Category: Noise Management

ENVIROSUITE BREAKS NEW GROUND WITH ITS NOISE AND VIBRATION MONITORING TECH

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ENVIROSUITE BREAKS NEW GROUND WITH ITS NOISE AND VIBRATION MONITORING TECH

Open-cut mines find themselves at the mercy of changes in weather. The effectiveness of noise, vibration, dust and air quality monitoring can be the difference between continuing or suspending operations. Today’s mining assets require highly accurate data and deep insights about changing environmental conditions to allow operators to use active situational awareness and make better informed decisions at any time. Envirosuite is one company helping mines and heavy industrial operations unlock hidden asset value, while improving quality of life for both their workforce, and neighbouring communities. As a pioneer in environmental management software, the company delivers real-time data modelling solutions that allow mines to forecast weather risk, plan blasting activities ahead of time, drive efficiency gains, and maintain environmental compliance. Noise and vibration are two…

Joint Task Force

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Joint Task Force

Mining in general, and particularly mining underground, can create potentially hazardous environments. Whether it is from noise and vibration that can negatively impact on workers or lead to accelerated wear in plant and equipment, or air columns that contain particles or gases that can ignite or explode, there is always a need for quality vibration, noise, heat and expansion products that mitigate those risks. All underground mining applications require fresh air to be pumped in and dirty air to be expelled. The problem is that the air underground can become contaminated with potentially flammable particles such as coal dust, or gases such as methane. An air flow moving over a metallic or hard plastic surface can generate static electricity, and…

Distributors of Precision

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Distributors of Precision

Talk to anyone in the industrial healthcare sector and it will become immediately clear that hearing loss in mine operators is one of the most common occupational health and safety challenges confronting every mine site across the country. The common practices of blasting and crushing and the use of heavy machinery mean that dangerous noise generation is an unavoidable by-product of mining and mineral processing. According to a report from Safe Work Australia, for the years 2010-2011 in mining, a full quarter of workers’ compensation claims were related to deafness and the terrible effects that hearing loss has on the quality of life for miners. Settling these claims presents an expensive proposition for mining companies. Reducing the prevalence of this…

Technology hears the whole story

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Technology hears the whole story

THERE’S a significant problem with conventional methods of ‘modelling’ when managing noise associated with mine sites, ports and refineries – they potentially limit revenue and stymie operational effectiveness. How? Well, put simply, they are merely blunt-force implements that predict static, worst-case scenarios to determine operational noise impacts on communities. These worse case scenarios are, in effect, estimations that result in high error margins, uncertainty and overly conservative productivity targets. But all that has changed with the development of Nexus. It’s a paradigm shift in noise management using modelling plus monitoring that overcomes the inaccuracy and mistrust that plague current conventions. And it accomplishes this right before your eyes – real time data benefiting real time operations. By coupling recent advancements…