An automated temperature and humidity monitoring and control system for an underground tunnel :

Abstract

This project seeks to design and construct an automated temperature and humidity monitoring and control system for an underground tunnel. The system addresses the major gaps that have been existing in maintaining underground mines’ health working conditions. This is achieved through keeping track of the mine temperature and humidity levels and controlling their concentrations by varying the air flow rate automatically signalling for the case of worst conditions in this system. More so, this system measures and continuously displays the temperature and humidity values in the mine to personnel on a liquid crystal display (LCD). The first chapter comprises the introduction, which clearly shows the problem statement, the objectives of the study, the background, and scope of the study. The second chapter comprises the literature review which elaboratively shows how different companies have handled the problem of high ambient air temperature and humidity in tunnels around the world. The third chapter is comprised of the methodology that this study applied. It elaborates on how the data collection will be done, how the data collected will be analyzed, and how they analyze the data will be utilized to design for the automated temperature and humidity monitoring and control system. The fourth chapter includes the results and discussions of every specific objective. Chapter five involves the conclusion, challenges, and recommendations. Chapter six bibliography, which is a list of references that were relied on for an elaborative literature review and appendices.