Coal gangue is residual abandoned coal, produced after the pre-processing steps of mining. It is an amalgam of several unwanted substances. It is important to separate coal gangue from lump coal before fed to thermal power plants. In this paper, investigation on the fundamental characteristics of coal images and gangue images with digital image processing technology is proposed. The system dete...

Aim at the random problems of flying gangue movement in steeply dipping seam mining, based on the spherical flying gangue movement model, computational formula of collision restitution coefficient was established when flying gangue shocks bottom plate of working face according to the theory of Hertz classical elastic collision; Considering the influences of the randomness such as the density, r...

In order to detect coal gangue interface on fully mechanized mining face, a new method of vibration signal analysis of coal and gangue based on Hilbert-Huang transform is presented in this paper. At first Empirical mode decomposition algorithm was used to decompose the original vibration signal of coal and gangue into intrinsic modes for further extract meaningful information contained in respo...

Preliminary communication Spontaneous combustion in coal gangue dumps leads to pollution in the environment and damages ecosystem and human health. Mine operators usually fail to take effective measures against spontaneous combustion because of the inaccurate detection of the location of spontaneous combustion bursts. To address this issue, a control system of spontaneous combustion in coal gan...

A new method to detect coal gangue interface by utilizing vibration signal of coal and gangue is presented for coal and gangue interface detection on fully mechanized mining face. Because of non-stationary characteristics contained in response signals under complicated environment, empirical mode decomposition algorithm was used to decompose the original vibration signal into the intrinsic mode...

With the increase of social demand on environmental quality, the clean coal technology (CCT) is one of the most effective measures for environmental control. It is an important means in CCT to decrease the gangue content. Targeting at distinguishing the top-coal and gangue, this paper discussed coalgangue interface detection on fully mechanised mining face. The Hilbert marginal spectrum based o...

Environmental pollution caused by coal gangue has been a significant challenge for sustainable development; thus, many coal gangue reduction approaches have been proposed in recent years. In particular, coal gangue facility (CGF) construction has been considered as an efficient method for the control and recycling of coal gangue. Meanwhile, the identification and selection of suitable CGF sites...

The potential environmental hazards posed by trace elements have assumed serious proportions due to their toxicity, bioavailability and geochemical behavior. The toxicity and mobility of trace elements in coal gangue is dependent on the elements' chemical properties, therefore, the quantification of the different forms of trace elements is more significant than the estimation of their total con...

Heap leaching accounts for a fifth of global copper production, sourced primarily from porphyry ores, yet metal recoveries are often not optimal. Gangue, and its interaction with acid, plays an important role in such processes. Thus, a proper understanding of gangue minerals present in the ore, their textural relationships relative to particle size distribution, reactivity with acid under diffe...

The mining industry located along the fall line region of central Georgia has been and remains as one of the largest global exporters of the clay mineral kaolinite. Among the kaolin deposits in that region, the Cretaceous Buffalo Creek formation and the Eocene Jeffersonville member contain the most commercially viable kaolin to extract and process for resale. The minerals of the sand and silt f...