Class Syllabus

Deterministic Systems:

Application of linear programming to mineral industry and environmental planning problems:

Facility location
Water resources management
Production scheduling
Water supply and flood control
Blending and quality assurance problems in multi-mineral or multi-attribute deposits
Transportation problems
Transportation of hazardous wastes
Integer and mixed integer programming applications in plant design
Hazardous waste management

Network algorithms and applications:

Lerchs Grossman Algorithm for determining ultimate pit limits
Maximum Flow Algorithm approach to ultimate pit limits
Hazardous waste management

Dynamic programming applications:

Ultimate pit limits
Production scheduling
Hydraulic transport systems for coal
Design of batch processing systems