scholarly journals Speculum Observation and Trajectory Measurement in Gas Extraction Drilling: A Case Study of Changling Coal Mine

Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Enbiao Zhao ◽  
Kangnan Li ◽  
Xin Yang ◽  
Nan Deng
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Drilling Process ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Adjacent Layer ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
High Level ◽  
Trajectory Measurement ◽  
Drainage Borehole

Coal will still be China’s basic energy for quite a long time. With the increase of mining depth, gas content and pressure also increase. The problems of gas emission and overrun affect the safety and efficient production of coal resource to a certain extent. In this work, the field test of gas drainage borehole peeping and trajectory measurement in coal seam of Changling coal mine are carried out. These coal seams include C5b coal seam, upper adjacent C5a coal seam, C6a coal seams, C6c in lower adjacent strata, and C5b coal seam in high-level borehole. The view of gas drainage borehole peeping and trajectory measurement in the working seam, upper adjacent layer, lower adjacent layer, and high position are obtained. It is found that the hole collapses at the position of about 20 m in both adjacent strata and high-level boreholes, and there are a lot of cracks in the high-level boreholes before 12 m. The deviation distance of high-level borehole is large, and the actual vertical deviation of upper adjacent layer is small. Finally, the strategies to prevent the deviation of drilling construction are put forward. It includes four aspects: ensuring the reliability of drilling equipment, reasonably controlling the drilling length, standardizing the drilling, and reasonably selecting the drilling process parameters.

scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF METHANE DESORPTION ZONE FOR THE DESIGN OF A DRAINAGE BOREHOLE PATTERN (CASE STUDY: E4 PANEL OF THE TABAS MECHANIZED COAL MINE, IRAN)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Ali Hosseini ◽  
Mehdi Najafi
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Methane Emissions ◽  
Gas Content ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Methane Drainage ◽  
Tabas Coal Mine ◽  
Drainage Borehole

Underground coal mining is known as one of the major sources of methane emissions which mainly occurs after underground coal extraction. Rock strata in-situ methane can potentially be the most significant hazard in coal mining operations. To prevent or minimize the risks of methane emissions, methane drainage approaches have been adopted by coal mines. Rock mass methane drainage is the most efficient and effective approach toward controlling methane hazards as it prevents and reduces the frequency of methane emissions, outflows into the working area and sudden outbursts of methane and rocks. The method includes drilling boreholes from the tailgate side to the unstressed zone in the roof and floor strata above and below a working coal seam. The coal seam gas content in Tabas Parvadeh I is estimated to be about 16 m3 /t, which is relatively high. Based on exploration data, five distinct coal seams have been identified (B1, B2, C1, C2 and D) at the coal deposit and currently C1 is being worked. Considering the high value of C1 gas content and surrounding rocks, the Methane Drainage System (MDS) has been utilized for gas drainage. This paper tries to determine the desorption area which is essential and helpful for the selection of an effective drilling pattern into the adjacent coal seams. In this study, the methane drainage zone in the E4 panel of the Tabas coal mine was calculated using experimental equations and a drainage borehole pattern was determined.

scholarly journals Study on Gas Control Methods Optimization for Mining Safety

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Liwen He ◽  
Yingcheng Dai ◽  
Sheng Xue ◽  
Chunshan Zheng ◽  
Baiqing Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Mining Safety ◽  
Gas Control ◽  
Outburst Hazard

Effective gas control is of significance for safe efficient coal mining in Haizi Coal Mine and other mines with similar geological conditions. This study concentrates on gas control theories and techniques in multiple coal seams of Haizi Coal Mine (No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, and No. 10 coal seam from top to bottom). To minimize risk of high gas emission and outburst hazard, No. 10 seam was mined first as a protective seam prior to the mining of its overlying outburst-prone No. 7, No. 8, and No. 9 seam. Four gas drainage measures were determined for gas control, including cross-measure boreholes into overlying coal seams, surface goaf wells, roof boreholes, and roof gas drainage roadway. These gas control measures, if implemented through entire coal seam extraction, would be possibly uneconomic. An investigation was undertaken to analyze effects of those four measures on gas emission, methane concentration, and gas drainage quantity in No. 2 1024 mining panel of No. 10 seam. Results indicate that the highly expensive gas drainage measure of a roof roadway has poor drainage performance and could be effectively replaced by roof boreholes. When adopting the optimized combination of gas drainage measures, drainage efficiency of No. 7 seam, No. 8 seam, and No. 9 seam could reach 58.64% and decrease gas pressure to be below 0.74 MPa. Outcomes of this study could provide beneficial guidance not only for gas drainage design optimization in Haizi Coal Mine but also for other multiple-seam mines with similar mining and geological conditions, for increasing gas drainage efficiency and guaranteeing mining safety.

scholarly journals Prediction Model for Spontaneous Combustion of Coal around Boreholes Using Bedding Gas Drainage

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Youxin Zhao ◽  
Qingjie Qi ◽  
Xinlei Jia
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Negative Pressure ◽  
Spontaneous Combustion ◽  
Orthogonal Test ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Positive Linear Correlation ◽  
Drainage Hole ◽  
Spontaneous Combustion Of Coal ◽  
Fractured Coal

To accurately and reliably predict the time of spontaneous combustion of fractured coal around a borehole induced by gas drainage along the seam, this study performed an orthogonal test taking the No. 10 Coal Mine of Pingdingshan as the research object, in terms of the suction negative pressure and coal seam buried depth. COMSOL Multiphysics was used to model the orthogonal test results, and a multielement statistical analysis of four factors and their relationships with the spontaneous combustion of coal around the borehole and a single-factor analysis in line with the site conditions were performed on the modeling results through multiple regression. The results showed a nonlinear regression relationship between the sealing hole length, sealing hole depth, negative pressure, and coal seam depth and the spontaneous combustion of the coal around the gas drainage borehole; the prediction regression model is significant. Taking the field gas drainage in the No. 10 Coal Mine of Pingdingshan as an example, the relationship between the time of spontaneous combustion of gas drainage and the drainage pressure follows a power of two. When the drainage negative pressure is less than 45 kPa, the coal around the borehole is more likely to undergo spontaneous combustion with increasing pressure, and the sealing hole length has a positive linear correlation with the time of spontaneous combustion of the coal around the borehole. When the sealing hole length is 23 m, the time of spontaneous combustion of the coal around the gas drainage hole is >500 days, and the coal around the borehole does not easily undergo spontaneous combustion. When the sealing depth is 15 m, the time of spontaneous combustion of the coal around the gas drainage hole is 76 days, which is most likely to cause spontaneous combustion.

scholarly journals A Study of the Laws of Abnormal Gas Emissions and the Stability Controls for Coal Mine Walls in Deeply Buried High-Gas Coal Seams

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Anying Yuan ◽  
Hao Hu ◽  
Qiupeng Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Gas Diffusion ◽  
Hard Coal ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Soft Coal ◽  
Pressure Water ◽  
Gas Coal

At the present time, it is considered to be of major significance to study the gas emission law and stability controls of coal bodies in deeply buried high-gas coal seams. For this reason, in view of the specific problems of gas emissions caused by unstable rib spalling in coal mine walls, comprehensive research methods were adopted in this study, in order to conduct an in-depth examination of micropore structure parameters, gas desorption, diffusion laws, and coal stability levels. The results showed that the development degree of the pores above the micropores, as well as the small pores in soft coal seams, was better than those observed in hard coal seams. In addition, the gas outburst phenomenon was found to have more easily formed in the soft coal seams. The coal body of the No. 6 coal seam in the Xieqiao Coal Mine not only provided the conditions for gas adsorption but also provided dominant channels for gas diffusion and migration. The abnormal gas emissions of the No. 6 coal seam were jointly caused by the relatively developed pores above the small holes in the coal body, rib spalling of coal mine walls, and so on. The research results also revealed the evolution law of mechanical characteristics of the No. 6 coal seam under different water content conditions. It was found that the strength levels of the No. 6 coal seam first increased and then decreased with the increase in water content, and the water content level at the maximum strength of the coal seam was determined to be 7.09%. This study put forward a method which combined the water injection technology of long-term static pressure water injections in deep coal mining holes and real-time dynamic pressure water injections in shallower holes. Field experiments were successfully carried out.

Mining Gassy Coal Seams with a Three-Entry Panel Layout

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 613-617
Author(s):  
Jun Hua Xue ◽  
Sheng Xue
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Methane Concentration ◽  
Ventilation System ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Distribution Characteristics ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Underground Coal Mines

To address the issue of high gas emissions in mining gassy coal seams in underground coal mines, the concept of a three-entry panel layout with a retained goaf-edge gateroad and a “Y” type ventilation system is introduced in this paper. With the layout and ventilation system, distribution characteristics of methane concentration in the panel goaf is analyzed, technologies of gas drainage with boreholes drilled from the retained goaf-edge gateroad and into stress-relieved overlying and underlying seams are described, and an application case of such layout in a coal mine is also presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Reasonable Scope of Kilometer Drilling in Lower Layer of Extrathick Coal Seam: A Case Study of Tingnan Coal Mine, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Delong Zou ◽  
Xiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Lower Layer ◽  
Maximum Depth ◽  
Support Pressure ◽  
Directional Drilling ◽  
Pressure Relief ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Working Face ◽  
Fracture Development

When stratified mining is adopted in high-gas and extrathick coal seam, a large amount of pressure-relief gas of the lower layer flows into the upper layer goaf along the cracks in the layer, resulting in upper layer working face to frequently exceed the gas limit. And ordinary drilling can no longer meet the requirements of the pressure-relief gas drainage of the lower layer. The 205 working face of Tingnan Coal Mine is taken as the test background in this paper, and based on the “pressure-relief and flow-increase” effect of the lower layer under the action of mining stress during the upper layer mining, the gas drainage of kilometer directional drilling in lower layer is studied. According to the distribution characteristics of support pressure before and after the working face, the pressure-relief principle, fracture development characteristics, and gas migration law of the lower layered coal body are analyzed in the process of advancing the upper layered working face in the extrathick coal seam with high gas. The maximum depth of goaf damage is calculated theoretically, and the Flac3D numerical simulation of the failure deformation of the 205 working face floor is carried out. It is found that the maximum depth of plastic failure of the lower layer is about 13 m. According to the plastic deformation of the lower layer under different vertical depths and the movement of coal and rock mass, it is determined that the reasonable range of kilometer directional drilling in the lower layer is 6–9 m below the floor vertical depth. From 15 m to 45 m in the two parallel grooves, there is no fracture failure with a sharp increase or decrease in the displacement in the local range. Meanwhile, in this part, the roof falling behind is not easy to compaction, and the displacement of the floor is large, which does not cause plastic damage. The degree of pressure relief is more sufficient, and the permeability of the lower layer is good. Therefore, drilling should be arranged as much as possible along the working face in this tendency range. The determination of reasonable arrangement range of kilometer directional drilling in extrathick coal seam provides reference index and theoretical guidance for industrial test of working face and also provides new ideas for gas control of stratified mining face in high-gas and extrathick coal seam.

scholarly journals In-situ coal seam and overburden permeability characterization combining downhole flow meter and temperature logs.

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Julia Busse ◽  
Alexander Scheuermann ◽  
Detlef Bringemeier ◽  
Alex Hossack ◽  
Ling Li
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Flow Meter ◽  
Geophysical Logging ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Hydraulic Conditions ◽  
Mine Development

Abstract The planning and design of any coal mine development requires among others a thorough investigation of the geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological subsurface conditions. As part of a coal mine exploration program we conducted heat pulse vertical flow meter testing. The flow data were combined with absolute and differential temperature logging data to gain information about the hydraulic characteristics of two different coal seams and their over- and interburden. For the strata that were localised based on geophysical logging data including density, gamma ray and resistivity hydraulic properties were quantified. We demonstrate that the temperature log response complements the flow meter log response. A coupling of both methods is therefore recommended to get an insight into the hydraulic conditions in a coal seam and its overburden.

scholarly journals Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study on Microstructure and Permeability of Coals of Different Ranks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jiajia Liu ◽  
Jianmin Hu ◽  
Gaini Jia ◽  
Jianliang Gao ◽  
Dan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Gas Permeability ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Pore Characteristics ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic

The microscopic pore development of most coal seams in China leads to different permeability of coal seams and different gas drainage efficiency. Representative three coal rank coal samples were selected for saturation-centrifugation observation. The microscopic pore characteristics of coal samples were measured by nuclear magnetic resonance and liquid nitrogen adsorption methods. The experimental results showed that the coal samples were subjected to saturation-centrifugation and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tests. It was found that the pores of the low-rank coal (XJ-1, XJ-2) were developed at various stages, and the connectivity between the pores was good and the permeability was also good. The adsorption pores of the intermediate coal (HB-1, HB-2) and high-rank coal (ZM-1, ZM-2) were relatively developed, and the connectivity between the pores was slightly poor. The parallel coal seam samples of coals of different ranks were better than the vertical bedding. The adsorption of liquid nitrogen showed that the low-order coal had more open pores and good gas permeability; the high-order coal had more openings at one end, more ink bottles, and narrow holes, and the gas permeability was not good. Studying the micropore structure and permeability of coals of different ranks has guiding significance for mastering the law of coal seam gas storage and transportation, extracting drilling arrangements, and increasing gas drainage and reducing greenhouse effect.

scholarly journals Experimental and measured research on three-dimensional deformation law of gas drainage borehole in coal seam

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-403
Author(s):  
Hongbao Zhao ◽  
Jinyu Li ◽  
Yihong Liu ◽  
Yikuo Wang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Seam ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Gas Drainage ◽  
Deformation Law ◽  
Drainage Borehole
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