Impact of energy on Tunneling output using energy efficiency measurement

This paper review and discusses effects of Energy Productivity on mining activities including Tunneling by introducing basic foundation of productivity and previous research and assessing them on a case study. In order to conduct the research, after reviewing latest and previous studies on the importance of energy consumption on mining activities done by other researchers, Kendrick-Kreamer productivity measurement model has been introduced and explained. In the next step, the model was used so as to calculate a real water tunneling project which can be contemplated as a sub-category of mining activities by computing partial and total factor productivity. The results show that Energy consumption is 2.04 M/IRRe-07 which is almost twice as any other indexes. Finally, the resulting values has been discussed and some appropriate solutions concerning improving the energy consumption have been introduced.

Keywords:

Tunneling , Sustainable Development , Management Practices , Productivity , Energy Efficiency