Review on Coal Mining Techniques

Automation in Longwall Coal Mining - A Review

Coal is an important fossil fuel and will also be for the next decades [1]. The only way to achieve the challenges faced by the coal industry is to reduce production costs by improving productivity. Improvement of productivity has become an important goal for today’s coal industry in the race to increase price competitiveness. In recent years, underground mining method is becoming popular becau...

The Status of Ndt Techniques in Indian Coal Mining Industries

Introduction: India with hard coal production of about 254 MT from about 550 nationalised mines in 1994-95 is the third largest coal producing country in the world after China & USA. The country with 16.4 percent population of the world has measure 6.8 percent share of proved world coal resources. Coalfield over an area of 4.37 million hectares out of the total land surface of 328.8 million hec...

Review on Heart Disease Diagnosis Based on Data Mining Techniques

The availability of huge amount of data leads to the need of powerful data analysis tool to extract useful knowledge. To manage data analysis on large data sets researchers have long been concerned with statistical and data mining tools. Disease diagnosis is one of the major applications where data mining tools are showing successful results. Heart disease is the major cause of the death all ov...

Population Cancer Risks Associated with Coal Mining: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Coal is produced across 25 states and provides 42% of US energy. With production expected to increase 7.6% by 2035, proximate populations remain at risk of exposure to carcinogenic coal products such as silica dust and organic compounds. It is unclear if population exposure is associated with increased risk, or even which cancers have been studied in this regard. METHODS We perform...

Coal Exploration and Mining