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LongWangGou coal mine auxiliary inclined shaft heading face has a large section, fast heading speed, and large dust production. The problems of high concentration and wide distribution of dust in the roadway air are very prominent. To improve the efficiency of roadway ventilation and dust removal, long-compression and short suction (after this referred to as LCSS) are adopted. The dust concentration and airflow field distribution in the roadway are numerically simulated by FLUENT. The change of the position between the pressure duct and the exhaust duct and the different pressure-extraction ratios affect the distribution of airflow velocity, the formation of vortex zone, and the distribution of dust concentration in the roadway. When Ly=25 m, Lc=5.0 m, W=1.2, a wind curtain is formed at 5 m in front of the heading face to prevent dust from spreading deeper into the roadway.
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Coal Mining , Suction , Dust/analysis , Computer Simulation , Coal/analysisABSTRACT
The control and utilization of coalbed methane (CBM) are crucial for ensuring the safety of coal mining operations and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Predrainage of CBM from boreholes plays a pivotal role in preventing CBM accidents, harnessing CBM energy resources, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To better understand the evolution of key parameters during the predrainage process of CBM boreholes, this study, based on fundamental assumptions of coupling models, integrates the theories of elasticity, seepage mechanics, and fluid mechanics. It establishes a comprehensive mathematical model that reveals the interrelationships among the stress field, deformation field, and seepage field within methane-containing coal systems. By comparing numerical solutions with analytical solutions and conducting physical similarity simulation experiments, the study demonstrates the correctness of the methane-containing coal fluid-solid coupling model. The model developed in this study represents an improvement over traditional methane-containing coal seepage theories and fluid-solid coupling model theories and can be widely applied in the prevention of coal and CBM outbursts as well as CBM extraction.
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is both a primary greenhouse gas and a readily available energy source. In this study, a new underground coal permeability enhancement technique utilizing cryogenic liquid CO2 (L-CO2) cyclic injection is proposed. The key parameters that determine the feasibility of this technique are cycle period and cycle number within a fixed working period. The optimal value of these two parameters mainly depends on the pore structure evolution law of coal cores before and after cryogenic L-CO2 cyclic freeze-thaw. Accordingly, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was employed to study the evolution characteristics of the fracture networks and pore structures in coal cores subjected to different freeze-thaw cyclic modes. The results demonstrated that the amplitude and width of all peaks of the T2 spectra of the three coal cores (lignite, gas coal, and 1/3 coking coal) increased with an increase in the number of injection cycles. Additionally, as the number of freeze-thaw cycles (Nc) increased, the total porosity and effective porosity of the coal cores increased linearly before stabilizing, while the residual porosity first steadily diminished and afterwards became constant. Furthermore, the variation in the total porosity and residual porosity of the coal cores continuously diminished with an increase in the level of metamorphism. The NMR permeability of the coal cores showed a similar pattern to the porosity. Accordingly, the optimal parameters for cryogenic L-CO2 cyclic injection during a complete working time were determined to be Nc = 4 and Pc = 30 min. A field test demonstrated that after L-CO2 cyclic freeze-thaw treatment, the average gas drainage concentration of a single borehole in the test region increased by 1.93 times, while the pure flow of a single gas drainage borehole increased by 2.21 times. Finally, the gas attenuation coefficient decreased from 0.036 to 0.012. We concluded that the proposed permeability enhancement technique transformed coal seams from hard-to-drain to drainable.
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This paper reports an experimental study on the electrical properties of five coal samples taken from various Chinese coal mines. The dielectric permittivity and specific resistivity of grinded coal samples subjected to electromagnetic (EM) fields in a wide frequency spectrum were determined. Based on the experimental data, a set of approximating equations of the change in electric properties the 100-1000 MHz frequency region was obtained. These equations, along with EM equations for EM speed and attenuation, were used for modeling and studying radar-wave propagation in a coal seam and radar-wave reflection from the body of miners trapped in collapsed tunnels. The modeling concept assumes that a radar transducer with the dominating frequency of 500 MHz is lowered through a vertical or inclined rescue borehole to the depth of the coal seam. It is assumed that only the miner is present in the part of the tunnel that did not collapse. Thus, in the path of the radar wave from the transducer to the human body, only one geological interface reflecting the radar signals is present (coal-air) and one is connected with human body. The human (acting as the reflector) can be located at various distances from the tunnel face; this factor was included in the analyzed geometrical model. Based on the modeling results of different thickness coal seams (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8m), conclude that a radar wave reflected from a human body can be reliably measured, when the distance between the human and the transducer is not exceed 8m.
