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Course Name	Turkish	Yeraltı Maden İşletmelerinde ve Tünellerde Metan Kontrolü
	English	Methane Control in Underground Mines and Tunnels
Course Code	MAD 627E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Abdullah Fişne
Course Objectives		1. Defining methane related problems in underground mines and tunnels 2. Teaching the measuring and sampling methods for methane control 3. Teaching the methane control methods for different kind of mining methods
Course Description		Facts about methane. Importance of methane in accordance to mine safety. Sampling for methane in mines and tunnel. Methane control at development excavations. Preventing methane ignitions at longwall faces. Coal seam degasification. Managing excess gas emissions associated with coal mine geologic features. Forecasting gas emissions for coal mine safety applications. Control of methane during coal mine shaft excavation. Explosion hazards of coal dust in the presence of methane. Methane control in metal-nonmetal mines. Preventing methane gas explosions during tunnel construction.
Course Outcomes		1. To determine methane related problems in underground mines and tunnels 2. Forecasting or modelling of gas emissions into mine 3. To measure and sample for methane control applications 4. Applying different methane control applications for different mining conditions and methods
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Textbook		Mcpherson, M. J. (1993). Subsurface Ventilation and Environmental Engineering, London, Chapman & Hall, Inc Hartman, H. L., Mutmansky, J. M. and Wang, Y. J. (1997). Mine Ventilation and Air Conditioning, New York, John Wiley & Sons
Other References		Thakur, P. (2019). Advanced Mine Ventilation Respirable Coal Dust, Combustible Gas and Mine Fire Control, USA, Woodhead Publishing-Elsevier. Kissell, F.N. (2006). Handbook for Methane Control in Mining. NIOSH, Information Circular 9486 United Nations. (2010). Best practice guidance for effective methane drainage and use in coal mines. Economic Commission for Europe Methane to Markets Partnership: ECE Energy Series, 31. Karacan, C.Ö., Ruiz, F.A., Cotè, M., Phipps, S., (2011). Coal mine methane: a review of capture and utilization practices with benefits to mining safety and to greenhouse gas reduction. International Journal of Coal Geology 86 (2–3), 121–156. Moore, T. A. (2012). Coalbed methane: A review International Journal of Coal Geology 101, 36–81.

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