To study and prevent
bed separation water inrush accidents in coal
mines, it is necessary to evaluate the risk according to the limited
geological data correctly. In this work, based on hydrogeological
and mining conditions, we established a risk evaluation model and
selected seven important factors, including the aquifer thickness,
aquifer water abundance, hydraulic pressure of the aquifer, effective
aquifuge thickness, mining failure ratio, mining height of the working
face, and advancing distance as evaluation indexes. The intuitionistic
fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (IFAHP) and entropy weight method
(EWM) were used to analyze the weights of the original data, and the
minimum information entropy principle was used to further integrate
the abovementioned calculation results. With the weight results, set
pair analysis–variable fuzzy set (SPA-VFS) theory was applied
to determine the risk grade of each working face, which provided scientific
guidance for the safe mining of coal mines. For the working face where
water inrush may occur, the risk of bed separation water inrush can
be reduced by optimizing the parameters or changing the mining conditions
through the model analysis.