Automation in U.S. longwall coal mining: A state-of-the-art review
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2095-2686
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmst.2019.01.005