Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149828
Rukaiya Kausher, Anand Kumar Sinha, Rambabu Singh
The present research aims to address the drinking water crisis in the Mahan River catchment area resulting from the disruption of groundwater availability due to extensive coal mining. The study uses GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to map the groundwater potential of the area by analysing several factors that affect groundwater availability, including rainfall, water depth, geomorphology, geology, soil, land-cover/land-use, and topographic characteristics derived from DEM. The groundwater potential map created using the MCDA technique classified the area into low, moderate, and high groundwater potential zones. The map was validated and verified using water table depth and electrical conductivity values available in the region, indicating that it can be used to identify groundwater recharging sites. The study’s results show that about 30% of the area has high groundwater potential, and more than 45% of the area has moderate groundwater potential. The information derived from the study can be used for sustainable management and proper planning of groundwater resources in the Mahan River catchment area. Overall, the study presents a useful approach to address the groundwater depletion problem resulting from coal mining activities in the Mahan River catchment area.
本研究旨在解决马汉河集水区因大量煤炭开采导致地下水供应中断而引发的饮用水危机。研究采用基于地理信息系统的多标准决策分析(MCDA),通过分析影响地下水可用性的几个因素,包括降雨量、水深、地貌、地质、土壤、土地覆盖/土地利用以及从 DEM 得出的地形特征,绘制该地区的地下水潜力图。利用 MCDA 技术绘制的地下水潜势图将该地区分为低、中和高地下水潜势区。利用该地区现有的地下水位深度和电导率值对该地图进行了验证和核实,表明该地图可用于确定地下水补给点。研究结果表明,约 30% 的区域具有较高的地下水潜力,超过 45% 的区域具有中等的地下水潜力。研究得出的信息可用于马汉河集水区地下水资源的可持续管理和适当规划。总之,该研究为解决马汉河流域煤炭开采活动造成的地下水枯竭问题提供了一种有用的方法。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149830
Piotr Ostrogórski, P. Skotniczny
The article shows the results of research on methane concentration changes along mine galleries. The experiment was conducted in a longwall area mined using a U-type system, and the results were obtained in situ. The main goal was to measure methane concentration by function of gallery length and dividing segments of methane data into segments, which ultimately enabled separate analysis of these methane data. The analysis led to the diagnosis of methane hazard through the detection of exceedance of the assumed tolerance area.
文章展示了对矿井巷道沿线甲烷浓度变化的研究成果。实验是在使用 U 型系统开采的长壁区域进行的,结果是在现场获得的。主要目标是根据巷道长度的函数测量甲烷浓度,并将甲烷数据分段,最终对这些甲烷数据进行单独分析。分析结果通过检测超出假定容许范围的情况,诊断出甲烷危害。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149829
Stanisław Wasilewski, N. Szlązak, Paweł Jamróz
Methane explosions are one of the greatest hazards in the coal mining industry and have caused many accidents. On 27 July 2016 at approximately 11:01 a.m., an explosion of methane occurred at the bottom of Zygmunt return shaft at the depth of 411 metres. The explosion resulted in one casualty. The article presents the results of, and the conclusions from, an in-depth analysis of the changes in the parameters of mine air, especially methane concentration, air flow and the operation of mine fans, recorded by sensors installed in the workings and in Zygmunt ventilation shaft around the time of the accident. The analysis was based on signals recorded by the monitoring system, related to the evolution of methane and fire hazards prior to and after the accident occurred. An attempt was made to identify the cause and the circumstances of the methane explosion at the bottom of the return shaft.
{"title":"An Analysis of the Methane Explosion in the Area of the Return Shaft Bottom at Mine","authors":"Stanisław Wasilewski, N. Szlązak, Paweł Jamróz","doi":"10.24425/ams.2024.149829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ams.2024.149829","url":null,"abstract":"Methane explosions are one of the greatest hazards in the coal mining industry and have caused many accidents. On 27 July 2016 at approximately 11:01 a.m., an explosion of methane occurred at the bottom of Zygmunt return shaft at the depth of 411 metres. The explosion resulted in one casualty. The article presents the results of, and the conclusions from, an in-depth analysis of the changes in the parameters of mine air, especially methane concentration, air flow and the operation of mine fans, recorded by sensors installed in the workings and in Zygmunt ventilation shaft around the time of the accident. The analysis was based on signals recorded by the monitoring system, related to the evolution of methane and fire hazards prior to and after the accident occurred. An attempt was made to identify the cause and the circumstances of the methane explosion at the bottom of the return shaft.","PeriodicalId":55468,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Mining Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140744638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149833
Zhiqiang Yin, Chao Wang, Zhiyu Chen, Youxun Cao, Tao Yang, Deren Chen, Dengke Wang
The roadway surrounding rock is often subjected to severe damage under dynamic loading at greater mining depths. To study the dynamic response of prestressed anchors, the damage characteristics of anchor solids with different prestresses and number of impacts under dynamic and static loads were investigated by improving the Hopkinson bar equipment. The effect of prestress on stress wave transmission was obtained, and the laws and reasons for axial force loss under static and dynamic loads were analyzed. The damage characteristics of anchor solids were determined experimentally. The results show that with an increase in prestress from 15 to 30 MPa, the peak value of the stress wave gradually increases and the decay rate gradually decreases. Shear damage occurred at the impact end of the specimen, combined tension and shear damage occurred at the free end, and fracture occurred in the middle. With an increase in the number of impacts, the damage to the anchor solid specimens gradually increased, and the prestressing force gradually decreased. After impact, the axial force of the various prestressed anchor solid specimens gradually increased; however, the anchor bar with a 17 MPa prestressing force had the slowest rate of axial force loss during impact, withstanding a greater number of impacts. In on-site applications, after three explosions, the displacement on both sides of the tunnel supported by 17 MPa prestressed anchor rods could be controlled within 0.3 m, with an average displacement of 206, 240, and 283 mm, respectively, increasing by 16.5% and 17.9%. This study, based on theoretical analysis and laboratory research combined with field application provides guidance for the anchor support of a dynamic loading tunnel.
{"title":"Study on Mechanical Response Characteristics of Anchor under Dynamic Disturbance","authors":"Zhiqiang Yin, Chao Wang, Zhiyu Chen, Youxun Cao, Tao Yang, Deren Chen, Dengke Wang","doi":"10.24425/ams.2024.149833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ams.2024.149833","url":null,"abstract":"The roadway surrounding rock is often subjected to severe damage under dynamic loading at greater mining depths. To study the dynamic response of prestressed anchors, the damage characteristics of anchor solids with different prestresses and number of impacts under dynamic and static loads were investigated by improving the Hopkinson bar equipment. The effect of prestress on stress wave transmission was obtained, and the laws and reasons for axial force loss under static and dynamic loads were analyzed. The damage characteristics of anchor solids were determined experimentally. The results show that with an increase in prestress from 15 to 30 MPa, the peak value of the stress wave gradually increases and the decay rate gradually decreases. Shear damage occurred at the impact end of the specimen, combined tension and shear damage occurred at the free end, and fracture occurred in the middle. With an increase in the number of impacts, the damage to the anchor solid specimens gradually increased, and the prestressing force gradually decreased. After impact, the axial force of the various prestressed anchor solid specimens gradually increased; however, the anchor bar with a 17 MPa prestressing force had the slowest rate of axial force loss during impact, withstanding a greater number of impacts. In on-site applications, after three explosions, the displacement on both sides of the tunnel supported by 17 MPa prestressed anchor rods could be controlled within 0.3 m, with an average displacement of 206, 240, and 283 mm, respectively, increasing by 16.5% and 17.9%. This study, based on theoretical analysis and laboratory research combined with field application provides guidance for the anchor support of a dynamic loading tunnel.","PeriodicalId":55468,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Mining Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140741704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149831
Lei Shi, Weiyong Lu, Dong Lv
The destruction of rock under the condition of a close submerged jet has become a hot topic of scientific research and engineering application in the past decade. With the unremitting efforts of a large number of experts and scholars around the world, gratifying progress has been made in the research of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on the internal and external flow fields of the jet nozzle, the theoretical derivation of rock mechanics on the fracture initiation and propagation criteria of hydraulic fracturing, and the numerical simulation of jet erosion mechanism under the coupling of fluid and solid fields, however, for the rock mechanics hydraulic fracturing cutting engineering scale of non-oil drilling fracturing technology, the research on the fluid-solid coupling boundary conditions of fracturing fluid and hard dense rock under the flow state conditions of the submerged field inside and outside the borehole is not sufficient. In the calculation of the fluid-solid coupling boundary flow field under the non-submerged jet state, the control equation with Reynolds number between 2300-4000 shall be selected, while it belongs to the laminar flow state in the stage of hole sealing and pressurised fracturing. Therefore, Von-Mises equivalent plastic stress is selected in the mechanical model to calibrate the failure state of the rock-solid boundary, and the control equations of laminar flow and turbulent flow are selected to calibrate the fluid boundary. The mechanism of different stages of rock breaking by hydraulic fracturing jet can be further analysed in detail, and Comsol 6.0 multi-physical field simulation software is selected for verification. The research results will help deepen the understanding of rock breaking mechanism by jet and optimise the selection of parameters for field construction.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149826
Ke Gao, Qiwen Li, Lianzeng Shi, Aobo Yang, Zhipeng Qi
The roof-caving step scale goaf behind the working face is sensitive to the region’s spontaneous combustion and gas concentration distribution, including many rock block cracks and holes. A severe deviation from the dynamics of fluids in porous media by representative element volume (REV), leading to the results of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation, has a significant error. A heterogeneous two-dimensional pore network model was established to simulate the goaf flow accurately. The network was first created using the simple cubic lattice in the OpenPNM package, and the spatial distribution of the “O-ring” bulking factor was mapped to the network. The bulking factor and Weibull distribution were combined to produce the size distribution of the pore and throat in the network. The constructed pore network model was performed with single-phase flow simulations. The study determined the pore structure parameters of the pore network through the goaf’s risked falling characteristics and described the flow field’s distribution characteristics in the goaf. The permeability coefficient increases as pore diameter, throat diameter, pore volume and throat volume increase and increases as throat length decreases. The correlation between throat volume and permeability coefficient is the highest, which indicates that the whole throat is the main control factor governing the air transport capacity in the goaf. These results may provide some guidelines for controlling thermodynamic disasters in the goaf.
工作面后方的顶板掘进阶梯式岩层对该区域的自燃和瓦斯浓度分布非常敏感,包括许多岩块裂缝和孔洞。代表元素体积(REV)与多孔介质中的流体动力学严重偏离,导致计算流体动力学(CFD)模拟结果误差很大。为了精确模拟鹅卵石流,我们建立了一个异质二维孔隙网络模型。首先使用 OpenPNM 软件包中的简单立方晶格创建了该网络,并将 "O 型环 "膨胀因子的空间分布映射到该网络中。将膨胀因子和 Weibull 分布相结合,得出网络中孔隙和孔喉的大小分布。对构建的孔隙网络模型进行了单相流模拟。研究通过鹅卵石的冒落特征确定了孔隙网络的孔隙结构参数,并描述了流场在鹅卵石中的分布特征。渗透系数随孔隙直径、喉管直径、孔隙体积和喉管体积的增大而增大,随喉管长度的减小而减小。其中,喉管容积与渗透系数的相关性最大,这表明整个喉管是控制沼泽地空气输送能力的主要控制因素。这些结果可为控制沼泽热动力灾害提供一些指导。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149825
Oleksii Udovchenko, Jacek Blicharski, L. Matiishyn
The study examines the application of dry gas injection technology (cycling process) in different depletion stages (25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of the initial reservoir pressure, and the dew point pressure) at a gas condensate field. The injection took place with varying numbers of injection wells relative to production wells (4:1, 3:1, 2:1, 1:1, and 1:2). The study assessed the impact of dry gas injection periods, ranging from 1 to 3 years, on increasing the condensate recovery factor in a real gas condensate reservoir named X. A hydrodynamic model was used and calibrated with historical data, resulting in a comprehensive approach. Compared to the traditional depletion development method, this approach led to a significant 9% rise in the condensate recovery factor. The results indicate that injection has a positive effect on enhancing the recovery factor of condensate and gas when compared to primary development methods based on depletion. As a result, these findings facilitate a rapid evaluation of the possibility of introducing similar measures in gas-condensate reservoirs in the future for reservoir systems that have a low and moderate potential for liquid hydrocarbons C5+. The optimised multidimensional hydrodynamic calculations, utilising geological and technological models, are crucial in determining the parameters for the technological production and injection wells.
{"title":"A Case Study of Gas-Condensate Reservoir Performance with Gas Cycling","authors":"Oleksii Udovchenko, Jacek Blicharski, L. Matiishyn","doi":"10.24425/ams.2024.149825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ams.2024.149825","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the application of dry gas injection technology (cycling process) in different depletion stages (25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of the initial reservoir pressure, and the dew point pressure) at a gas condensate field. The injection took place with varying numbers of injection wells relative to production wells (4:1, 3:1, 2:1, 1:1, and 1:2). The study assessed the impact of dry gas injection periods, ranging from 1 to 3 years, on increasing the condensate recovery factor in a real gas condensate reservoir named X. A hydrodynamic model was used and calibrated with historical data, resulting in a comprehensive approach. Compared to the traditional depletion development method, this approach led to a significant 9% rise in the condensate recovery factor. The results indicate that injection has a positive effect on enhancing the recovery factor of condensate and gas when compared to primary development methods based on depletion. As a result, these findings facilitate a rapid evaluation of the possibility of introducing similar measures in gas-condensate reservoirs in the future for reservoir systems that have a low and moderate potential for liquid hydrocarbons C5+. The optimised multidimensional hydrodynamic calculations, utilising geological and technological models, are crucial in determining the parameters for the technological production and injection wells.","PeriodicalId":55468,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Mining Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140745110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149827
P. Strzałkowski, Marek Maruszczyk
The geopolitical situation in Europe has changed dramatically due to the war waged by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. This makes it necessary to become independent from supplies of mineral resources, especially energy from Russia. According to the authors, ensuring Poland’s energy security will require a longer use of coal as the primary energy resource than initially expected. The expected increase in energy demand may cause a negative energy balance in the country. Renewable energy sources dependent on weather conditions cannot with certainty ensure energy security. On the other hand, nuclear requires large financial outlays and a longer time for reactors’ construction. In addition, it has other disadvantages (the problem of waste, environmental impact in the event of a malfunction and the need to import uranium). In these circumstances, coal may be a raw material that meets the economic needs and ensures the energy security of the country.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149832
S. Tokarski, Antoni Tajduś
The paper discusses a variety of serious challenges facing the Polish energy sector until 2040. These challenging tasks largely result from intensive works in the European Union on the finalisation of measures implementing a zero-carbon economy, as well as social (Covid-19), political and military events, both global and regional (war in Ukraine). After analysing the present condition of the energy sector, the authors proposed a modification of Poland’s energy policy, pointing out that the transformation of the national electricity system towards zero-carbon energy requires, on the one hand, speeding up investments in renewable sources, but on the other hand, insuring this process by own controllable generation sources. The paper also defines the conditions that should be met to achieve the highest possible share of non-carbon energy in the national energy mix by 2040.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.24425/ams.2024.149824
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