Methane gas emission, accumulation, and explosion are the most important risk factors in underground coal mines. Hence, having a knowledge of methane gas emission potential in underground coal mines is of crucial importance in preventing the explosion risk, loss of life, and property, and providing miners' safety. The purpose of this work is to provide the prediction maps for the C1, C2, and B2...

Estimation of the height of caved and fractured zones above a longwall panel along with the stability conditions of the goaf area are very crucial to determine the abutment stresses, ground subsidence, and face support as well as designing the surrounding gates and intervening pillars. In this work, the height of caving-fracturing zone above the mined panel is considered as the height of destre...

Gas disasters, such as coal and gas outburst overflow, always occur during the mining of steep extra-thick seam in horizontal, fully mechanized, top slice caving (HFMTCSC) method. To solve these issues guarantee safe efficient Yaojie No. 3 mine, 3DEC software was used this work to investigate overburden movement collapse law well stress redistribution coal-seam deformation characteristics below...

Coal is still the major resource to meet expanding energy demand and widely used in coal-fired thermal power plants taking advantage of rich reserves cost-effective production. Longwall mining a method that Türkiye, line with trend world, enables economical sustainable production underground coal resources mechanized equipment. Estimation stress distribution concentration zones excavation face ...

ational statistics on coal-mining productivity show that—except during the 1970s—coal mines have become steadily more efficient. More coal is removed per hour of work, causing a drop in both mining costs and coal prices. However, a new Energy Laboratory study suggests that those national statistics do not tell the whole story. When the researchers analyzed productivity data for more than ninete...

In mining of inclined coal seams in Tangshan coal mine of Kailuan group, gateways on either end of a panel were both typically located along the floor and a gateway pillar between adjoining panels was left unmined between adjacent panels to ensure stability, thus forming a planar mining system. According to the practice, however, it turned out that this conventional mining system has long-stand...