Ventilation Laboratory


Depending on individual topics, labs for Min-218 are carried out at either Experimental Mine or at the Peabody Ventilation Laboratory at McNutt Hall.

Experimental Mine



Photos show students reading a slingpsychrometer (left) and take an anemometer reading in Experimental Mine (right).











Peabody Ventilation Laboratory at McNutt Hall



Photo shows the Plexi-glass Single-entry Model and 10:1 Scale Coal Face with A Continuous Miner Equipped with Dust Scrubber (also with inclined barometer and water gage in the background).