The selected workstations are typical for longwall mining. Between two or three employees usually work in one site, with the exception of a longwall shearer, a combine harvester assistant and a shift foreman. ... which have an impact on the amount of dust produced during the mining process of the body of coal. The obtained results clearly ...
The longwall mining process is the most popular highoutput underground coal mining method. Parallel roadways (known as gate roads) are driven into the coal seam typically several hundred metres apart and several kilometres long. In this full extraction mining process a mining machine called a shearer travels back and forth between the roadways.
First Online: 03 February 2016 2464 Accesses Abstract Since the early 1980s, the longwall method has developed into the safest, highest producing and most productive form of underground coal mining, rivalling the performance of many surface mining operations.
The coal seams 7 # and 8 # in the Huaibei mining area, Anhui province, are outburst tendency. The 7 # coal seam was mined as the upper PCS to prevent coal and gas outbursts in the 8 # coal seam ...
Large scale mechanised mining methods we use include: longwall mining, where a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice, usually by a large machine. sublevelcaving, where levels of the ore are blasted by explosives; and ; block caving, where large areas of the ore body are blasted and then extracted with the assistance of gravity.
Abstract. Since the early 1980s, the longwall method has developed into the safest, highest producing and most productive form of underground coal mining, rivalling the performance of many surface ...
Longwall mining accounts for around 90 per cent of Australia's underground coal production. Traditionally a mechanical shearer cuts along the coal seam beneath a roof supported by hydraulic jacks, exposing miners to multiple risks on a daily basis.
The overburden rock strata fractures and collapses as the extraction of a longwall panel. Knowledge of the extents and characteristics of the fractured zone is important to evaluating many mininginduced issues including abutment pressure relief, methane production, and ground subsidence prediction. In this study, a physical model was initially created to produce the process of longwall mining ...
Longwall shearer positioning with an inertial navigation system (INS) aided by an odometer is the key technology for automation of the longwall coal mining process.
The fully mechanized mining with large mining height is the main method for high yield and efficient coal mining in China. The key stratum structure (KSS) is the basis of revealing the mechanism of roof weighting and determination of support working resistance of the longwall face with large mining height (LFLMH) in the shallow coal seam. The height of the caving zone at LFLMH is large, the ...
In methane seams, methane flows into the longwall face in two ways (Szlązak et al., 2005). It may be a direct inflow from the coal of the mined seam in each phase of the mining process (mainly, during mining and transportation of excavated material), and from the exposed solid coal of a longwall panel in the zone of operating pressure.
numerical stress analysis tools for deep coal longwall panels under strong strata. SME preprint 09011. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Maleki H [1995]. An analysis of violent failure in coal mines: case studies. In: Maleki H, Wopat PF, Repsher RC, Tuchman RJ, eds. Proceedings: Mechanics and Miti
Longwall mining of coal is a high production and high productivity method, employing sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems, as well as computerbased monitoring and control systems. Most modern (coal) longwall faces are semiautomated.
Because modern longwalls involve a large number of pieces of equipment (numbers of a magnitude of several hundred items, with many components weighing up to 30 tonnes or more), the process of recovering the equipment from a completed block, transporting it to a new block and then installing it in the new block (often with much of it being taken...
ChengZhuang Coal Mine is located in Qin Shui Mining Area, Jin Cheng City, Shanxi Province, China. Its longitude is 112° 43ʹ 49ʺ E, and its latitude is 35° 34ʹ 11ʺ N. Figure 2 and show the location of this coal mine in elevation of No. 4308 longwall panel is m, and its designed advance and net faces are 2431 m and 196 m, respectively.
With mining depth increasing, the mining structure becomes more and more complex. It is easy to cause dynamic disaster during coal mining. To reveal the failure process of gasbearing coal at complex mining environment, the dynamics experiments were conducted through Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar of gasbearing coal (SHPBGAS) experimental system.
In 2015, 40 longwall mines provided nearly 60% of the US coal production from underground mining methods. This represents a substantial yet gradual increase from just under 50% over the last 5 years. As a result of this increased production share, the percentage of groundfallrelated fatalities in longwall mines has also increased when compared to all US underground coal mines. Additionally ...
Cun Zhang. Xiaojie Wang. Waterrock interaction is an essential factor in the weakening of coal rock masses. Longterm soaking (LTS) as a type of waterrock interaction is widespread in mining ...
Where does your energy come from? The truth is Coal powers most of the world. But coal and coal byproducts go far beyond energy production to be fundament...
Ground fissures are generated during the coal mining process due to overlying strata migration, which provides gas and water seepage channels and usually contributes to coal mining accidents in shallow buried coal seams with larger mining height working faces. Thus, the evolution features of ground fissures in large mining height working faces and shallow buried coal seams were explored by ...
Coal mining (also called colliery) is the process of extracting coal from the ground's surface or from deep underground. Coal miners literally raze entire mountain ranges to feed our insurmountable desire for cheap energy. There's something brutally simple about coal mining. Take away the monstrousbutsophisticated machinery and eco ...
Dust generation and its dispersion in a longwall mine pose significant health and safety issues. The concern is prominent at both the working face, where coal excavation exposes workers to high dust concentrations, and also in the return, where float dust accumulates. To address this issue, researchers at the University of Kentucky designed and fabricated a floodedbed dust scrubber integrated ...
The implementation of numerical methods for surface deformation prediction in coal mining using the longwall UG method was performed by many other researchers [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32]. Currently, Vietnamese coal mining is a very important part of the national economy and hard coal is mined using both the OP method and the UG method.
Hence this method is termed the longwall method. In simple words, longwall mining is a method of underground mining, in which coal is extracted from 60m to 200m long faces, moving continuously in one direction over large distances, leaving behind the goaf. The goaf is packed or allowed to cave. Longwall Mining is currently the main method of ...
The basic principles of longwall mining involves a coal bed being selected and blocked out into a panel (Fig. 1) averaging nearly 100350 ... In the extraction process, barrier pillars of coal are left untouched in certain parts of the mine to support the overlying strata. The minedout area is allowed to collapse behind the working face ...
Longwall mining concept showing (A) an oblique view of the longwall operating, (B) a close up of the shearer, and (C) a profile view of the overburden. Image from NIOSH. Coal mines tend to produce many more seismic events than hardrock mines, which makes it difficult to process the data quickly enough to be meaningful.
Longwall mining is a highly productive underground coal mining technique. Longwall mining machines consist of multiple coal shearers mounted on a series of selfadvancing hydraulic ceiling supports. The entire process is mechanized. Longwall mining machines are about 800 feet (240 meters) in width and 5 to 10 feet ( to 3 meters) tall.
In the longwall mining method, mine development is carried out in such a manner that large blocks of coal, usually 100 to 300 metres wide and 1,000 to 3,000 metres long, are available for complete extraction (see photograph).A block of coal is extracted in slices, the dimensions of which are fixed by the height of coal extracted, the width of the longwall face, and the thickness of the slice ...
Abstract and Figures. This paper describes recent advances in the development of an integrated inertial guidance system for automation of the longwall coal mining process. Significant advances in ...
Longwall mining technology . Longwall coal mining is an extraction process in which large panels of a coal seam up to 7 m thick are completely mined in a series of slices. Fundamental equipment in modern longwall mining are the armoured face conveyor (AFC), powered supports and the shearer (coal cutting machine) (Figure 1).
Highwall mining is an adaptation of auger mining. Instead of an auger hole, an entry into the coal seam is made by a continuous miner, remotely operated from a cabin at the surface. The cut coal is transported by conveyors behind the miner to the outside. Using a television camera, the operator can see and control the miner's progress.
in the longwall highintensity mining of shallow coal seams. Based on continuous medium finite element numerical simulation analysis, the dynamic development of fractures cannot
The longwall machine's mine the coal in horizontal, "panels" that are 800 to 1,500 feet wide and 2 to 3 miles long. In longwall mines as the temporary support protecting the miners is advanced, the roof in the minedout area behind it collapse causing cracks and rock movement that reaches to the land surface hundreds of feet above.
Principle of advancing longwall. Advancing longwalls were once common in Europe in relatively thin seams where packs were constructed using stone, which had to be cut in order to produce sufficient height for the gate roads, and sometimes using coal fines which were not very marketable at one time. Usually a pillar of coal referred to as a ...
The general process of surface subsidence caused by longwall mining is as follows. The longwall face is mined to form a hollow area, ... Palchik, V. Analysis of main factors influencing the apertures of mininginduced horizontal fractures at longwall coal mining. Géoméch. Geophys. GeoEnergy GeoResour. 2020, 6, 37.
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