Study on mining the protective seam with the manless working face in coal and gas outburst mines

Abstract

In order to solve the problems of backward equipments, low recovery, security issues, high mortality in the coal industry, the technology of manless working face in mine which combined the traditional mining process with the automatic technology is proposed based on the scientized mining, meanwhile, the idea of exploiting the protective seam in the coal seam group of the coal and gas outburst mines with manless working face technology is also proposed so as to liberate other high gas coal seams. Then, making the third coal seam in Shaqu coal mine which is a coal and gas outburst mine as the protective seam was being exploited and carried out the designs which included roadway, equipments selection and mining process. Finally, based on the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, the gas extraction arrangements is designed, which provides the scientific basis and method for industrial experiment of the third coal seam.