World-class ventilation-optimized systems drive energy savings to contribute to net-zero commitments

Ventsim originated as mining management software in 1993. Today it ensures operations within mines and tunnels are safe and efficient. Our core team of developers are specialists in underground and open cut environments and possess unique programming skills to make sure that our software is designed to suit the demanding requirements of underground ventilation design and operation.

Ventsim DESIGN

  • Compressible Flows – compressible airflows effects at depth are modelled
  • Thermodynamic environmental simulation
  • Heating and Cooling – includes heat or refrigeration options in network analysis
  • Rock Thermal Input – predicts heat and moisture emanating from rock strata
  • Diesel Equipment – predicts heat and humidity generated by diesel equipment
  • Natural ventilation – uses thermodynamics to simulate natural ventilation effects
  • Dynamic blasting – Blasting fume animated dynamic spread time and clearance time dispersion
  • Diesel Particulate Simulation – utilises diesel engine sources to estimate DPM levels throughout the mine
  • Dynamic Heat and Gas Distribution – Individual heat and gas time based simulation and spread through model with graphing

Ventsim CONTROL

  • Achieve energy savings on your ventilation system of between 10 to 70% by increasing system efficiency and reducing power use
  • Maximise health and safety by automating ventilation equipment and increasing airflow to active levels
  • Increase production by clearing blast gases faster, decreasing downtime up to 3 hours per production blast
  • Reduce carbon footprint by optimising the system and monitoring the reduction of tonnes of CO2 emissions
  • Maintain safe and compliant working conditions by reducing and monitor contaminant gases

Airflow Regulators & Dampers:

  • Precise, verifiable ventilation control with automatic or manual options
  • Automatic air flow regulator with actuator and the optional grille
  • Automatic air flow regulator frame

Ventsim™ DESIGN

Ventsim DESIGN is a complete integrated mine and tunnel ventilation software package for the design and testing of ventilation circuits including airflow, pressure, heat, gases, power, radon, fire and many other types of ventilation information.

The software enables engineers to accurately model, design, evaluate, and optimize underground mine and tunnel ventilation systems by creating an accurate simulation of the ventilation environment. Real-time animated 3D graphics represent actual airway dimensions and shapes with animated airflows.

Ventsim DESIGN is an expert tool that’s useful in all stages of ventilation design, from assessing needs and selecting hardware in the early planning stages to ongoing optimization of everyday operations in a working mine or tunnel.

Ventsim Design

Ventsim™ CONTROL

Ventsim CONTROL utilizes intelligent software connected to hardware devices to remotely monitor, control and automate airflow, heating and cooling to deliver safer, more productive and lower cost ventilation for your mine.

Ventsim CONTROL provides complete management of the ventilation system and includes an in-built energy reporting tool tracking ongoing underground ventilation energy consumption. The solution is scalable from manual remote control right up to a full Ventilation on demand (VOD) system, where the system adjusts mine airflow in real time based on vehicle and personnel position. This can be extended to include Cooling on Demand (CoD) functionality allowing users to monitor temperatures at deeper levels and push back cooled air more efficiently.

Ventsim Control

Ventilation Engineering Services

Howden mine ventilation engineers use Ventsim DESIGN simulations to create an optimized plan based on your existing mine infrastructure. Hardware and instrumentation is strategically placed in your mine model for maximum productivity based on accurate calculations of power and airflow.

Ventilation Engineering Services

Regulator & Dampers

Howden airflow regulators and dampers are an integral part of Ventsim™ CONTROL Optimised Mine Ventilation Systems. Howden manufactures any size of louver-type automatic airflow regulators complete with actuators and connectors ready for MCS or MCSg control.

Regulators and Dampers

Ventsim™ DESIGN

Ventsim DESIGN is a complete integrated mine and tunnel ventilation software package for the design and testing of ventilation circuits including airflow, pressure, heat, gases, power, radon, fire and many other types of ventilation information.

The software enables engineers to accurately model, design, evaluate, and optimize underground mine and tunnel ventilation systems by creating an accurate simulation of the ventilation environment. Real-time animated 3D graphics represent actual airway dimensions and shapes with animated airflows.

Ventsim DESIGN is an expert tool that’s useful in all stages of ventilation design, from assessing needs and selecting hardware in the early planning stages to ongoing optimization of everyday operations in a working mine or tunnel.

Ventsim Design

Ventsim™ CONTROL

Ventsim CONTROL utilizes intelligent software connected to hardware devices to remotely monitor, control and automate airflow, heating and cooling to deliver safer, more productive and lower cost ventilation for your mine.

Ventsim CONTROL provides complete management of the ventilation system and includes an in-built energy reporting tool tracking ongoing underground ventilation energy consumption. The solution is scalable from manual remote control right up to a full Ventilation on demand (VOD) system, where the system adjusts mine airflow in real time based on vehicle and personnel position. This can be extended to include Cooling on Demand (CoD) functionality allowing users to monitor temperatures at deeper levels and push back cooled air more efficiently.

Ventsim Control

Ventilation Engineering Services

Howden mine ventilation engineers use Ventsim DESIGN simulations to create an optimized plan based on your existing mine infrastructure. Hardware and instrumentation is strategically placed in your mine model for maximum productivity based on accurate calculations of power and airflow.

Ventilation Engineering Services

Regulator & Dampers

Howden airflow regulators and dampers are an integral part of Ventsim™ CONTROL Optimised Mine Ventilation Systems. Howden manufactures any size of louver-type automatic airflow regulators complete with actuators and connectors ready for MCS or MCSg control.

Regulators and Dampers

 
 

Energy and ventilation

Read our article, published in the International Mining Magazine, which discusses the role that Ventsim CONTROL can play in reducing mine energy consumption.

How Ventsim CONTROL works

Ventsim CONTROL allows you to operate on a fully automated and optimized mine ventilation solution, including Ventilation-On-Demand, based on vehicle and personnel presence. This enables improved production, blast-clearing times, energy savings, and increased safety for underground workers.

Sustainable Mining

Read our article, published in the Nordic Steel & Mining Review, which describes how Ventsim CONTROL can assist operators in lowering the impact of their mines through increased efficiencies.

Transurban Tunnel Design

Transurban selected Ventsim to analyze the performance of their tunnel ventilation, leading to power usage savings of over 10%. Read more in our case study.

 

Technical Library

Access and download literature, specifications, case studies and more.

Regulators & Dampers Leaflet

Regulators & Dampers Leaflet (Spanish)

Ventilation Engineering Services

Ventsim Tunnel DESIGN

Ventsim Tunnel DESIGN (French)

Ventsim Tunnel DESIGN (Spanish)

Energy and Ventilation Efficiency in Mining

An article discussing how Ventsim CONTROL delivers energy efficiency in underground mines

Keeping in step with sustainable mining through optimised ventilation

An article, published in the Nordic Steel & Mining Review, which describes how Ventsim CONTROL can assist operators in lowering the impact of their mines through increased efficiencies.

Selection of mining VOD cases

Results from case studies of Ventilation on Demand systems at three typical underground mines.

Transurban tunnel ventilation efficiency optimisation

Modelling of a tunnel ventilation system to identify efficiency improvements within a 6.7km road tunnel.

Ventilation Control Goldcorp Eleonore

Ventilation control delivers dramatic cost reduction at Canadian Gold mine.

Ventilation on Demand for Hard Rock

Working with a North American hard rock mine to introduce a Ventilation on Demand system using SmartEXEC technology.

Ventsim CONTROL Fresnillo

Ventsimâ„¢ CONTROL ready fans to end need for retrofits at Mexican Gold and Silver mines.

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