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    • Benchmarking electricity use of deep-level mines 

      Cilliers, Charl (North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)
      Electricity consumption, and the cost thereof, has become a large contributor to operating costs in deep-level mining in South Africa. Up to 60% of electricity used on deep-level mines can be attributed to five high power ...
    • Using specific energy as a metric to characterise compressor system performance 

      Shaw, William; Mathews, Marc; Marais, Johan (Elsevier, 2019)
      Mine compressed air systems are inefficient and complex to analyse. There is no clear method which can be used to characterise the total performance of the supply side system in terms of the air supplied and energy consumed. ...