Title: Gob spontaneous combustion in a fully mechanized long-wall top-coal caving face
Abstract: As geological conditions allow, underground coal mines in China tend to use comprehensively mechanized roof-coal caving technique in an effort to gain a higher degree of mechanization at coal faces as well as higher coal production rates. As a face advances, a large amount of coal will be left behind in its gob area which may experience a self-enhancing process of coal oxidation and heat accumulation, ultimately leading to open fire. Such a self-enhancing coal spontaneous combustion process is a significantly impediment to mine safety and productivity. A sound mathematical model is an important step to predict the probability of spontaneous combustion so that measures against coal-heating can be adopted in time and at comparatively low cost. This paper analyzes main factors in coal spontaneous combustion process and proposes a mathematical model to describe the dynamic process of coal self-heating in the gob. This model has been applied to a coal production face in Datong Coal Region in Shangdong Province to satisfactorily predict the spontaneous combustion probability.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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