scholarly journals Mechanism of Secondary Breakage in the Overlying Strata during Repetitious Mining of an Ultrathick Coal Seam in Design Stage

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Li ◽  
Dongsheng Zhang ◽  
Shuyin Jiang ◽  
Gangwei Fan ◽  
Mengtang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Mining Method ◽  
Joint Stability ◽  
Mechanical Models ◽  
Physical Simulations ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Overlying Strata

When designing the mining of an ultrathick coal seam, the laws governing movement in the overlying strata during mining are a fundamental issue based on which several problems are addressed, including determining the mining method and the roadway arrangement, controlling the surrounding strata, and selecting the devices. The present paper considers possible problems related to strata overlying a large mining space subjected to repeated disturbances during the mining of an ultrathick coal seam, including repeatedly broken strata and the existence or inexistence of the structure. The BM coal seam in the No. 2 coal mine of the Dajing mining area in the East Junggar coalfield is studied. Physical simulations are performed on the movements of the overlying strata during slicing mining of the ultrathick coal seam, revealing the new feature of “break-joint stability-instability-secondary breakage” in the overlying strata. Mechanical models are constructed of the secondary breakage of the overlying strata blocks under both static and impact loading, and mechanical criteria are proposed for such breakage. Based on the research findings, methods for controlling the surrounding strata during slicing mining of an ultrathick coal seam are proposed, including increasing the mining rate and designing reasonable heights for the slicing mining.

scholarly journals A Mechanical Model of the Overlying Rock Masses in Undersea Coal Mining and a Stress-Seepage Coupling Numerical Simulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Fang ◽  
Lei Tian ◽  
Yanyan Cai ◽  
Zhiguo Cao ◽  
Jinhao Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Water Inrush ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Fractured Zones ◽  
Working Face ◽  
Seam Mining ◽  
Overlying Strata

The water inrush of a working face is the main hidden danger to the safe mining of underwater coal seams. It is known that the development of water-flowing fractured zones in overlying strata is the basic path which causes water inrushes in working faces. In the engineering background of the underwater mining in the Longkou Mining Area, the analysis model and judgment method of crack propagation were created on the basis of the Mohr–Coulomb criterion. Fish language was used to couple the extension model into the FLAC3d software, in order to simulate the mining process of the underwater coal seam, as well as to analyze the initiation evolutionary characteristics and seepage laws of the fractured zones in the overlying strata during the advancing processes of the working face. The results showed that, during the coal seam mining process, the mining fractured zones which had been caused by the compression-shear and tension-shear were mainly concentrated in the overlying strata of the working face. Also, the open-off cut and mining working face were the key sections of the water inrush in the rock mass. The condition of the water disaster was the formation of a water inrush channel. The possible water inrush channels in underwater coal mining are mainly composed of water-flowing fractured zones which are formed during the excavation processes. The numerical simulation results were validated through the practical engineering of field observations on the height of water-flowing fractured zone, which displayed a favorable adaptability.

Research on the Overlying Strata in Full-Mechanized Coal Mining of Datong Jurassic Coal Multi-Layer Goaf

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 402-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Chun Xia ◽  
Guo Sheng Gao ◽  
Bin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Mechanics Model ◽  
Roof Structure ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Seam Mining ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Overlying Strata

According to the specific geological conditions in themulti-layer worked-out areas of Yongding coal seam, by the methods of integration of theoretic analysis, numerical value calculation and so on, we studied movement law of Overlaying Strata and influence of coal pillar in Coal seam mining, obtained the basic law of the overlying strata movement in multiplayer, provides a theoretical basis for the safe and efficient exploitation of the success of multiplayer. Many mining area in China is mining of closed distance coal seam group, By the impact of coal seam in the overlying, face and the tunnel roof structure will be different injury in sub-coal seam mining, Roof structure has changed greatly, even damage and easily take the roof leakage, When the the goaf communication with the overlying coal seams, caused by the induced secondary disasters such as face air leakage, Therefore, exploitation of the law of motion of the overlying strata in the multiplayer is a pressing problem. Exploitation multiplayer seam few theoretical and technical foundation at home and abroad, affecting the validity of the mining, rationality. although a lot of research on theory and technology of coal mining over the years[1~5], But it was not able to an overall comprehensive analysis of upper goaf adjacent goaf and overlying the coal pillar and present mining face, create a dynamic structural mechanics model, which is likely to cause the occurrence of disasters.

Study on Similar Simulation of the Roof Strata Movement Laws of the Large Mining Height Workface in Shallow Coal Seam

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 1318-1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Wei Xing ◽  
Xuan Min Song ◽  
Yu Ping Fu
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Supporting Pressure ◽  
Immediate Roof ◽  
Large Mining Height ◽  
Roof Strata ◽  
Basic Roof ◽  
Mining Height ◽  
Similar Simulation ◽  
Overlying Strata

Based on the condition of No.1-2 coal seam of Shang Wan Coal Mine Shendong mining area, the movement of the overlying strata of the 7.0m large mining height workface have been studied by similar simulation test, which geometric similarity ratio is 1:50.The results show that: the immediate roof strata caves stratified to loose blocks, and the goaf can’t be filled with these loose blocks; the basic roof strata caves stratified too, the lower slice caves to loose blocks, it evolves into the immediate roof and widen the immediate roof; there is the periodic weighting phenomenon of size alternating in the large mining height workface of No.1-2 coal seam ; the immediate roof and the basic roof and the overlying strata of basic roof have different characteristics of caving; the large mining height workface has a greater sphere of supporting pressure than the traditional small height workface, the peak supporting pressure of the large mining height workface is more depth to the coalwall than the average mining height workface, and this led to workface roof strata fracture further ahead.

Water inflow characteristics of coal seam mining aquifer in Yushen mining area, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Chunhu ◽  
Jin Dewu ◽  
Wang Qiangmin ◽  
Wang Hao ◽  
Li Zhixue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Water Inflow ◽  
Seam Mining

scholarly journals Investigation of the kinetics of spontaneous combustion of the major coal seam in Dahuangshan mining area of the Southern Junggar coalfield, Xinjiang, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Shen ◽  
Qiang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Spontaneous Combustion ◽  
Heating Temperature ◽  
Characteristic Temperature ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
Coal Oxidation ◽  
Increasing Temperature

AbstractIn the present paper, with using diverse methods (including the SEM, the XRD, the TPO, the FTIR, and the TGA) , the authors analysed samples of the major coal seam in Dahuangshan Mining area with different particle sizes and with different heated temperatures (from 50 to 800 °C at regular intervals of 50 °C). The results from SEM and XRD showed that high temperature and high number of pores, fissures, and hierarchical structures in the coal samples could facilitate oxidation reactions and spontaneous combustion. A higher degree of graphitization and much greater number of aromatic microcrystalline structures facilitated spontaneous combustion. The results from TPO showed that the oxygen consumption rate of the coal samples increased exponentially with increasing temperature. The generation rates of different gases indicated that temperatures of 90 °C or 130 °C could accelerate coal oxidation. With increasing temperature, the coal oxidation rate increased, and the release of gaseous products was accelerated. The FTIR results showed that the amount of hydroxide radicals and oxygen-containing functional groups increased with the decline in particle size, indicating that a smaller particle size may facilitate the oxidation reaction and spontaneous combustion of coal. The absorbance and the functional group areas at different particle sizes were consistent with those of the heated coal samples, which decreased as the temperature rose. The results from TGA showed that the characteristic temperature T3 declined with decreasing particle size. After the sample with 0.15–0.18 mm particle size was heated, its carbon content decreased, and its mineral content increased, inhibiting coal oxidation. This result also shows that the activation energy of the heated samples tended to increase at the stage of high-temperature combustion with increasing heating temperature.

Numerical Analysis on Top Coal Caving of 2# Coal Seam in First Mine of Chagannaoer

2012 ◽  
Vol 594-597 ◽  
pp. 1338-1342
Author(s):  
Qing Hai Li ◽  
Ren Shu Yang ◽  
Wei Ping Shi
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Mining Technology ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Numerical Software ◽  
Evolution Laws ◽  
Overlying Strata

In first mine of Chagannaoer, 2# coal seam, the mainly mined out layer, was 22.00m thickness in average. In order to meet the requirements of production ability, the mine was planned to apply mining technology of fully mechanized caving. Good or bad of top coal’s caving was an important prerequisite which decided the mining technology of top coal caving could be chosen or not. Due to lack of producing mines in this region and no experience to refer, we simulated the mining process of 2# coal seam using numerical software of FLAC3D, and gained evolution laws of stress and displacement of top coal and overlying strata and expansion laws of plastic zone. Through analysis, we got that the top coal damaged seriously and the top coal could be caved smoothly. Relying on the geological conditions of site, we verified the simulated results with method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Combined with the research results, we decided that 2# coal seam’s caving was better and was convenient for top coal caving, so it was suitable for caving mining in 2# coal seam in first mine of Chagannaoer.

Computational fluid dynamics optimization of gas drainage technology in gas-mining areas

2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872110635
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Wei Qin
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Horizontal Distance ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Working Face ◽  
Gas Seepage

Coal mining results in strata movement and surrounding rock failure. Eventually, manual mining space will be occupied by the destructed coal rock, making it difficult to conduct field tests of the coal seam to explore gas seepage and transport patterns. Therefore, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical computation is an important tool for such studies. From the aspect of gas pre-drainage, for layer-through boreholes in the floor roadway of the 8,406 working face in Yangquan Mine 5 in China, reasonable layout parameters were obtained by CFD optimization. For effectively controlling the scope of boreholes along coal seam 9 in the Kaiyuan Mine, CFD computation was performed. The results revealed that the horizontal spacing between boreholes should be ≤2 m when a tri-quincuncial borehole layout is used. Optimization of the surface well position layout for the fault structure zone in the Xinjing Mine of the Yangquan mining area indicated that the horizontal distance between the surface well and the fault plane should be <150 m. From the aspect of gas drainage with mining-induced pressure relief, CFD computation was performed for pressure-relieved gas transport in the K8205 working face of Yangquan Mine 3. The results showed that forced roof caving should be used before the overhang length of hard roof reaches 25 m in the K8205 working face to avoid gas overrun. From the aspect of gas drainage from the abandoned gob, surface well control scopes at different surface well positions were computed, and an O-ring fissure zone is proposed as a reasonable scope for the surface well layout. CFD computation has been widely applied to coal and gas co-extraction in the Yangquan mining area and has played a significant role in guiding related gas drainage engineering practice.

scholarly journals Calculation Method of Overburden Damage Height Based on Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Soft and Hard Rock Layers

Geofluids ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Chen ◽  
Shaowu Fan ◽  
Can Zhao ◽  
Lang Zhang ◽  
Zhiheng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Mechanics ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Calculation Method ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Overburden Rock ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Mechanics Analysis ◽  
Seam Mining

Under the geological condition of soft and hard rock interaction stratum, the overburden damage height can provide a quantitative support for the design of the locations of gas drainage boreholes in the roof mining fracture zone and the determination of the hydraulic fracture zone in coal seam mining. The interbedded structure of overlying mud rock and sandstone in the Lu’an mining area in Shanxi is a typical soft and hard rock interaction stratum. In view of the lack of soft rock fracture mechanics analysis and the improper calculation of the damage height of overburden rock caused by constant rock residual bulking coefficient to be used regularly in the analysis, in this paper, we constructed a fracture model of soft and hard strata by giving a quantitative classification criterion of soft and hard rocks and introducing a fracture failure criterion of soft rock strata and the space constraint condition of broken-expansion rock formation. Aiming at improving the calculation precision of overburden damage height, we presented a calculation method based on fracture mechanics analysis of soft and hard strata, which could delineate the extent of intact rock in overlying strata from bottom to top to determine the damage height of overburden rock. This research took Yuwu coal mine in Lu’an mining area as an example. Results showed that (1) by the calculation method, the overburden damage height of the N1102 fully mechanized caving face in Yuwu coal mine was 51.44 m, which was less than the value obtained by an actual borehole TV method as well as the numerical simulation result of 53.46 m, with a calculation accuracy about 96.22%, which is quite high for both. The calculation accuracy of the proposed method was higher than that of the three conventional theoretical methods, and it effectively solved the limitation of the fracture analysis method without the inclusion of the soft rock layer in design and the distortion problem due to the residual bulking coefficient to be improperly used in simulation. (2) There was no noticeable fractures in the broken soft rock zone, and the whole fractures were mainly low-angle rupture; the fractures in hard rock layer had obvious ruptures and multiangle cracks, and the average fracture width of soft rock was 2.8 mm smaller than that of hard rock. The fracture modes of soft rock and hard rock were mainly tensile failure and tensile shear failure, which verified the correctness of the fracture mechanics model of soft and hard rock layers constructed in this paper. (3) It is noticed that the tensile strength of rock in this method needs to be obtained through rock mechanics experiment on overlying strata in the study area, and our proposed method was applicable to the mining conditions of near horizontal coal seam. The calculation accuracy of this method meets the engineering error requirements and can be applied to the prediction of overburden damage height in near horizontal coal seam mining.

New Technology of Surface Subsidence Control and Environmental Protection Research in Coal Mining Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 1385-1394
Author(s):  
Cheng Rong Jiang ◽  
Liu Yang ◽  
Hao Xie ◽  
Hua Yi Huang ◽  
De Ke Sun
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Industrial Test ◽  
Surface Subsidence ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Surface Subsidence Control ◽  
Fissure Water ◽  
Overlying Strata

In combination with the geological conditions of Tie'er mining area in Tangshan coal mining, this paper not only analyzes the evolution of overlying strata structure in stope and the development law of overlying strata separation, also proposes a new continuous grouting technology with large flow and high concentration slurry. The industrial test showed that, when the grout-mining ratio of the whole mining area is 25.3%, the reducing subsidence ratio is 51.5%, the effect of reducing the surface subsidence is good. According to the chemical analysis of water quality ingredients of slurry, the test result showed, heavy metals contents in fly-ash slurry water do not exceed the standard, which has no bad effect on the fissure water in the bedrock.

scholarly journals Study on the Law of Surface Cracks While Coal Mining in the Thin Bedrock and Thick Unconsolidated Layer of Yu-Shen-Fu Mining Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 03040
Author(s):  
Wu Zuoqi ◽  
Wang Guoku ◽  
Zhao Liqin
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Surface Cracks ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Thin Bedrock ◽  
The Law ◽  
Mining Face ◽  
Overlying Strata

The law of surface cracks caused by coal mining in ther thin bedrock and thick unconsolidated layer was studied in Yu-Shen-Fu mining area. The crack development in the overlying strata of the coal mining face was detected by drilling survey technology, the whole process of the ground surface crack dynamic evolution was carried out by similar material simulation, and the law of surface cracks evolution was verified by on-site tracking measurement. The study reached the regulation of the overlying strata failure and dynamic evolution of surface cracks caused by coal mining under thin bedrock and thick unconsolidated layer in Yu-Shen-Fu mining area, which can provide theoretical support for the ecological restoration of western mining area.

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