• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • UAF Graduate School
    • Engineering
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • UAF Graduate School
    • Engineering
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of Scholarworks@UACommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsType

    My Account

    Login

    First Time Submitters, Register Here

    Register

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Multiphysics Modeling Of Gaseous Contaminant Transport In Deep Open Pit Mines Under Arctic Air Inversions

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Choudhury_A_2011.pdf
    Size:
    4.347Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Author
    Choudhury, Abhishek
    Chair
    Bandopadhyay, Sukumar
    Keyword
    Mining engineering
    Geological engineering
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9073
    Abstract
    Entrapment of pollutants in a deep open pit operating in a cold climate could occur due to atmospheric inversion. The process of air inversion is complex and requires thorough understanding in order to design a mine ventilation plan to remove trapped pollutants in open-pit mines operating in the arctic/sub-arctic regions. The objective of this dissertation is to develop a model using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for analysis of gaseous pollutant transport in deep, open pit mines under air inversion in arctic or subarctic regions. An Eulerian 3-D model was used for the development and validation of the CFD model of pollutant transport in an idealized open pit mine. No prior assumptions, turbulent or laminar, were considered for the nature of the flow. The 2-D model results indicated that air velocity, air temperature, diffusivity coefficient and slope angle were important controlling parameters in the inversion process. The flow regime was laminar at the origin, but as the flow progressed toward the center of the pit it changed to quasi-laminar and generated local eddies towards the pit bottom. The total energy of the quasi-laminar flow as well as the small local eddies was not enough to lift the inversion cap. However, a combination of quasi-turbulent flow and the local eddy transport resulted in removal of some of the pollutant mass from the pit bottom, either due to turbulent mixing, or due to advection. Presence of backflow may appear to be a logical mode of flow in deep open-pit mines in arctic regions. Next, the 3D model was validated using data from a selected open-pit mine. Influent air velocity, diffusivity coefficient, larger pit geometry were found to influence the retention and transport of pollutant out of the pit. The most important conclusion that was drawn from this research is that natural ventilation alone cannot remove the pollutants from an open pit or lift the inversion cap.
    Description
    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Dissertation
    Collections
    Engineering

    entitlement

     
    ABOUT US|HELP|BROWSE|ADVANCED SEARCH

    The University of Alaska is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual.

    Learn more about UA’s notice of nondiscrimination.

    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.