An investigation was undertaken to determine the distribution of macerals and minerals in South African Highveld coal deposits as well as density fractions derived from a typical deposit. The corresponding effects on carbon dioxide gasification reaction rates were also studied. Detailed chemical, petrographic and mineral analyses, followed by reactivity measurements and reaction rate modeling w...

Environment monitoring is important for the safety of underground coal mine production, and it is also an important application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We put forward an integrated environment monitoring system for underground coal mine, which uses the existing Cable Monitoring System (CMS) as the main body and the WSN with multi-parameter monitoring as the supplementary technique. ...

Green house gases emission associated with natural hazard of underground coal seam fire has been recognized as a worldwide problem leading to global warming threat. Therefore, in this paper a model to study underground coal fire is presented and the results will be devoted to strategic development of coal fire extinction technology within the framework of Sino-German Coal Fire Research Initiati...

Gasification technology is by no means new: in the 1850s, most of the city of London was illuminated by "town gas" produced from the gasification of coal. Nowadays, gasification is the main technology for biomass conversion to energy and an attractive alternative for the thermal treatment of solid waste. The number of different uses of gas shows the flexibility of gasification and therefore all...

Abstract This paper presents the main aspects of changing coal mining technology based on introduction underground gasification for mining-geological conditions occurrence State Enterprise “Lvivvuhillia” seams example “Chervonohradska” mine. When conducting analytical studies using “Material-heat balance gasification” software, predictive quantitative-qualitative indicators injected blast mixtu...

Automation in underground mining enhances safety and leads to economic efficiencies. After more than 50 years of research, automation tasks have gradually been growing out of the classic engineering/mechanical environment and require a sophisticated datamining treatment. The success of (mechanical) process automation has left only one remaining place in the coal-excavation process where human l...

To overcome the frequency-selective fading of ultra wide band (UWB) caused by the multi-path propagation in complicated environment of coal mines, an underground wireless communication system of UWB based on multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) for coal mine is presented. Independent angle impulse response is used to build up revised channel model for underground tunn...

Abstract This paper analyzed the current situation and development trends of energy consumption carbon emissions, trend coal in China. In context recently established peak neutralization targets, this put forward main problems associated with green low-carbon utilization coal. Five key technological innovation directions mining were proposed, including development, intelligent efficient mining,...

A most widespread method for coal gasification is the use of fluidized bed reactors. A new concept in recirculating fluidized bed gasification is the Judd twocompartment gasifier. The two compartments provide separated zones for gasification with steam and for combustion with air, within the same vessel. The circulation of inert solids transmits the heat from the combustion zone into the gasifi...