Emergency evacuation system for mines

Abstract

There are many potential hazards in the underground mining these include fire, explosion, inundation, roof collapse, toxic gases, chemical pollution, etc. Over past centuries, in US alone, more than 100 000 miners lost their life in different accidents. The primary safety methods used in underground mines concentrate on the monitoring of the hazardous gases, fire detection and ventilation. Using advanced instruments and monitoring techniques have significantly reduced the accidents in the modern mines. However despite the advancement of these monitoring facilities, accidents still occur in underground mining annually in the world, and many miners were killed because they were trapped and unable to escape due to blocked of exit access. Described a new development for the emergency evacuation system in underground mines and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the system. It is expected that the new system will greatly improve the emergency exit methods and save more lives in the future.

Field Observation Research on 3207 Large Mining Height Faces Rib Spalling in Huoerxinhe Coalmine

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Numerical Simulation of Coal Mining Excavation Based on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis

“…Coal is the main energy resource in China. As 70% of the energy is coal in China [1], the coal drives the development of industry as well as the economics in China. An efficiency method which can describe the movement, displacement and stress field of rock stratum will benefit the coal mining industry greatly.…”