Environmental concerns over increased coal consumption are fully justified by the past history of coal use. Although improved technology has provided some safeguards, increased utilization will require mining practices, emission control technologies, and waste disposal procedures that are not yet fully integrated into the routine use of the coal energy system. The Committee on Health and Evniro...

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...

Coal mining in India has a history of over 225 years. The industry currently occupies a covetable third ranking in the world league table of hard coal production after China and the USA. Mechanization has made possible major breakthroughs in coal mining technology. The record of production and productivity of Indian underground coal mines over the years is dismal, to say the least. At the time ...

Original scientific paper With the increase in mining depths and the occurrence of worsening conditions, deep, large-scale and rapid mining may lead to more complicated dynamic features for tunnels, making them vulnerable to dynamic disasters such as rock bursts and coal/gas outbursts with subsequent heavy damage and casualties. A three-dimensional structural mechanics model for deep stopes was...

Abstract: In order to find the main direction of energy saving and emission reduction in coal mine areas, this paper established a system dynamic model for energy consumption and environmental pollution produced in coal mining process, and took a typical coal mine as the case to simulate the energy saving and emission reduction in coal mining area. And through the analysis of simulation results...

Due to the increasing efforts on saving our natural environment a change in the structure of energy resources can be observed an increasing fraction of a renewable energy sources. In many countries traditional underground coal mining loses its significance but there are still countries, like Poland or Germany, in which the coal based technologies have the greatest fraction in a total energy pro...

Epidemiological studies indicate that living in proximity to coal mines is correlated with numerous diseases including cancer, and that exposure to PM10 and PM2.5 components could be associated with this phenomenon. However, the understanding of the mechanisms by which PM exerts its adverse effects is still incomplete and comes mainly from studies in occupationally exposed populations. The aims...

We used data from a survey of 16493 West Virginians merged with county-level coal production and other covariates to investigate the relations between health indicators and residential proximity to coal mining. Results of hierarchical analyses indicated that high levels of coal production were associated with worse adjusted health status and with higher rates of cardiopulmonary disease, chronic...

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