Taking Renjiazhuang coal mine as the object of study, this paper carries on evaluation to destruction degree in this area by using extension theory and establishing evaluation extension model of land destruction in mining area. Results show that severe destruction area of collapse land in Renjiazhuang coal mine is 112.86hm, moderate destruction area is 372.27hm, light destruction area is 723.42...

This study was to investigate whether working in conditions of elevated concentrations of mine gases (CO2, CO, CH4, DMS) and dust may result in oxidative stress. Coal miners (n=94) from the Velenje Coal mine who were arranged into control group and three groups according to a number of consecutive working days. 8-isoprostane as a biological marker of oxidative stress was measured in exhaled bre...

The United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, through an informal partnership with industry, labor, and the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration, has developed and tested a new instrument known as the Personal Dust Monitor (PDM). The new dust monitor is an integral part of the cap lamp that coal miners normally carry to work and provides continuous info...

Coal mining and related industry can increase heavy metals (HMs) concentrations in soil, atmosphere and wheat, thereby posing metal-associated human health risk via food ingestion.  In this study, 58 samples of soil, wheat, and dust were collected from Xuzhou coal mine eastern China, six kinds of HMs Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, As and Cr were studied for their spatial distribution in wheat, enrichment in d...

Most coal and coal bearing strata contain significant quantities of gases. These gases are either potentially explosive in critical concentrations when mixed with air, others are toxic. Gases found in a mine are almost certainly a mixture of atmospheric air, inert gases, water vapour and one or more of the following: oxygen, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen and nitrous oxid...

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...

Coal mine belt conveyor can guarantee the coal mine production stable and efficient. On how to effectively predict abnormal accident occurrence time, this paper puts forward a method to predict the abnormal accident occurrence time based on Hidden Markov Model and Hidden Semi-Markov Model. Large amount of time series is collected through belt conveyor protection sensors. The corresponding HMM o...

Výpočet možnosti vzniku průtrže v dlouhých důlních dílech The article brings results of the evaluation of a possibility of coal and gas outburst origin on the basis of calculation of active forces that try to induce an outburst and passive forces that prevent an outburst from occurring. The analysis of outbursts from the Paskov Mine, Staříč plant, shows that decisive indicators, by which a pron...

Up until 30 years ago, coalminers relied on canaries as warning systems against harmful gases and pollutants underground. The miners listened for birdsong and if the birds fell silent, then they knew there was danger to their health and to take action. Today we have much more sophisticated information and reporting on the quality of air. We know precisely the levels and composition of pollutant...