Use of Thermoanalytic Methods in the Evaluation of Combusted Materials

The paper describes possibilities of using thermoanalytic methods for the evaluation and comparison of materials designed for a direct combustion. Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were both used in the evaluation. The paper includes a description of methods of data processing from analyses for the purposes of comparison of used materials regarding their heating values. The following materials were analysed in the experiments: wooden coal of objectional grain size, fly ash from heating plant exhaust funnels, dendromass waste: spruce sawdust, micro-briquettes of spruce sawdust and fly-ash combined

Acoustic and physiological effects of the surroundings in rock cutting process

A noise effect arising in the rock cutting process is gaining a large attention as to the identification and optimization of the cuttingprocess. The sense experience acquired during the experiments in the process of rotary rock drilling related to the determination of rock typeor to the optimal drilling regime determination is formed due to sense perception, mainly hearing, and its further evaluation by the humanbrain from the information exempted from the environment

A procedure of experimental data acquisition for an evaluation of the acoustic emission in the rock disintegration

The paper describes some results of the monitoring of acoustic signal in the rock disintegration on the drillig stand of the Institute of Geotechnics, SAS, in Košice. The acoustic signal has been registered. The registration and processing of the acoustic signal is solved as a part of the research grant task within the basic research of the rock disintegration by drilling