Preliminary Exploration of the Technology of Coal Reshaping and Replacement Mining of Abandoned Coal in Goafs

Abstract

Recycling of coal resources left behind in goafs and the treatment and utilization of solid waste from mines are topical issues faced by the global coal mining industry at present. With the annual reduction of recoverable reserves of coal resources and the dependence on coal resources that are difficult to replace, the problems have become increasingly prominent, seriously limiting the development of coal resources and the implementation of environmental protection work. The mutual influence between the strength of filling materials and the size of loose coal in the CRRM process through numerical simulation experiments, laboratory rock mechanics experiments, and on-site large-scale similar simulation material experiments is explored. It is ultimately believed that selecting a filling material with a 20 cm particle size of loose coal and a 90% proportion of loose coal for 7 days can meet the requirements of the CRRM process, and this conclusion has been verified through on-site engineering scale experiments. The scientific problems faced by various links in the process of filling and replacing abandoned coal in goafs were analyzed, and improvement methods were further proposed; the technical system of filling and replacing abandoned coal was improved, and new directions for the efficient and safe recovery of abandoned coal resources worldwide in the future were developed.