This paper describes successful industrial research and development in the area of underground coal mining equipment automation. A brief background to underground coal mining is given, and the process of longwall mining is detailed. Some of the major limitations and issues impacting on the productivity and safety of the longwall mining process are highlighted, which serve to motivate the automa...

This paper will propose a whole new viewpoint about building a CSPMS(Coal-mine Safety Production Management System) by means of information technology. This system whose core part is a four-grade automatic triggered warning system achieves the goal that information transmission will be smooth, nondestructive and in time. At the same time, the system provides a comprehensive and collective techn...

The long-term survival of Rhizobium phaseoli strains 127K17, 127K26, and 127K35 in legume inoculants prepared with eight different coals (one strain and one coal per inoculant) was studied. The coals used were Pennsylvania anthracite, bituminous coals from Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Utah, lignite from North Dakota and Texas, and subbituminous coals from New Mexico and Wyoming; they ranged in p...

Original scientific paper Laboratory tests were conducted to study coal spontaneous combustion at low-temperature (30 ÷ 200 °C) in the air of reduced oxygen (10 ÷ 21 %) and low methane concentrations (0 ÷ 3 %). The production of carbon monoxide in coal spontaneous combustion was analysed. The test results show that both oxygen and methane concentrations affect coal spontaneous combustion. At gi...

Traditional methods of coal seam gas drainage rely on the use of reservoir pressure reduction to promote gas desorption from the coal matrix. Studies in coal mining gas drainage operations, particularly in coal seams that are deeply undersaturated and have low permeability, found the rate of reservoir pressure reduction was prohibitively slow. In such conditions, lengthy production delays have ...

Abstract With the process of industrialization, a lot energy is consumed, and low-grade produced in process. To recover low grade heat from flue gas coal-fired power plants, organic Rankine cycle built improves utilization efficiency. Taking six working fluids, R245ca, R245fa, R123, R600, R601, R600a, as an example, referring to exhaust condition 300MW subcritical unit, analysed evaporation tem...