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Associate Professor
Euler De Souza, a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario, is a mining engineer and technical advisor in mine ventilation and mine environment. Some of his recent consulting work to mining companies includes: ventilation audits; air quality control; solving critical ventilation problems; ventilation de-bottle necking; ventilation designs for new mines; ventilation upgrade for existing mines; the design of ventilation raises; the design of surface intake and exhaust fan installations; analysis of the performance of main fan installations; booster fan selection and design; ventilation design for new orebodies; auxiliary ventilation design for long headings; the design of ore pass dust control systems; ventilation surveys; and network modeling. He regularly performs ventilation audits for a number of mines and has been active in providing industrial training at mine sites in mine ventilation.
He is director of the Golden Giant centrifuge modeling facility, a 5.3 m, 30g-tonne centrifuge developed for modeling mining problems in rock mechanics and mine environmental engineering.
Dr. De Souza is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mine Ventilation Society of South Africa, the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the International Society for Rock Mechanics, the Canadian Rock Mechanics Association and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
Courses:
• Mine Ventilation
• Environmental Health Engineering
• Advanced Ventilation and Environmental Mine Engineering
• Hydraulics for Mining Applications
• Geotechnology in Soft Rock Mining
• Field Instrumentation in Ground Engineering
Publications
Journals
De Souza, E. (1010) ‘Designing safe and stable tailings dam structures with centrifuge modelling’. Risk Analysis VII and Brownfields V. Transactions of the Wessex Institute of Technology. 615-626.
Dirige, A.P.E. and De Souza, E. (2007) 'Engineering design of backfill systems in undercut mining'. Executive Summary. The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin. vol. 2; No. 5. pp. 79.
Conference Proceedings
De Souza, E. (2011) ‘Unique Backfill Design Methodologies Using Centrifuge Technology’. Minefill 2011. 10th International Conference on Mining with Backfill. Cape Town, South Africa.
Manaras, E. De Souza and J.f. Archibald (2011) ‘Strength Behaviour and Failure Mechanisms of Backfill - Rock Mass Interfaces’. 10th International Conference on Mining with Backfill. Cape Town, South Africa.
Archibald, J.F., De Souza, E. and Beauchamp, L. (2011) ‘Safe Canadian Practices in Mine Backfill Operations’. 10th International Conference on Mining with Backfill. Cape Town, South Africa.
De Souza, E. (2010) ‘Guidelines for Auxiliary Ventilation in Underground Mines’. 2010 Workplace Safety North Mining Health & Safety Conference. Sudbury.
De Souza, E. and Gherghel, C. (2009) ‘Reconciliation of Mine Production Planning and Ventilation in an Underground Mine’. Mine Planning and Equipment Selection. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium, MPES 2009. Banff:IJSM.
De Souza, E., Archibald. J. and Beauchamp, L. (2009) ‘Management and Control of Hazards in Mine Backfill Operations’. Environmental Issues and Waste Management in Energy and Mineral Production. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium, SWEMP 2009. Banff:IJSM.
De Souza, E., Archibald. J. and Beauchamp, L. (2009) ‘Compilation of Industry Practices for Control of Hazards Associated with Backfill in Underground Mines. 3rd Canada-US Rock Mechanics Symposium & 20th Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium. Toronto.
Technical Reports
De Souza, E. (2011) PotashCorp Lanigan Division Mine Ventilation System Assessment’. Internal report. PotashCorp Lanigan Division.
De Souza, E. (2011) ‘An Analysis of Airflow Characteristics for the No. 1 Shaft at Allan Division’. Internal report. PotashCorp Allan Division.
De Souza, E. (2011) ‘Rio Tinto Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. Ventilation System Engineering Design Study’. Internal report. Rio Tinto.
De Souza, E. (2011) ‘Assessment of Cigar Lake Ventilation Upgrade Scenarios’. Internal report. Cigar Lake Project.
De Souza, E. (2010) ‘Goldcorp Inc. Hoyle Pond Mine Main Fresh Air Surface Fan System Assessment’. Internal report. Goldcorp Inc.
De Souza, E. (2010) 'PotashCorp Rocanville Division Mine Ventilation System Assessment’. Internal Report. PotashCorp Rocanville Division.
De Souza, E. (2009) 'Ventilation Design for Athabasca Potash Burr Project'. Internal Report. Athabasca Potash Inc.
Books:
De Souza, E. Editor (2002) Mine Ventilation. Proceedings of the North American / Ninth US Mine Ventilation Symposium. A.A. Balkema Publishers:Kingston, Ontario. pp. 681.
Workplace Safety North (2009-2011) 'Auxiliary Mine Ventilation Manual’.