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Title: Mine ventilation computer code for personal computers. Information Circular/1989

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5629909

The U.S. Bureau of Mines-Michigan Technological University mine ventilation mainframe program was successfully adapted for execution in a personal computer (PC). A version compiled for a PC possessing 512 Kb RAM has arrays dimensioned to accommodate 512 separate mine airways and junctions, and it contains all the features and capabilities of the original version. It has successfully analyzed all the ventilation networks tested, including a very large commercial mine (404 airways, 237 junctions, and 5 fans). In all cases the PC version produced practically identical results as obtained from the mainframe computer. In all respects, the PC version performed the same as the mainframe version with the exception of execution speed. As an aid to the user of the PC version, a data base management program was developed using a commercially available data base management language to automate data entry and management.

Research Organization:
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Pittsburgh Research Center
OSTI ID:
5629909
Report Number(s):
PB-89-205595/XAB; BUMINES-IC-9215
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Library of Congress catalog card no. 88-600407
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English