Prevention and Control of Mine Fire

Dear Colleagues,

Mine fires are the main disasters that occur in mines, including internal fires (coal spontaneous combustion) and external fires. Mine fires can not only burn coal resources and cause significant economic losses, but can also lead to gas combustion, dust explosion and other accidents, leading to serious casualties. After decades of research, significant progress has been made in determining coal spontaneous combustion characteristics, fire zone detection, fire prevention and extinguishing technology and materials, and standardization system construction. Major coal-producing countries such as China, the United States, and Australia attach great importance to the research and application of emergency rescue technology and prevention and control equipment for mining disasters. They have made significant progress in emergency communication, personnel positioning, remote detection of disaster areas, and construction of escape routes, providing guidance for accident emergency and auxiliary decision making, airflow regulation, and post-disaster escape.

This Special Issue, “Prevention and Control of Mine Fire”, aims to comprehensively reflect the research progress and latest achievements in the field of coal spontaneous combustion in mines, cover recent developments in occurrence mechanisms, new techniques and equipment, safety management and risk assessment, emergency rescue theories and technologies for the control of mine fires. Original research articles and reviews are welcome, and the submitted papers should clearly show novel contributions and innovative applications of how science can support any of the following fire-related topics (amongst others):

• Mechanism and characteristics of coal spontaneous combustion process;
• New technology for monitoring and early warning of coal spontaneous combustion ;
• Application of new materials for fire prevention;
• Application of new techniques and equipments for the control of mine fires;
• Numerical simulation of fire spread under coupling multi-physical fields;
• Real path and coupling effects;
• Risk control with an accident chain;
• Risk assessment;
• Mine ventilation technology;
• Assessment of emergency response capability.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Botao Qin
Dr. Dong Ma
Dr. Quanlin Shi
Dr. Zhenlu Shao
Dr. Lele Feng
Guest Editors

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