| Activity: | Engineered barrier Emplacement Experiment in clayish formations - EB |
| Descripción: | The Barrier Emplacement (BE) project started in the year 2000 at the underground laboratory of Mont Terri (Switzerland). The objective of the project is to demonstrate a new concept in the field of engineered barriers for the underground storage of radioactive wastes using compactec bentonite blocks and a granular material made from bentonite pellets. |
| Activity: | Ventilation test in clayish formations - VE Experiment |
| Descripción: | To observe and analyse the desaturation-resaturation processes in clayish rock formations caused by gallery ventilation and their impact on its mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties. The assay is performed in a 1.2 m micro tunnel at the Mont Terri underground rock laboratory (Switzerland). |
| Activity: | Digital voice and data radiofrequency transmission |
| Descripción: | Development of a digital voice and data transmission system used to control mobile machinery that integrates intercom systems using wireless technology and data transmission technology through low voltage power networks. Another objective is to integrate voice transmission in digital format in the field bus systems used in the mining industry, improving digitally their quality and inteligibility. |
| Activity: | Gas explosion active barrier systems |
| Descripción: | Design and test active systems capable of serving as barriers to hold back methane explosions. |
| Activity: | Improvement of copper based data transmission systems in coa |
| Descripción: | Improvement in the efficiency of transmission systems on telephone lines in mines, increasing the data transmission speed in order to be able to carry integrated services (voice and data) on a single physical channe |
| Activity: | Backfill and Plug Test - BPT |
| Descripción: | Full scale test of different gallery backfill materials, compacted “in situ”, along with a gallery sealing plugat the Äspö underground laboratory (Sweden). |
| Activity: | Compact packaging machine |
| Descripción: | Development of a compact, economical and flexible machine that enables the consumer goods manufacturers to make by themselves personalized cardboard boxes |
| Activity: | Improvement of cooper based data transmission systems |
| Descripción: | Improvement of the capacity of the data transmision systems currently used in undergound mining so that advanced functions could be used with the same cabling. |
| Activity: | Potential new applications of georadar |
| Descripción: | The purpose of this activity is the investigation on the possibilities for the application of georadar techniques for the identification of different kinds of irregularities in the subsoil. |
| Activity: | Research on auxiliary ventilation |
| Descripción: | To improve the knowledge of factors influencing the ventilation of single-entry zones and to characterise the noise to which workers are subjected when they are in the vicinity of the fans. |
| Activity: | Safe power supplies for explosive atmospheres |
| Descripción: | Safe power supply systems for explosive atmospheres |
| Activity: | TOPIC- Technically Optimised Piling Concept |
| Descripción: | Development of a new system for the construction of piles with improvements in the quality of execution, environmental impact and in costs of the operation. |
| Activity: | Control of mobile equipment in underground mining |
| Descripción: | Development of a remote control system for mobile machines, applicable to coal shearers, with wireless transmission of data. |
| Activity: | Materials for diaphragm walls - ECOMAT |
| Descripción: | Improvement of materials and techniques for the construction of diaphragm walls for the confinement of polluted zones (ECOMAT project). |
| Activity: | On-going training - Project PANCECS |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN has participated in the Pan-European Project for On-Going Professional Development and Competency Standards in Construction and Engineering (PANCECS). |
| Activity: | Piezometers for measurement of pore pressure in clay |
| Descripción: | Testing and validation of piezometers installed in probes with little diameter for the measurement of pore pressures in clays. |
| Activity: | Preliminary project for fire test tunnel |
| Descripción: | Preliminary design of a tunnel for testing fires and ventilation at full scale. |
| Activity: | Measurement of fissuring in natural stone with ultrasonics |
| Descripción: | Measurement of the state of fissuring of natural stone blocks by means of ultrasonic techniques. |
| Activity: | Georadar Technical Services |
| Descripción: | Technical assistance for detecting subsoil anomalies by means of the georadar geophysical method. |