Electrical Engineering In Mines

A consideration of the early development of electricity in a major British coalfield and an investigation into how such a well-established, labour-intensive industry upon which the prosperity of the local community depended was able to respond to the challenge of new technology.

Both mining and electrical engineers need to bear in mind the following specific requirements of electrical applications in mining. 1) Economy of electrical plant and equipment in relation to the cost price of the extracted mineral ores, governed by the specific exploitation conditions, 2) Reliability of electrical plant and equipment for extractive operations, operational efficiency, and plant and personnel safety. 3) Special safeguards to counteract the additional hazards posed by the use of electric power, and by electrical phenomena in general. The book has been written along these lines, dealing with those topics which highlight the aspects of electrical engineering of relevance for mining engineers and aspects of mining operations that electrical engineers need, to meet the above-mentioned basic requirements governing the introduction and use of electrical plants and systems in mines.This book is intended as a text book and will be of use to students, and colleges as well as to mining and electrical engineers.

Excerpt from Electrical Mining Installations This volume has been written especially for colliery engineers and contractors engaged in the installation of electrical plant for mining purposes. The first chapter deals briefly with the elementary principles Of electrical engineering, special reference being made to alternate current working. Many readers will already have a sufficient knowledge of these principles and for them the volume will be a guide to the application Of electric power for mining work. Readers who are engineers but not essentially electrical engineers will find this opening chapter Of service, and it is hoped that the notes on alternate current working will clear up the many abstruse points on this subject and give a working knowledge Of the terms and quantities involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.