Numerical study on effects of air leakages from abandoned galleries on hill-side coal fires |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Resources and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, PR China;2. Earth Observation Center, EOC, German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Wessling, Germany;3. Wuda Mine, Haibowan District, 016000 Inner Mongolia, PR China;4. Beijing ESKY Technology Ltd., Beijing, PR China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, our main aims are to present a numerical model for hill-side coal fires and to analyze influences of air leakages from abandoned galleries on hill-side coal fires. A two-dimensional unsteady-state model for hill-side coal fires is developed. The coupling between chemical reactions in the coal seam and oxygen transport through adjacent rocks is involved. Heterogeneous permeability of different porous zones induced by rock mechanical failure is considered. Based on the single-particle reaction–diffusion model, a novel approach is proposed to estimate oxygen consumption rate controlled by oxygen transport at high temperature.Simulation results show that hill-side coal fires are remarkably intensified and accelerated by air leakage from the abandoned gallery: (1) the hottest spot is approximately 500 K higher than that for the case of no air leakage from the abandoned gallery; (2) temperature rise is much speedier than that in the case of no air leakage; (3) coal in the combustion zone starts to spontaneously combust approximately 50 days earlier compared to the sealed abandoned gallery; (4) high temperature zones including drying zone, baked zone and melting zone are larger than those in the condition of no air leakage from the abandoned gallery. |
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Keywords: | Air leakage Ventilation The single-particle reaction–diffusion model Oxygen consumption rate Coal fire propagation COMSOL simulations |
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