An interactive webinar organized by the UNIC | Environmental Health Research Centre.
The webinar will be presented by Assistant Professor, Dr Ernestos N. Sarris.
The daily activities from open-pit mines and quarries (drilling and blasting, road haulage, loading, crushing and stockpiling) are responsible for the production of significant amounts of fugitive dust escaping in the atmosphere, in an uncontrolled manner, and it can be responsible for causing serious environmental, health, safety and operational issues impacting both site personnel and the wider community.
The need for fugitive dust monitoring emerges from EU directives (2008/50/EC & 2010/75/EU) which EU countries must comply. In the present work, we have performed real-time measurements to quantify effectively the fugitive dust from surface mines and different quarries at locations throughout Cyprus. These measurements serve as the database for calibration of a state-of-the art model, which will allow for fast results and is the first approach towards the solution of the problem. Our results show that most quarries comply with EU directives and the regulations from the Department of Labour Inspection.
Presenter
Dr Ernestos Sarris
Assistant Professor
School of Sciences and Engineering
Dr Ernestos N. Sarris is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Department of the University of Nicosia where he teaches upstream courses at the Oil and Gas engineering programmes. He is the coordinator of the BSc Oil & Gas Engineering and MSc Oil, Gas and Energy Engineering programmes. He is the director of the Petrophysics, Rock Mechanics and Soil Mechanics laboratories at the University of Nicosia. Dr Sarris is a holder of a degree in Mineral Resources Engineering and an M.Sc. in Environmental Geotechnology from Technical University of Crete. He holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Geomechanics with application in hydraulic fracturing from the University of Cyprus. His research focuses in mathematical modelling, simulation and lately experimental methods. More specifically, he is interested in modelling phenomena in petroleum related rock mechanics and for environmental applications in mining activities. Dr. Sarris has worked as a principal researcher in a number of research and industrial projects.
