Sr. Design Project Class

1. Sr. Design Project Class 2014

2. How the Class Works • This is not a lecture and train class • You will be attempting to put together things learned over your training into a single project • Lectures will be provided when topics are needed • Guest lectures will be provided to train you in software use • Carlson will be presenting • Vnet will be presenting • The other presenters – You!

3. Generalized Lecture Pattern • Start of the week • I explain goals for the week • End of the week • You make oral presentations • And turn in required maps and writings • At the end of class • Middle of the week • Special topics if needed • Otherwise – work on your projects

4. Work Warning • Senior Design is extremely work intensive • As much as 50% of your work this semester could be in this class • Some tasks are tedious and laborious • You will likely spend many midnight hours cursing Dr. Paul because things aren’t working out for you. • Mitigating the work load • You get my sympathy – but not a break • You work in teams • You don’t have to do the whole project yourself

5. Team Work and Team Jerk • Mine designs involve many inter-related projects • Failure to work in a timely manner can stop the progress of other team members • Failure to “do your part” causes resentment of others • Tending to know laborious difficulties of your own tasks and not others makes everyone feel they are doing a greater % than they really are • If it gets out of line (such as some people working long hours and others waiting for estimates from vendors) will call for action.

6. How is Sr. Design Graded • Grades are fixed percentage • 90% A • 80% B • 70% C • 60% D • Do you really want to discuss whats down here?

7. Where Do Points Come From • 60% from weekly projects • 15% from final oral report • 15% from final written report • 10% from performance evaluation

8. The Weekly Project • Step #1 – I Identify goals for the week • Your group sub-divides tasks and sends me the task division • Your submissions • Oral Presentation of your work (will be 30% of grade) • You submit your written assignments (will be 30% of grade) • You will not always have one • Individual and Group Identity • Group grade makes 25% to 50% (varies with how much the project work demanded coordination) on oral presentations • Group grade makes 0% to 50% on written submissions

9. The Final Projects • Oral and Written Final Project • 50% by group • 50% by individual • Written sections should have author name

10. Performance Evaluation (10%) • My hammer in case someone gets lazy • What has been done with it • I may feel everyone worked hard and just give a full 10% to everyone • I may feel most everyone has worked hard but one person hasn’t performed • I will give varying percentages to different people • I may put it out for peer feedback • Don’t tick your peers off! • In abuse cases the group clusters on percentages and the lazy peoples work % is way out of line with everyone else • I may split points between my evaluation and peer evaluation.

11. Tasks for Now • Choose your team leader • Good generalized knowledge of mining so he/she can balance work-load (and pull things together) • Good sense of organization • Charisma – sometimes they will have to ask people to do things they don’t want to • Firm but Fair – can push for deadlines, persuade when needed, kick-butt in extremes • Look for other skills • Who can do maps and Carlson work? • Who can read washability curves and simulate prep plants? • Who has knowledge or equipment and connections to get quotes and estimates? • Who are your good writers?

12. Once Upon A Time • Golden Goat Mining • Obtained mineral rights on about 24 square miles of land believed to contain unusually large coal reserves due to multi-seam potential • They agreed with landowners to maximize recovery • Land owners agreed to allow subsidence • They went in with a 55 hole semi-grid drilling program • Where recommended by geologists they did limited additional drilling specifically to delineate features of interest • Where something looked troubling they hired expert opinions

13. The Land is in Crawford County Illinois

14. It is Located South East of Palestine Tract about 4 miles NS 6 mile EW

15. Drilling Confirms • 4 minable coal seams • Unusually thick Danville #7 coal • Rather weak, low BTU, high ash and sulfur, and chlorine • May have good sulfur washability • Consistent minable Herrin #6 coal • Good quality with low ash and low chlorine • Sulfur depends on top • Thick high BTU Springfield #5 coal • Metallurgical Grade Cochester #2 coal

16. Challenges • Multi-seam mining • Faults and Dikes • Washout channels • Roof conditions • Underclay floors

17. What Will You Do • Evaluate prices and qualities required for coal • Evaluate ways of getting coal to market • Evaluate available labor forces • Build models of coal quality and thickness together with roof and floor conditions • Use rock mechanics principles and formulas to size openings, pillars, panels, and support • Size markets, mine production, labor forces, and labor schedules

18. More to Do • Plan mine layouts, and areas to be mined in various time periods • Select equipment, organize crews, estimate mining costs • Plan ventilation including sizing of fans (ie- this is a quantitative not just qualitative plan) • Plan drainage networks • Design coal preparation plant and simulate its performance in producing various products • Identify type of coal refuse facilities, size, development and cost

19. Still More • Design surface facilities shops and warehouses • Design loadouts • Estimate Costs • Develop Cash Flows • Evaluate Economics • Include Everything with texts, maps, illustrations in a final report (likely to be hundreds of pages long)

20. What to Start First • Take your drill hole data – get it in a Carlson compatible format – read it in and build a model of the coal resource in Carlson (guaranteed to be lots of tedious work) • Identify customers in the area – find routes to market and estimate shipping costs • Identify climate conditions and flooding tendencies for Wabash River • Identify demographics of local populations and available labor force and driving distances