A PROFICIENT DETECTION AND RESCUE ASSISTING SYSTEM TO COMBAT FIRE ACCIDENTS OCCURRING IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES

Shirazuddin Shirazuddin,Syed Musthak Ahmed

doi:10.29121/ijetmr.v5.i5.2018.235

Abstract

Working in the field of Coal Mining (CM) is well known and considered among the most dangerous occupations when matched to many other industrial sectors[1], the safety issues associated with the CM workings gets worse when mining is carried out in the underground environment. In addition to the dangers coupled with the fall of roof, side walls and other harsh conditions in the Underground Coal Mine (UCM), the UCM suffers with additional threats such as the gas leakages, heating of coal and the other causes of fire accidents. All these factors raise concerns on improving the safety in the UCMs. The paper presented here focuses and recommends a safety system to tackle the accidents due to fire and to form a rescue assisting system.

Highlights

In order to develop an efficient fire – fighting and rescue assisting system, it is required to set up efficient plans to tackle the unexpected events which can result in fire accidents
To reduce the probability of the fire accidents and the losses thereafter, one of the efficient ways is to develop a system which has effective fire preparedness and a system which is fast responsive in not just detecting the fire accidents and in alerting the monitoring station or any associated authorized department of safety and taking measures such as extinguishing fire by suitable extinguishers and confining fire in a small area through the use of fire blocking gate which is the basic idea of the research work summarized in this paper
The research work proposes an implementation of the wireless communication system through the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) to accomplish the task of communicating the sensor information about the possible detection of fire to the monitoring station or safety department located anywhere around the world as long as there is an availability of internet service and connection between the safety unit and the overall system

Summary

Introduction

Out of the many large number of industries such as the Construction, Automobiles, Transport Systems, Financial Services and Banking, Chemical Industries, Telecommunication, Pharmaceutical Industries, Public Administration, Entertainment and Recreation, Information Technology, Entertainment and Recreation etc., which has contributes and plays their role efficiently in participating nation’s development by creating employment, improving the way of living, increasing country’s GDP and safety etc., there is yet one industry which not just creates employment or increases country’s GDP and contributes in fulfilling the nation’s demand of energy as one of the most abundant source of energy; the industry is the CM industry which has not just accounted in meeting India’s energy needs of about 55% [2] and meeting 41% of global electricity through power driven by coal – fired power plants [3]. To reduce the probability of the fire accidents and the losses thereafter, one of the efficient ways is to develop a system which has effective fire preparedness and a system which is fast responsive in not just detecting the fire accidents and in alerting the monitoring station or any associated authorized department of safety and taking measures such as extinguishing fire by suitable extinguishers and confining fire in a small area through the use of fire blocking gate which is the basic idea of the research work summarized in this paper

Methodology

Block Diagram and Working

Results

Conclusion