541-0513/01 – Prospecting and Drilling Activities (PVP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Geological Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Martin Klempa, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Petr Bujok, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 1996/1997 | Year of cancellation | 2008/2009 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The main goal of this subject is to teach the students to describe and outline basic methods of geological research, to name individual kinds of boreholes and label methods which are used for their realization, and also to relate several types of these boreholes according to their purpose. On the basis of theoretical knowledge, obtained during study of this subject students have to know how to classify individual types of exploratory drilling works and to explain basic diferences in the construction of all exploratory borehole types. The student must be able to define individual fields of drilling work utilization with the aid of their theoretical study and within the frame of the practical and computation tutorials to apply obtained knowledge by solving scheduled tasks. The students develop step by step their konwledge obtained within the frame of the compulsory literature education and by use of recommended study literatury too. They have to know how to analyse and recollet material and immaterial information and to investigate it according to the importance degree. So created categorization of information they can use both during their study (inclusions, exams) and also in their next practical experience.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The subject offers a total review of the fundamental exploration methods, kinds of exploratory boreholes and technical means used for the realization of exploratory activities with a view to quarry drilling machines and drilling in conditions of the quarries. The significant part of the scheme of this subject is paid to drilling making use of the down-the-hole hammers, their construction and application methods in the course of their drilling activity. The students have also possibility to get acquainted with the new unconventional drilling methods used by borehole drilling in various spheres of human activity. The significant part of lectures is paid to some important problems connected with the realization of drilling works such as borehole (well) information acquirement and its evaluation, elementary space characteristics of the borehole course, directional drilling and underground drilling.
Compulsory literature:
Mazáč, J. (2005): Drilling Technologies, university mimeographed; VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Publishing Centre of VŠB-TU Ostrava
Pinka, J., Wittenberger, G., Engel, J. (2007): Borehole Mining, university textbook, Publishing Centre/AMS, F BERG TU in Košice
Recommended literature:
Chugh, P.C. (1991): High Technology in Drilling and Exploration, New Dehli, India
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to the subject
2. Basic exploratory methods – geological mapping, prospection for heavy minerals, geochemical methods, geophysical methods, exploration in the mine environment, exploratory boreholes
3. Types of boreholes and drilling methods – geological boreholes, exploratory boreholes, operational and technical boreholes
4. Drilling technology – types of drilling rigs (in quarry environment), main operational components of drilling rigs
5. Drillability of rocks – types of drilling tools, drill string and its assembly
6. Drilling works in quarry environment - down the hole (DTH) and top hammer air drilling, technology of drilling in quarry environment
7. Types of drilling fluids and their usage
8. Design of boreholes for exploratory purposes – casing and cementation
9. Types of samples obtained from borehole – data collected inside the borehole
10. Basic three-dimensional characteristics of borehole shaft, borehole curvature causes, directional drilling
11. Drilling in mine environment – technology and technique
12. Modern exploratory methods – unconventional drilling and extraction techniques, non excavation methods, microtunneling methods
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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