Abstract
Ventilation network analysis deals with complex working procedures to calculate the air currents flowing in the various meshes or branches of a mine network. It involves mathematical method of analyzing mine resistance to carry out ventilation planning, management, and control. Network analysis is a generic term covering group of methods that are used in cases to analyze and optimize airflow in a network of interconnected and related meshes that have some connection between one another. As central ventilation method is practiced in underground coal mines in place of boundary ventilation method, the ventilation network analysis covers large number of combinations of airway resistances, fans, and regulators that will provide a desired quantity and direction of air flow. The advances in computing techniques have made ventilation network analysis rapid, flexible, and easy to use so that various designs of experiments can be investigated and solved for selecting the optimal solution.
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Jha, A.K. (2017). Ventilation Network Analysis. In: Selection of Main Mechanical Ventilators for Underground Coal Mines. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56859-1_2
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