Specific knowledge is required to achieve the Performance Criteria of this unit, particularly for its application in the various circumstances in which this unit may be used. This includes knowledge of the following, as required to apply and monitor the gas management plan: legislative and site requirements for ventilation, including air quality, air quantity, maximum/minimum values, control and distribution, flammable gas limits, ventilation fan, gas monitoring inspections and recording/reporting the methods of panel gas management and their application/limitations, including forcing and exhausting, homotropal and antitropal (and in conjunction with these, the use of goaf bleed or back return), auxiliary fans, coursed ventilation (narrow side/wide side), recirculation, machine mounted scrubber systems, ducted systems, compressed air venturis and bleeders the impact of mining techniques and mine and panel layout on panel gas management the impact of differing geological features and conditions on gas management, including faults, dykes, intrusions and strata deformities the impact of coal characteristics and coal seam gradients on mine gas management mine gases; the types and their characteristics, sources, physiological effects and methods of detection mine fires; the types, sources of ignition, possible impacts on gas management mine explosions; the types, ignition sources and possible effects on gas management pressure changes; causes and the impacts on gas management heat/humidity; the sources and factors which may impact on gas management mine fans; fan types, applications and limitations gas control devices; the types, purposes, design criteria and specifications, distribution/placement criteria and limitations fixed gas monitoring systems types, uses and limitations portable monitoring equipment, types, uses and limitations computer-based systems used for mine gas analysis the development requirements and processes of the gas management plan types, characteristics, purposes and responses to alarms and trigger points/levels ventilation surveys, the types, frequency and method for conducting, including pressure/temperature/gas audit and review processes and techniques emergency procedures and disaster plan responses/measures the general use and application of ventilation theory, including gas laws, including Charles and Boyle natural ventilation Coward's Triangle Graham's Ratio Ellicott's Triangle gas make air quantity measurement control device leakage duct leakage mine and goaf ventilation systems the impact of water on ventilation site environmental monitoring requirements inertisation techniques general purpose and application of sling psychrometer, anemometer, velometer the general effects of velocity pressure, duct and stopping leakage strata geology, including coal seam gradient, moisture content, friability, the porous features of the coal seam, stresses and intrusions, and its impact on gas drainage gas surveys; the types, frequency and method for conducting, including pressure/quantity/temperature and gas impacts of intersecting holes and hole design in-seam drilling techniques the impact of differing geological features and conditions on outburst, including faults, dykes, intrusions and strata deformities outburst indicators core sampling techniques training systems emergency response and evacuation planning processes and techniques |