scholarly journals Structure Partition and Reasonable Width Determination of Waterproof Coal Pillar in Strip Mining

Lithosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (Special 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
Jian-biao Bai ◽  
Shuai Yan ◽  
Gui-qiang Pan ◽  
Dong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Mine Pressure ◽  
Failure Zone ◽  
Core Zone ◽  
Zone Width ◽  
Elastic Core ◽  
Pressure Failure

Abstract Retaining a waterproof coal pillar is the most effective water conservation method for a roadway close to the gob, and determining a reasonable width of the waterproof coal pillar has been a common problem among mining scholars for a considerably long time. Based on the mining of the 15208 mining face in Xinjing Coal Mine, the structure of waterproof coal pillar is divided into a mine-pressure-influenced plastic zone, an effective waterproof elastic core zone, and a water pressure failure zone. The mine-pressure-influenced plastic zone width is determined by using the limit equilibrium theory, the parabolic strength theory, and the separation variable method. The effective waterproof elastic core zone width is determined by the semi-inverse solution method, and the water pressure failure zone width is determined by considering the infiltration and softening of water. After that, combined with the previous theoretical analysis of engineering examples, the theoretical value of waterproof coal pillar width is obtained. In addition, the physical shape distribution of the waterproof coal pillar is measured by ultrasonic detection technology. The results are consistent with the field measured results. The correctness of the model is verified. Finally, the rationality of the model is verified by comparing with the previous classical models. The research results are applied to the design of the waterproof coal pillar in Xinjing Coal Mine, which could provide a theoretical basis for determining the width of the waterproof coal pillar located close to a gob.

scholarly journals Research on Evaluation Index and Application of Rockburst Risk in Deep Strip Mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bangyou Jiang ◽  
Hongguang Ji ◽  
Long Fu ◽  
Shitan Gu ◽  
Tong Zou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Strip Mining ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Research On Evaluation ◽  
Mechanics Model ◽  
Evolution Characteristics ◽  
Comprehensive Index Method

The practice shows that deep strip mining induces rockburst disaster easily. Accurately evaluating rockburst risk of the strip coal pillar is of great significance for ensuring the safety of deep strip mining. In this paper, the catastrophe mechanics model was used to analyze the abrupt instability condition of strip coal pillar. And the three indicators that are the medium stiffness ratio (k) of the elastic and plastic zone in the coal pillar, the plastic zone width ratio (aY), and the elastic deformation index (Uq) of core zone were put forward with considering the geometry size of coal pillar. Based on the 3202 panel of Gucheng Coal Mine, the evolution characteristics of rockburst risk of coal pillar under different mining widths and coal pillar widths were studied by numerical simulation. The evaluation result shows that the strip coal pillar of the 3202 panel is in danger of strong rockburst, which is more in line with the actual situation than the results of the traditional rockburst tendency identification test and comprehensive index method. These three indicators can be regarded as important indicators to evaluate the rockburst risk in the strip mining engineering field. Based on that, the design principle of strip mining in Gucheng Coal Mine was put forward, which is considered an important reference for similar cases.

scholarly journals Roadway Surrounding Rock under Multi-Coal-Seam Mining: Deviatoric Stress Evolution and Control Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Dongdong Chen ◽  
En Wang ◽  
Shengrong Xie ◽  
Fulian He ◽  
Long Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Deviatoric Stress ◽  
Mine Pressure ◽  
Coal Face ◽  
Surrounding Rock Control ◽  
Seam Mining ◽  
Peak Value

Multi-coal-seam mining creates surrounding rock control difficulties, because the mining of a coal face in one seam can affect coal faces in another. We examine the effects of multi-coal-seam mining on the evolution of the deviatoric stress distribution and plastic zone in the roadway surrounding rock. In particular, we use numerical simulation, theoretical calculation, drilling detection, and mine pressure observation to study the distribution and evolution characteristics of deviatoric stress on Tailgate 8709 in No. 11 coal seam in Jinhuagong mine when the N8707 and N8709 coal faces in No. 7-4 coal seam and the N8707 and N8709 coal faces in No. 11 coal seam are mined. The evolution laws of deviatoric stress and the plastic zone of roadway surrounding rock in the advance and behind sections of the coal face are studied, and a corresponding control technology is proposed. The results show that the peak value of deviatoric stress increases with the advance of the coal face, and the positions of the peak value of deviatoric stress and the plastic zone become deeper. The deflection angle of the peak stress after mining at each coal face and the characteristics of the peak zone of deviatoric stress and the plastic zone of the roadway surrounding rock under the disturbance of multi-coal-seam mining are determined. In conclusion, the damage range in the roadway roof in the solid-coal side and coal pillar is large and must be controlled. A combined support technology based on high-strength and high pretension anchor cables and truss anchor cables is proposed; long anchor cables are used to strengthen the support of the roadway roof in the solid-coal side and coal pillar. The accuracy of the calculated plastic zone range and the reliability of the combined support technology are verified through drilling detection and mine pressure observation on site. This research can provide a point of reference for roadway surrounding rock control under similar conditions.

scholarly journals Controlling the Deformation of a Small Coal Pillar Retaining Roadway by Non-Penetrating Directional Pre-Splitting Blasting with a Deep Hole: A Case Study in Wangzhuang Coal Mine

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 3084
Author(s):  
Shixing Cheng ◽  
Zhanguo Ma ◽  
Peng Gong ◽  
Kelong Li ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Longwall Mining ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Field Application ◽  
Vertical Stress ◽  
Mine Pressure ◽  
Deep Hole ◽  
Fracture Length

In longwall mining of coal mines, the large deformation of small pillar retaining roadways creates difficulties for the safe and efficient retreating of the mining panel. Based on the engineering background of a small coal pillar retaining roadway in Wangzhuang coal mine, pressure relief technology for non-penetrating directional pre-splitting blasting with a deep hole ahead was proposed. The influence of the non-penetrating fracture length on the pre-splitting effect was studied by numerical simulation. The results showed that the vertical stress in the coal pillar center, the small pillar retaining roadway deformation, and the energy accumulation on the pillar decreased with an increase in the non-penetrating fracture length. The vertical stress at the working face end increased with an increase in the non-penetrating fracture length. The field application and monitoring results indicated that non-penetrating directional pre-splitting blasting could effectively control the deformation of small pillar retaining roadways. The roof-to-floor and rib-to-rib maximum convergences of the 6208 tail entry were reduced by 53.66% and 52.62%, respectively, compared to the results with no blasting. The roadway section met the demands of mining panel high-efficiency retreating, thereby demonstrating the rationality of the technical and numerical simulation results. The research results shed light on the improvement of small coal pillar retaining roadway maintenance theory and technology.

scholarly journals Research on the Influence of Slurry Filling on the Stability of Floor Coal Pillars during Mining above the Room-and-Pillar Goaf: A Case Study

Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Zhu Li ◽  
Guorui Feng ◽  
Jiaqing Cui
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Working Face ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Safe Mining ◽  
Upward Mining

Room-and-pillar mining is a commonly used mining method in previous practice in northwest China mining area. Due to priority selection of high-quality resources, coal mines in northwest China generally have to face upward mining above goaf. Thus, the stability of a floor coal pillar influenced by mining activities plays an essential role in upward mining above goaf. The results indicated that a floor coal pillar kept stable before coal excavation in the no. 6107 working face in the Yuanbaowan coal mine; however, the plastic zone in the floor coal pillar expanded sharply and the elastic core zone reduced suddenly on the influence of abutment pressure. Finally, the floor coal pillar supported failure. Accordingly, the paper proposed a floor coal pillar reinforcing technique through a grout injection filling goaf area. As physically limited by a different-height filling body on the double sides, the plastic zone scope and horizontal displacement and loading capacity of the floor coal pillar were studied, working out that the critical height of the filling body should be about 6 m which can ensure safe mining when upward mining above goaf. Case practice indicated that the fractures induced by mining in the floor coal pillar, filling body, and floor can be restrained effectively when the filling body height is 6 m, which can ensure floor coal pillar stability and safe mining of the no. 6107 working face in the Yuanbaowan coal mine. The research can provide theoretical and technical guidance for upward mining above goaf and have a critical engineering practice value.

Principle of Well-Net Design for Coalbed Methane Exploitation in Coal Mine Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 543-547 ◽  
pp. 3967-3973
Author(s):  
Bao Shan Han
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Coalbed Methane ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Surface Condition ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
In Situ Stress ◽  
Well Location

There are abundant CBM (Coalbed Methane) in China. These CBM has caused a remarkable problem to the coal-mining in China. In order to improve the structure of Chinese energy and eliminate the risk of coal mine gas, the relevant industries and sections have implemented many explorations in CBM enriched areas. With great achievements, there are many important problems in the actions of CBM exploitation. The disadvantageous interaction of the surface CBM well and the later coal mining has been ignored at all. There are many disadvantages and defects. To solve these problems and eliminate or weaken the disadvantageous, the scientific and reasonable design of surface CBM well location is an important step. With the thinking of surface condition, coal mining plan, the arrangement of coal mine laneway, the direction and scale of the in-situ stress, and thinking more about the negative influence to and of surface CBM well, according to the theories of mining dynamics, mining engineering, mining geomechanics, and the CBM engineering, the design theory of the surface CBM well net can be studied. Finally, the arrangement principle of CBM product well in coal field is presented. The existing or future coal pillar will be a critical location for the surface CBM well location.

scholarly journals Prediction of the First Weighting from the Working Face Roof in a Coal Mine Based on a GA-BP Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4159
Author(s):  
Tan ◽  
Yang ◽  
Chang ◽  
Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Bp Neural Network ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Initial Pressure ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Mine Pressure ◽  
Mine Production ◽  
Production Safety ◽  
Matlab Programming

The accidents caused by roof pressure seriously restrict the improvement of mines and threaten production safety. At present, most coal mine pressure forecasting methods still rely on expert experience and engineering analogies. Artificial neural network prediction technology has been widely used in coal mines. This new approach can predict the surface pressure on the roof, which is of great significance in coal mine production safety. In this paper, the mining pressure mechanism of coal seam roofs is summarized and studied, and 60 sets of initial pressure data from multiple working surfaces in the Datong mining area are collected for gray correlation analysis. Finally, 12 parameters are selected as the input parameters of the model. Suitable back propagation (BP) and GA(genetic algorithm)-BP initial roof pressure prediction models are established for the Datong mining area and trained with MATLAB programming. By comparing the training results, we found that the optimized GA-BP model has a larger determination coefficient, smaller error, and greater stability. The research shows that the prediction method based on the GA-BP neural network model is relatively reliable and has broad engineering application prospects as an auxiliary decision-making tool for coal mine production safety.

scholarly journals Mechanical Model of the Initial Leg Pressure Increment of the Shield and Its Application to Monitor Roof Load in Longwall Panels

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Like Wei
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Pressure Difference ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Main Roof ◽  
Mine Pressure ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Pressure Increment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Leg Pressure

The shield pressure cannot always be used to represent the upper load of longwall panels, since its value is steady or even decreases by the yielding action. However, the leg pressure increment of the shield (LPIS) at the initial stage is not influenced by yielding and could therefore be an important factor to judge the state of overlying loads. In this study, a mechanical model is established to analyze the relationship between the overlying loads of the main roof and LPIS after cutting. There is a linear positive correlation between leg pressure increment and overlying loads and a second-order relationship between leg pressure increment and length of main roof cantilever in the proposed model. Therefore, it can be used to determine the magnitude of roof weighting strength in different periods as well as the length of the main roof cantilever in a period. Finally, the mine pressure difference between the period of fully mechanized mining and the period of fully mechanized caving mining in the MinDong-1 coal mine serves to verify the rationality of the proposed model.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on Mechanical Behavior of a New Backfilling Material: Cement-Treated Marine Clay

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Zhou ◽  
Shenyang Ouyang ◽  
Qiangqiang Cheng ◽  
Feng Ju
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Confining Pressure ◽  
Secant Modulus ◽  
Marine Clay ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Strata Control ◽  
Strain Behavior ◽  
Versus Strain ◽  
Overlying Strata

Backfilling mining method is an overlying strata control way, which is widely used in underground coal mine. This method is effective in preventing and controlling geological disasters such as surface subsidence, mine water inrush, rock burst, and other disasters. Cement-treated marine clay (CMC) is a typical porous media, which has abundant reserves and can be used as a new backfilling material. Therefore, the mechanical characteristics of CMC are very important for overlying strata control in coal mine. To investigate stress-strain behavior of CMC, isotropic consolidated drained (CID) triaxial test and isotropic compression test (ICT) were conducted with different confining pressures in the range of 50–800 kPa. Stress-strain behavior was found similar to those of the overconsolidated stress-strain behavior as well as the pore water pressure versus strain. Stress versus strain curves under lower confining pressure 50–250 kPa presented shear dilatancy. The result shows that the peak strength increased linearly with increasing confining pressure. The internal friction angle and cohesion are 48° and 590 kPa, respectively. Before the confining pressure reaches 727 kPa, which is the primary yielding point, the secant modulus E1 (the secant modulus at 1% axial strain) and the secant modulus E50 (corresponding to the 50% of the peak point) increase initially and decrease afterwards with the increasing of confining pressure. Afterwards, the two parameters increased with increasing confining pressure. The yielding stress occurred in the stage, generating a dramatic decrease in tangent modulus. This study can be a theoretical basis for engineering application of this new backfilling material.

scholarly journals Deflection Mechanism and Safety Analysis of Coal Mine Shaft in Deep Soil Strata

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jihuan Han ◽  
Jiuqun Zou ◽  
Chenchen Hu ◽  
Weihao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Coal Pillar ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Deep Soil ◽  
Mine Shaft ◽  
Dynamic Prediction ◽  
Probability Integral Method ◽  
Mining Conditions ◽  
Shaft Deflection

The main shaft and auxiliary shaft in the Guotun Coal Mine underwent large deflections, with deflection values of 359 mm and 322 mm, respectively. These two deflections represent the first occurrence of such large vertical shaft deviations in the soil strata in China. The deflection problem has seriously affected the hoisting safety and lining safety and has become a serious impediment to the sustainable production of mines. Therefore, the deflection mechanism must be determined. For this purpose, based on mining subsidence theory, the spatial probability integral method and a more accurate time function were used to establish a model, called 3D dynamic prediction model, for predicting the shaft movement. The formulas for calculating the lining stress caused by coal mining were based on established models. With measured shaft deflection data, the prediction parameters for deep soil strata were calculated on the basis of an inversion analysis. A comparative analysis of measured and calculated deflection values revealed that the reason for shaft deflection in Guotun Coal Mine is the insufficient size of the protection coal pillar (PCP); namely, the design parameters of the PCP in current codes are not applicable to the deep soil strata. As a result, under the asymmetric mining conditions, mining causes the shaft to deflect without damage and under the symmetric mining conditions, mining causes the lining to fracture. The results have an extremely important significance for the prevention and control of shaft deflection, for the rational design of PCP, and for the sustainability of mine production.

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