| Activity: | I-STONE project |
| Descripción: | Re-engineering of the natural stone production chain through knowledge based processes, eco-innovation and new organisational paradigms. This project is co-ordinated by the italian company Pedrini SPA, and participated by 36 companies and organisms from different European countries. |
| Activity: | Study and implementation of mining emergency plans for the Asturias Region |
| Descripción: | The objective of this project, carried out in the Principality of Asturias (Spain) in co-operation with the National Institute of Silicosis and that will last up to threee years, is to check and to update the emergency and evacuation plans ot the main mining companies of Asturias. |
| Activity: | Geographic Information System of La Sagra Mining Consortium (Toledo, Spain) |
| Descripción: | Creation and treatment of the digital maps of the terrain encompassed by the municipalities in which the La Sagra Mining Consortium has operations and subsequent analysis of said information using geological, mining and environmental databases that are the support base for the Mining-Environmental Information System developed by AITEMIN. |
| Activity: | Annual Report of the Spanish Natural Stone Federation |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN has carried out in co-operation with the Spanish Natural Stone Federation (FDP) the report of the natural stone sector of the year 2004. It includes data about production and foreign trade, together with the general conclusion about the sector. |
| Activity: | Research of clay formation in La Sagra (Toledo, Spain) |
| Descripción: | Geological investigation of several research permits located in the area of La Sagra (Toledo, Spain)in order to establish its interest for the explotation of clays and detritic materials to use them in the fabrication of ceramic products. |
| Activity: | RAINOW Researching the applications of innovative open wireles technologies |
| Descripción: | The main objective of the project is to research and apply new wireless technologies in the coal mining industry. |
| Activity: | Improving staff training in mining through Virtual Reality simulators |
| Descripción: | To lend continuity to previous work completed in the field of mining machine simulators for personnel training purposes, AITEMIN is currently developing a dual arm jumbo drill based on virtual reality techniques.
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| Activity: | Detection of defects in steel wire ropes |
| Descripción: | The objective is to develop a defect detection system in steel wire ropes by non-destructive analysis techniques intended as permanent control measure. |
| Activity: | Improving of methane drainage systems - SAFETECH |
| Descripción: | The project has been developed within the frame of a European consortium coordinated by the German mining company DSK. The participation of AITEMIN in the Project has been focused on developing a new methodology to drain methane out of coal layers with a high content of methane before removing the gas towards the ventilation flues. |
| Activity: | Increasing the Efficiency of Roadway Drivages - IAMTECH |
| Descripción: | The main objective of this project is to increase the efficiency of roadway drivages in mining operations by increasing the availability of machinery, reducing the work cycles, and overlapping the excavation and the installation os structural support stages. |
| 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: | Training - Extractive industry of the natural stone |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN worked in co-operation with the Spanish Natural Stone Federation in the campaign carried out during 2005 about the training in the preparation and implementation of the Health and Safe Document in the companies of the sector which was carried out in the frame of the National Plan of Mine Security. |
| Activity: | Tunnel fan monitoring system |
| Descripción: | Design, installation and set up of a control system to monitor air jet fans installed in the tunnel network built under the Dubai International Airport as well as its integration in the tunnel monitoring and control system. |
| Activity: | Ventilation of underground shale quarries |
| Descripción: | Study the ventilation of underground shale quarries for Pizarras Expiz, S.A. The project aims to create a detailed model of the ventilation that enable to configure various exploitation scenarios and future mine developments. |
| 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: | NESMI thematic Network |
| Descripción: | The network aims to be a meeting forum among producers, equipment suppliers, consultings, associations, and research centres of the different mine branches and regions. |
| Activity: | Research on gas explosions |
| Descripción: | Study and tests on the conditions of initiation and development of methane explosions in mines, and especially those corresponding to layers of gas formed in the roof of galleries. |
| Activity: | Upgrading of Secondary Ventilation software - VenSec |
| Descripción: | Upgrading and improvement of the VENSEC computer program developed in 1995 by AITEMIN for calculating secondary ventilation circuits in mining and underground works by adapting it to the technological advances and to the new needs. |
| Activity: | Automatic microscopic analysis of coal blends |
| Descripción: | Development of an automatic system for the microscopic analysis of coal, that will enable to carry out the petrographic analysis of coal blends in power plants. |
| Activity: | Automation systems at the Carrio pit (HUNOSA) |
| Descripción: | Project design and implementation of an integral automation system for the HUNOSA Carrio Pit, encompassing the main ventilation, the drainage system, the conveyor belt transport system and the environmental control of the operations. |
| Activity: | Castilla La Mancha Mining White Book |
| Descripción: | Preparation of a White Book on the extractive activities of Castilla-La Mancha as an element of debate for the Regional Government and the industrial sectors which use mineral raw materials. |
| 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: | OSNET thematic Network |
| Descripción: | This Network purpose is to generate an interfaz organization among the different natural stone sector agents in order to improve the sector competitivity and to confirm its worldwide leadership status. |
| 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: | Clay research at Los Yébenes (Toledo) |
| Descripción: | Geological survey by means of sinking boreholes with the permission of the “Yébenes Association” mining research, in the province of Toledo, and the taking of samples of the subsoil, in order to determine their interest for the extraction of clays. |
| Activity: | Development of a shockwave tube blasting device |
| Descripción: | Development of a new blasting device for the opening of blasting using shock wave pipes. |
| Activity: | Effects of fires in mines and underground spaces |
| Descripción: | Analysis of the problem of fires in interior mines and other underground spaces, and the validation of the computing tools available for the simulation and prediction of their effects. |
| Activity: | Environmental risks in open cast coal mines |
| Descripción: | Development of software for the modelling of small open pit coal mines, as aid to planning the working and the restoration of the land. |
| Activity: | Frost resistance of natural stone |
| Descripción: | To determine an alternative method to that stated in standard UNE-EN 12371: 2002 “Test methods of natural stone. Determination of frost resistance”, currently in force. |
| Activity: | General hydrogeological study of the “La Sagra” |
| Descripción: | To complement the hydrogeological aspects of the environmental impact study of the mining plan known as “Consorcio Minero de La Sagra”. |
| Activity: | Measuring methane emissions from abandoned mines |
| Descripción: | Fine-tuning of a methodology for recording methane emissions in abandoned coal mines. |
| Activity: | Safe power supplies for explosive atmospheres |
| Descripción: | Safe power supply systems for explosive atmospheres |
| Activity: | Technical assistance on the environmental study |
| Descripción: | Technical assistance to the City Council of Puertollano (Ciudad Real) for analysing the project “Environmental Impact Study of the Mina Lourdes Mining Project”. |
| 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: | Methane purging control in single entry areas |
| Descripción: | Automation of the slow purging of methane working in single entry areas. |
| Activity: | Post mining activities in 'Minas de la Reunión' |
| Descripción: | Post mining activities in 'Minas de la Reunión' |
| Activity: | Work risks assessment in natural stone processing |
| Descripción: | The purpose of this work is to help the company managers to implement the necessary methods to improve the workers safety, by avoiding or reducing risks |
| Activity: | Analysis of corrosion effects in steel ropes |
| Descripción: | Research about corrosion in hauling steel cables |
| Activity: | Computerization of mining plans |
| Descripción: | Computerization of the task plans for mining companies in Castilla – La Mancha |
| Activity: | Hydrogeology study of an old uranium mine |
| Descripción: | Study of the hydrogeological impact of an old uranium mine (Ratones mine). |
| Activity: | Preliminary hydrogeological study of Fe Uranium mine |
| Descripción: | The uranium mine 'Mine Fe' finished the extraction in the year 2000. AITEMIN has developed in the 2001 an hydrogeological study. |
| Activity: | Safety training for mobile equipment operators |
| Descripción: | Training course on safety for operators of mobile equipment in surface mining, in the Cantabria Region. |
| Activity: | Software for detection, evaluation and prevention of risks |
| Descripción: | Computing application for detecting, evaluating and preventing of job risks. |
| Activity: | Using slagheaps and mining cavities as landfill |
| Descripción: | Utilization as a controlled dump for urban refuse of slagheaps from coal mining and cavities resulting from open cast mining. |
| Activity: | Ventilation dynamic control |
| Descripción: | Automatic system for dynamic control of ventilation to optimize it |
| Activity: | Automatic analysis of coal macerals |
| Descripción: | Design and development an automatic system for petrographic analysis of coals blended for thermal power plants. It uses image processing from a microscope and an expert system. |
| Activity: | Inventory of natural resources in Castilla–La Mancha |
| Descripción: | Inventory of natural resources of Castilla–La Mancha phase 1: ornamental rocks |
| Activity: | Methane drainage in sublevel caving coal operations |
| Descripción: | Drainage and degasification of methane thick vertical coal seams being worked by sublevel caving. |
| Activity: | Methane emissions in closed mines |
| Descripción: | Reduction of environmental pollution caused by methane emissions from abandoned mines. |
| Activity: | Risk prevention in the natural stone extraction process |
| Descripción: | Work risks prevention in the natural stone extraction industry |
| Activity: | Valorization of cutting waste from natural stone |
| Descripción: | Valorization of cutting waste originating from the natural stone preparation process. |
| Activity: | Risks evaluation in open cast mines in Cantabria |
| Descripción: | Risk evaluation in open cast mine workings in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria |
| Activity: | Alarm and Evacuation Systems |
| Descripción: | Regular development and technological up to date of the RELIA 2000 control system, in functions related to safety, from the point of view both of the carrying out of automatic emergency actions and of signing for personnel. The system is widely spread in the sector by the technological transference agreement with the company ADARO TECNOLOGÍA, S.A. |
| Activity: | Debate forums on Mining Safety |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN has a continuous collaboration with CONFEDEM in the organization and development of the debate forums, that are organized in relation with the National Plan for mining safety, about the occupational risk prevention in mining and its regulatory aspects. |
| Activity: | Evacuation trials in underground mining |
| Descripción: | Evacuation mock-ups in underground mining as a part of the workers training in relation with the actions to be carried out during evacuation in an emergency situation. The trials are also helpful to validate and improve the emergency plans at these mining operations. |
| Activity: | Georadar Technical Services |
| Descripción: | Technical assistance for detecting subsoil anomalies by means of the georadar geophysical method. |
| Activity: | Health and safety document for underground coal mines |
| Descripción: | The objective is to train the staff responsible of the elaboration of the Health and Safety document in undergound coal mining companies. |
| Activity: | Information system - mining-environment Castilla - La Macha |
| Descripción: | Development of several procedures following the Mining-environmental information system for Castilla - La Mancha already carried out by AITEMINwhich is established in the General Management of Industry and Technology of the Industry and Technology Council. |
| Activity: | Inspection activities |
| Descripción: | inspection and verification of the adaptation with regard to Royal Decree 1215/1997 “Minimum health and safety provisions for use of work equipment by workers” for various items of work equipment |
| Activity: | Measuring of drilling parameters in a rotative rig |
| Descripción: | Instrumentation of a rotative rig for the measurement and recording of drilling parameters (MWD-Measuring While Drilling), for the subsequent analysis of said information as an indirect way of characterising the materials drilled through. |
| Activity: | New mining safety regulations |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN participates in the preparation of the new mining safety regulations. |
| Activity: | RELIA 2000 mining monitorins and control systems |
| Descripción: | The RELIA 2000 is a general purpose control system to be used in potentially explosive atmospheres developed by AITEMIN for the mining industry. The system has been broadly disseminated in the sector through the technology transfer agreement signed with ADARO TECNOLOGÍA, S.A. |
| Activity: | Software for design of ventilation systems - VenPri |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN has developed, maintains and markets the VenPri program. This software lets design, simulate and calculate the main ventilation in mines and underground works. |
| Activity: | Standardization |
| Descripción: | Aitemin performs activities about standardization in levels national and international. |
| Activity: | Training activities at the Barredo Foundation |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN cooperates with the Barredo Foundation in the organization and teaching of training courses in different topics associated to the mining activity: Electrification, ventilation, use of explosives, and cables inspection. |
| Activity: | Training for the elaboration of emergency plans in coal mining |
| Descripción: | The objective is the training “in situ” to the technical staff of the mines in the preparation, implementation, management and updating of the Emergency Plans in the coal mining industry. |