It is widely known and accepted that the global climate is changing with unprecedented speed. Climate models project increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation regimes which will alter the frequency, magnitude, and geographic distribution of climate-related hazards including flood, drought and heat waves. In the mining industry, climate change impacts are an area of research around the world, mostly in relation to the mining industry in Australia and Canada, where mining policies and mitigation actions based on the results of this research were adopted and applied. In Poland, there is still a lack of research on how climate change, and especially extreme weather events, impacts mining activity. This impact may be of particular importance in Poland, where the mining industry is in the process of intensive transition. The paper presents an overview of hazardous events in mining in Poland that were related to extreme weather phenomena. The needs and recommended actions in the scope of mitigating the impact of future climate change on mining in all stages of its functioning were also indicated. The presented analyses and conclusions are the results of the first activities in the TEXMIN project: The impact of extreme weather events on mining activities, identifying the most important factors resulting from climate change impact on mining.

This paper discusses design, evaluation, and application for the use of swirl/vortex technologies as liquid purifi cation system. A study was performed using modifi ed swirl sedimentation tanks. The vortex separators containing baffle have been studied under laboratory conditions at hydraulic load from 21 to 64 [m3/(m2·h)]. Analyzed disperser phases were municipal water and glycerol solutions of varying concentration. The pressure drop and the efficiency of purification of liquid stream were analyzed. The suspended particles of different diameters were successfully removed from liquid with the application of swirl chambers of proposed constructions. It was found that damming of liquid in the tank increases alongside liquid stream at the inlet and depends on the tank construction. The efficiency of the sedimentation tanks increases alongside the diameters of solid particles and decrease in the liquid flow rate. The best construction proved to be the one where baffle is located in the middle of in- and outlet due to the highest efficiency of the purification liquid stream for solid particles of the smallest diameter. The proposed solution is an alternative to the constructions of heavy fraction separators.

W porządkowaniu liniowym obiektów wielocechowych najpopularniejszą metodą doprowadzania danych do porównywalności jest transformacja zmiennych do przedziału [0;1] z jednoczesną zamianą destymulant na stymulanty. W tym przekształceniu wykorzystuje się zaobserwowane najmniejsze i największe wartości zmiennych. Jeżeli występują wartości odstające, lub rozkład zmiennej jest bardzo asymetryczny to w efekcie mamy do czynienia ze sztucznym ważeniem tej zmiennej. Przy asymetrii prawostronnej zmienna sztucznie zyskuje na zaznaczeniu, a przy lewostronnej – traci. W pracy zaproponowano nową, iteracyjną metodę porządkowania obiektów wielocechowych, która pozwala na ominięcie omówionej niedogodności metody klasycznej. Dalsze pozycje w rankingu wyznacza się kolejno, po jednej w każdej iteracji, a przyporządkowany obiekt jest eliminowany ze zbioru, w którym poszukujemy obiektu następnego w kolejności. Taka procedura wymagała również zaproponowania nowego sposobu wyznaczania wskaźnika agregatowego.