ENGINEERING
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING
Proven In-house Core Capabilities
Trans Africa Container is a leading mining services company, but it’s not what we do, it’s how we do it that makes Trans Africa Container different. Multi-disciplinary engineering capabilities cover all major disciplines including mining, civil, electrical, structural and mechanical engineering. With years of experience in the industry, Trans Africa Container can address all of your projects’ engineering needs efficiently and professionally.
BUILDING ON INNOVATION
Improved Safety and Data Performance Upgrades
Trans Africa Container conducts extensive data logging for accurate record keeping and preventative maintenance, ensuring the project is completed safely and on-time.
Engineering Insights
OUR ENGINEERING TEAM
Our multidisciplinary team of experienced and capable engineers can cover all aspects of your project, delivering solutions that ensure safety, efficiency, and success.
Our engineering services and expertise have been employed on a wide range of projects, helping you and your business develop all aspects of challenging mining projects. The details show where we’ve honed our abilities.
Working Towards a Bigger Picture
Mining Projects
Trans Africa Container Mining projects are competitively funded intramural research based on focused scientific questions or hypotheses aimed to address a relevant challenge in protecting the health and safety of mine workers. Each project has a principal investigator (PI) who directs the research and writes a funding proposal, including the planned research aims, the work to be done, the Trans Africa Container Mining facilities and outside partners who will be involved, and the needed personnel and budget. At the completion of a project, typical outputs are new or improved design guidelines, physical products, software packages, or new information published in peer-reviewed journals or as Trans Africa Container numbered publications. Most projects are funded for four years, and pilot projects are funded for one year.
END TO END SERVICES
Comprehensive Evaluation and Design Services
Our engineering solutions cover concept, prefeasibility, and technical engineering. We use an engineering package schedule to monitor and track your projects progress, offering services that go the full distance.
Our expertise includes: mine planning (conceptual/feasibility/detail), equipment evaluation and selection, mine and facility design, flow sheet layouts, material handling, ancillaries/utilities design, transportation system design.
Mining Projects
Trans Africa Container Mining projects are competitively funded intramural research based on focused scientific questions or hypotheses aimed to address a relevant challenge in protecting the health and safety of mine workers. Each project has a principal investigator (PI) who directs the research and writes a funding proposal, including the planned research aims, the work to be done, the Trans Africa Container Mining facilities and outside partners who will be involved, and the needed personnel and budget. At the completion of a project, typical outputs are new or improved design guidelines, physical products, software packages, or new information published in peer-reviewed journals or as Trans Africa Container numbered publications. Most projects are funded for four years, and pilot projects are funded for one year.
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Advanced Mining Seismicity Processing |
A project to explore and refine advanced event detection, location, and magnitude estimation methods that can be used to increase seismic catalog quality. |
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Advanced Strategies for Controlling Exposures to Diesel Aerosols |
A project to develop and implement workplace solutions to reduce miners’ overexposure to hazardous airborne contaminants emitted from diesel-powered equipment. |
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Advancement of Refuge Alternatives for Underground Coal Mines |
A project to minimize the risk of heat illness for miners entering an RA, ensure the availability of air delivery and purging systems for RAs, facilitate the use of BIP RAs, and develop a reliable communications system for RAs. |
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Advancing Exposure Monitoring for Airborne Particulates in Mining |
A project to design, validate, and promote the use of advancements in monitoring the exposure of miners to respirable dust, respirable crystalline silica, and diesel particulate matter. |
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Alternative Mining Methods in Challenging Environments |
A project to reduce injuries and fatalities caused by rockburst-related ground failures in underground mines by developing an integrated, systematic approach for monitoring mining-induced seismic events. |
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Tyler M. , P.E |
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Analysis of Health and Safety Management System Practices Through Multilevel Interventions |
Identify and characterize H&S performance practices through worker-technology-management interactions to provide guidance about risk processes with a focus on management of site risks and improvement in H&S values through empowering initiatives. |
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An Analysis of Health and Safety Management Systems in Mining |
A pilot project to identify leading indicators in health and safety management practices unique to the mining industry and compare them against the leading indicators of mature occupational health and safety programs. |
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Dana Reinke Willmer |
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Applicability of Proximity Detection to Mobile Underground Coal Equipment |
A project to determine whether the proximity detection systems currently available to the underground coal mining industry provide protection to miners working near mobile haulage equipment such as shuttle cars and scoops. |
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Assessing and Evaluating Human Systems Integration Needs in Mining |
A project to use a systems approach to characterize what information needs to be provided to mine workers, determine the timing and format of that information, and then use this information to develop alternatives to interfaces design. |
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Assessing Elevated Stress Due to Full Extraction Mining |
A project to develop engineering-based stress analysis procedures for improved assessment of stress-related hazards due to full extraction mining. |
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Ted Klemetti |
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Moving Beside Technology
As technologies advance, our processes also take a leap forward. While requiring next level expertise, 3D modeling offers a whole new perspective for both our clients and our employees. To ensure a smoothly progressing project, we utilize 3D modeling in order to virtually walk through a space. 3D modeling aids us in realizing the potential of an idea as it sees oversights that might be missed if viewed in dimensions.
ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE
Why us ?
Our diverse team of multicultural engineers, both young and old, strive for collaboration delivering Design/Build Solutions. With an expanding engineering vision, Trans Africa Container provides real-time and 3D drawings, which give us an edge over competitors. It also gives clients an opportunity to rethink original requirements. This we see not only are they key for opening the door to new clients, they are also a core component in the progression of our projects.
Our capable, collaborative teams can take a solution through the design phase and into execution. 80% of our engineering is design/build, a process that takes into account existing constraints to maximize our expertise. We build strong relationships with you through consistent and direct reporting at every step.
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Assessing the Safety Culture of Coal Mining | A project to work with a consultant, Human Performance Analysis, to assess the safety culture at U.S. coal mines. |
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Assured Autonomy Supervisory Intervention System Technology (ASSIST) | A pilot project to determine if technology and methodology exist to construct a real-time systems risk assessment and intervention framework that is applicable to a wide variety of autonomous mining equipment. | |
Battery Safety Enhancements for Underground Coal Mines | A project to make recommendations and guide policy or program decisions regarding the safety of batteries used in underground coal mines. |
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Blast Damage Control to Reduce Injuries from Ground Falls in Underground Western U.S. Hard Rock Mines | A project to make available blast damage models and an easy-to-use software tool for mining engineers to use in developing improved blast designs. |
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Breathing Air Supplies Research | A project to improve breathing air supplies by conducting a development program; exploring and identifying technologies in other fields that may be adapted; and designing, developing, and producing technology demonstrators. |
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Building an Evidence-Based Framework for Improving Miners’ Health | A project to establish a program that assesses and tracks miner health and hazard exposures to determine needs for targeted intervention and research reduce occupational illnesses and improve miners’ health in the U.S. | |
Calibration and Verification of Longwall Stress Models | A project to address the paucity of guidance in available literature for assessing the design an underground longwall coal mine for safe ground response to mining with numerical stress analysis tools. |
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Certification Test Protocol Development and Treated Rock Dust Deployment Strategies | A project to eliminate coal dust explosions in underground coal mines through the development of improved methodologies for identifying and mitigating explosible accumulations of coal dust. |
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CFD Modeling in Processing Facilities | A project to understand the dust generation and transport processes and propose ventilation designs to minimize the dust at mineral processing plants using CFD models. |
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Characterization of Haul Truck Health and Safety Issues | A project to inform future health and safety research related to powered haulage by identifying health and safety issues related to haul trucks through a systematic evaluation of accidents, operators’ needs, and technology maturity. |
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