Coal pillars in underground coal mines play a key role to provide support to the superincumbent strata. Traditionally, coal pillars are designed using conventional approaches, based on the principle that the strength of the pillar must be greater than the load imposed on it. This is the only criterion for pillar design.
Coal pillar design procedures - Mine Health and Safety . 2 Executive Summary Examination of collapsed pillar cases outside of the empirical limits of Salamon and Munro's in situ database has highlighted the need for additional parameters to be considered in the design of coal pillars. These include the influence of discontinuities, surrounding strata characteristics ...
The paper points out that bord-and-pillar mining is the most important method of coal extraction in South Af~ican underground coal mines, and advocates that pillar design procedures should be refined to make more rational allowance for the differences in strength properties between various coal seams and roof and floor strata. However, any deviations from well-established design procedures ...
Coal pillars of substantially large dimensions are left out in coal mines to support the huge burden of the overlying strata. In India, more than 3000 million ton of coal reserve is locked up in ...
Design challenges are becoming increasingly significant in Australian underground coal mines, where some mines are operating at the 500m depth threshold and progressively getting deeper. At these depths there is little or no Australian underground coal precedence and pillar design will be critical to safety and production. Pillar performance and design approaches are well documented at ...
16.01.2018 · The NIOSH Mining Program has developed guidelines and criteria for the design of longwall gateroad pillars and coal and limestone pillars used in retreat mining. These guidelines are to a large extent empirically derived and based on case histories of pillar performance from a number of mines. The case histories were incorporated into extensive databases that were then used to develop .
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In coal mining: Development of continuous mining .loading, developed in association with room-and-pillar mining. The oldest of the basic underground methods, room-and-pillar mining grew naturally out of the need to recover more coal as mining operations became deeper and more expensive.
3-4-2019 · Reasonable coal pillar design and remote control mining technology for highwall residual coal resources. Wang F(1), Zhang C(2). Author information: (1)Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Resource Mining (CUMT), Ministry of Education of China, School of Mines, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, People's Republic of China.
Pillar design must take into account the chance of pillar shearing once seam dip increases above 20° as the shear strength becomes greatly reduced with increasing seam dip. Coal from the Spring Creek Mine shows a high degree of anisotropy and so pillars have been designed for specific seam dips at .
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Pillar design in coal underground mines should be carried out so as to achieve two goals. These include the provision of a high level of safety and coal recovery. Before development of personal computers, mining designers designed coal pillar by manual procedures. The manual procedures were difficult processes with different limitations. Therefore the empirical designing methods were gradually ...
Coal mine pillar design has been the subject of sustained and intensive researches in the major coal producing countries of the world. Pillar design and stability are two of the most complicated problems in mining related to rock mechanics and ground control subjects.
The strength of pillars are highly dependent on the geological conditions of the mine and there is no universal pillar design method. The following pictures show the potential failure modes that need to be considered for pillar design which are spalling (hourglassing), shear fracturing (geology and stress), bulking/bulging (geology) and foundation failure [7] .:
1. Introduction. The slope angle, mining boundary, changes of the coal seam thickness, etc. are the main reasons that many coal resources remain under the end-walls in open-pit coal mines [1–3].Because of the undeveloped mining technology and low economic benefits, those resources were discarded or exploited using the room and pillar method with low recovery ratios.
In coal mining—particularly underground coal mining—there are numerous conditions that can threaten the health and safety of the miners. For this reason, coal mining worldwide is heavily regulated through health and safety laws. Through the development of new equipment for personnel protection, new approaches to mine design, more effective emergency preparedness plans and procedures, and ...
EMPIRICAL METHODS FOR COAL PILLAR DESIGN By Christopher Mark, Ph.D.1 ABSTRACT Empirical methods involve the scientific interpretation of real-world experience. Many problems in ground control lend themselves to an empirical approach because the mines provide us with plenty of experience with full-scale rock structures. During the past 10 years, powerful design techniques have .
@article{osti_6602077, title = {Pillar design in underground oil shale mines}, author = {Hardy, M.P. and Agapito, J.F.T.}, abstractNote = {The Colony pilot mine provided valuable pillar strengths that should form the basis of any subsequent mine designs. As no commercial oil shale mine has yet been developed, neither a comprehensive empirical pillar strength formula can be developed, nor a ...
COAL PILLAR STRENGTH AND PRACTICAL COAL PILLAR DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS By Daniel W. H. Su, Ph.D.,1 and Gregory J. Hasenfus2 ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates that finite-element modeling can be used to predict in situ coal pillar strength, especially under nonideal conditions where interface friction and roof and floor deformation are the primary
The design of mine pillars involves the determination of proper sizes of pillars compatible with the expected load and the in situ strength of the coal strata. Thus, in de ciding the most suitable dimensions for mine pillars, one needs to consider such factors as the pillar load (the stress on pillars), the pillar strength, and the factors of safety. There are two approaches to coal pillar ...
17-7-2013 · Principles of Room & Pillar Mining - Duration: 2:59. Global Mining 130,586 views. ... coal mine roof fall afrter pillaring - Duration: 3:19. 81971slm 45,601 views.
Auteur: carsontaylor1701.03.2012 · Pillar design, especially in room and pillar mines, is one of the most important topics in the field of coal mine ground control. Various methods have been suggested in recent years most of which like classic method and Bieniawski method neglect abutment loads and determine pillar dimensions only based on development load (estimated by tributary area theory). Abutment loads .