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Award for BHU researchers

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI JAN. 21. A team of researchers from the Benares Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, has been awarded the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial medal. The medal was presented at the 17th Indian Engineering Congress in Patna last month.

The researchers — K.K. Gupta, former head of the Mining Engineering Department at BHU and his associates B.R. Parate, M.D. Patel, R.P. Singh and A. Jamal — won the medal, awarded by the Institution of Engineers, for their work on "quantitative assessment of incubation period of coal underground mines".

They have worked on evolving a methodology to predict the time lapse between the commencement of extraction of coal and the appearance of auto-oxidation (which leads to coal mine fires). The team considered 23 factors, adopting a quantitative and computational approach, to predict the occurrence of fire, which, in turn would help in maximum extraction of the coal before any sign of fire appears. Their work would lead to safer mining conditions and optimum resource recovery.

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