Evaluation of the Gas Drainage Effect in Deep Loose Coal Seams Based on the Cloud Model

Dandan Qiu, Yanling Wu () and Li Li
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Dandan Qiu: School of Resource and Safety Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China
Yanling Wu: School of Resource and Safety Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China
Li Li: School of Resource and Safety Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-13

Abstract: The gas drainage effect is one of the important elements in the study of gas drainage in coal mines. It is critical to establish an effective evaluation model of the gas drainage effect for coal mines because the result of gas drainage is directly related to the safety of the coal mines. Through the research related to the safety evaluation in the existing coal mining process, we discovered that there are few studies on the evaluation of the impact of deep and soft gas drainage, and the evaluation methods are not sufficiently effective to resolve the complex problems arising in the process of gas drainage. This paper took “three soft” coal seams in the Lugou Coal Mine as the research object and constructed the evaluation index system on the basis of thoroughly analyzing the factors of coal seam drainage. We then employed a combination weighting method to attain the optimal weight by organically integrating the Analysis Hierarchical Process subjective weighting method and the Criteria Importance Through Interaction Correlation objective weighting method and utilized the cloud model to compute the numerical characteristic value of the evaluation index. In the end, this method obtained an evaluation result of the gas drainage effect evaluation. The evaluation result grade is good. Additional analysis was performed according to the evaluation factors, and corresponding improvement measures were proposed. This is of great importance in promoting safe production and improving the efficiency of gas drainage.

Keywords: gas drainage; deep loose coal; cloud mode; safety evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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