Mine Hazards Identification, Prevention and Control

Dear Colleagues,

In the process of human social development, the consumption of fossil energy, especially coal, has promoted economic prosperity, cultural exchanges and social progress. With shallow coal resources exhausted, the coal mining engineering has entered into deep area.  Coal geology environment of deep area is obviously different from that of shallow. With mining depth increasing, all the stress of buried rock stratum and surrounding rock, and gas pressure of coal seam increase gradually. In addition, the geological structures such as complex fault, big fold and thick-hard roof will increase risk of coal mining. Once the dynamic disaster occurs, it will induce miner casualties and property losses. So It is urgent to identify mine hazards such as coal and gas outbursts, rock bursts, gas explosions and coal fires, and research the formation mechanism, occurrence and development process of them. What’s more important, the prevention and control methods should be proposed to reduce mine disasters. Only in this way can we promote the safe, green and efficient development of coal mining. This Topical Collection, titled “Mine Hazards Identification, Prevention and Control”, aims to provide an opportunity to researchers around the globe to conduct a broader scientific and technological discussion on such advances to improve the prevention and control level of the disasters encountered during underground coal mining. The discussion topics include, but are not limited to, the basic experiments, modeling, numerical simulation, and field tests of aforementioned disasters. Original research and review articles are welcome.

Dr. Xiangguo Kong
Dr. Dexing Li
Dr. Xiaoran Wang
Collection Editors

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