.5 Lakhs
- Total number of Executive Development Programmes offered: 04
- Total value of Executive Development programmes: Rs.51.90 Lakhs
- Total resources generated through Industry-Institute interaction: Rs. 219.4 Lakhs
- 2008-2009
- Total no. of projects executed during 2008 -09: 187
- Total value of consultancy projects: Rs. 204 Lakhs
- Total number of Executive Development Programmes offered: 05
- Total value of Executive Development programmes: Rs.38 Lakhs
- Total resources generated through Industry-Institute interaction: Rs. 242 Lakhs