Coal seam spontaneous combustion fire is not only one
of the main
forms of the five major mine disasters, but also the main cause of
secondary disasters such as mine gas and coal dust explosions. In
recent years, with the advancement of mechanization, automation, and
intelligent mine construction, spontaneous coal fires in mines have
presented a series of new characteristics, and the prevention and
control of spontaneous coal fires are also facing new challenges.
On the basis of literature research, this paper summarizes and discusses
the basic theory of coal spontaneous combustion, monitoring and early
warning methods, and prevention and control technology, summarizes
the development process of coal spontaneous combustion theory, reviews
the research progress of coal spontaneous combustion monitoring and
early warning methods and prevention and control technologies, and
discusses the future development direction. In terms of the basic
theory of spontaneous combustion of coal, from the initial hypothesis
of spontaneous combustion of multielement coal to the unified understanding
of coal-oxygen composite theory, a complete set of theoretical systems
have been established, and a lot of macro and micro studies have been
carried out and analyzed from multiple perspectives. In terms of coal
spontaneous combustion monitoring and early warning, from the initial
single indicator gas early warning to the construction of gas index
system, the hierarchical early warning system is studied, and gradually
tends to be perfect. With the development of automation and intelligence
technology, the monitoring of coal spontaneous combustion disasters
has also formed a new monitoring technology with beam tube monitoring
as the traditional method, distributed optical fiber, wireless AD
hoc network temperature measurement, and a coal spontaneous combustion
multiparameter wireless monitoring system. In terms of fire prevention
and control, the traditional “prevention” and “treatment”
have changed to the “prevention–control–extinction”
technical system based on hierarchical early warning, and the focus
has gradually shifted to “prevention”, and a large number
of antifire materials have been developed, including blocking materials
and fire-fighting materials. However, the precise inhibition and control
of coal spontaneous combustion disasters, the evolution model of coal
spontaneous combustion under the conditions of multifactor coupling
in the field, the reliability and stability of intelligent monitoring
system, the noncontact detection method of fire source, and the collaborative
adaptation of multiple prevention and control techniques are not yet
clear. In the future development, the mechanism of spontaneous coal
combustion and its evolution process and other basic theories should
be deeply studied. On the basis of the mechanism optimization early
warning method of spontaneous coal combustion process, flame retardant
and fire prevention materials should be targeted and developed. On
the basis of the spatiotemporal evolution of spontane...