The Development of the Toxic and Flammable Gases Concentration Monitoring System for Coalmines

Abstract

Coal mining is still an important part of the global energy complex. Despite the active development of technologies and modern equipment, coal mining remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The main danger is associated with a large number of the hard-predictable factors, such as the opening of a toxic and flammable gas blister, the collapse of a mine due to a violation of the mines’ structural integrity, etc. There are software and hardware systems capable of monitoring the necessary parameters, but the problem lies in the complexity and costliness of the implementation and maintenance, so even for the largest enterprises, the widespread implementation of such systems is unprofitable. Previously conducted studies have established that most of the developed coal mining monitoring systems are very expensive to implement and labor-consuming to use and support. This article proposes to consider the developed prototype of a system for toxic and flammable gases concentration real-time monitoring, capable of reading the information with sufficient speed and transferring it to a system which triggers the response mechanism in cases where the specified concentration limits would be exceeded.