Coal and Coalbed Methane Co-Extraction Technology Based on the Ground Movement in the Yangquan Coalfield, China

Guozhong Hu, Jialin Xu, Fuxi Zhang, Changchun Zhao, Wei Qin and Yiran Zhu
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Guozhong Hu: School of Mines, Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Resource Mining, Ministry of Education of China, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China
Jialin Xu: School of Mines, Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Resource Mining, Ministry of Education of China, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China
Fuxi Zhang: Post-Doctoral Research Station, Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) CO., LTD, Yangquan 045000, Shanxi, China
Changchun Zhao: Post-Doctoral Research Station, Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) CO., LTD, Yangquan 045000, Shanxi, China
Wei Qin: State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China
Yiran Zhu: School of Mines, Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Resource Mining, Ministry of Education of China, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China

Energies, 2015, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: The Yangquan coalfield is one of the typical highly gassy mining areas in China. However, its coal seams are of lower permeability, which are not conductive to coalbed methane (CBM) drainage. In this study, based on the theory of the ground movement, we analyzed the principle of coal and CBM coextraction in the Yangquan coalfield, and established the technology system of coal and CBM coextraction which was further implemented in the coal and CBM coextraction in the Yangquan coalfield. The coal and CBM coextraction technologies based on the “pressure-relief and permeability-increase” effect caused by the mining overburden movement can optimally ensure the safe and efficient mining and improve the gas drainage rate. A series of developed coal and CBM coextraction technologies for the Yangquan coalfield were mainly characterized by the high-level gas drainage roadway. This reached a maximum gas drainage amount of 270,000 m 3 /day for single drainage roadway and a pressure-relief gas drainage rate of >90%. Those technologies significantly improved the gas drainage effect safely and efficiently achieving the coal and CBM coextraction.

Keywords: ground movement; Yangquan coalfield; coal and coalbed methane coextraction; gas drainage; key strata movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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