Research on Safety Subregion Partition Method and Characterization for Coal Mine Ventilation System

Abstract

The research analyzes and improves upon the concept of ventilation safety subregions in coal mines and proposes a partition method based on the breadth-first search algorithm for assessing the quality of the ventilation. This involves the analysis of the function of ventilation subregions and of ventilation gas-monitoring data. Then, using the so-called ventilation sensitivity matrix as the analysis method, we confirm the consistency of considering safety subregions, which are associated with air consumption places as the core concept and the objective positioning of the safety subregions within the ventilation analysis. This allows us to establish the validity and practicability of employing regional characteristic information of mine ventilation and gas concentrations in the mine’s air. Finally, based on the characteristics of the ventilation subregions, ventilation air quantity network maps with safety subregions are proposed and their application is demonstrated. The advantages and characteristics of using these maps to replace ventilation network maps for ventilation analysis are demonstrated.