94 results about "Longwall mining" patented technology

The invention relates to a coal mining method for a high-dipping low coal seam by long-wall mining. The method comprises the following steps of: supporting a roof by a self-advancing air bag support; arranging a working surface in a mode of advancing to the dip; mining coal by drilling and blasting or using an off-pan shearer; transporting the coal in a mode of gravity haulage; filling a goaf with gangue or sand; and filling a lower end with gangue bags, precast concrete blocks or solidified macromolecular foaming slurry. The coal mining method has the advantages of realizing mechanical coal mining for the high-dipping low coal seam, improving the yield per unit and efficiency of the working surface, effectively protecting the exploited ground, improving the recovery rate of mines, and guaranteeing the coal seam mining safety.

The invention discloses a novel lane forming method for mining a long wall, namely a deep stope automatic lane forming physical simulation test method which changes the traditional mode of mining the long wall through a single face and double lanes. An oriented pre-cracking top-cutting lane-reserving technique is adopted; and a return mining lane of a gate road under a primary work face is reserved and serves as one of return mining lanes of the next new work face so as to mine through a single face and a single lane. The method has the advantages of removing concentrated stress above the coal on adjacent working faces, reducing the mining ratio, improving the production efficiency and reducing the resource waste, and belongs to a novel, safe, efficient, economic and scientific mining technique. At the same time, the invention designs a deep stope automatic lane forming physical simulation test device based on the principle so as to prove the reliability of the method and ensure the authenticity and the availability of the test process.

A conveyor pan for use with a shearer with a skid-type shoe in a longwall mining operation, the conveyor pan including a side member having a surface adapted to be engaged by the shearer skid-type shoe, the surface being formed by a piece of the side member that extends horizontally for the length of the side member. The piece has a first end and a second end, each piece end having a top, a rear, a front and an edge. The first end edge and the second end edge are each formed by each edge being between 45 degrees removed from a vertical plane extending at 90 degrees to the horizontal plane formed by the side member surface.

The invention relates to a method and to a device for monitoring the track of a cutting extraction machine (1), which is used in particular in coal mining and can be displaced during longwall mining in a longwall face equipped with face conveyors (9) and longwall advancing (12, 13) along the face (10). The underlying object of the invention is to create a method and a device which make it possible, despite extremely poor visibility conditions, for example in the track of the extraction machine, to detect present obstacles in the form of lowered canopies or drooping folding canopies, sliding canopies or other additions to the lining or overloads of the conveyor in order to take measures for avoiding interruptions in the operation in a timely manner. In order to achieve this object, according to the invention the track of the extraction machine (1) is scanned using a radar measuring device (14) associated with the extraction machine (1) and upon detection of an obstacle an alarm is triggered and/or an invention in the controller of the extraction machine (1) takes place.

The invention relates to a method for controlling a cutting extraction machine that can be displaced along a coal face in longwall mining, wherein the radiated heat of the working face (4) newly exposed by the extraction machine is observed by means of an infrared camera (10), and control data for the subsequent extraction travel is generated using said observation. In order to make said method error-free and better suited for practical application, the invention proposes that the observation of the radiated heat is done perpendicular to the working face (4) at a minimum distance from the cutting tools of the extraction machine, and that a guiding layer package (X) having a characteristic sequence of boundaries between layers of differing heat conductivity is determined, and that the course of said guide layer package (X) relative to the boundaries of the face is determined at the end of each extraction travel using the heat images, and that the control data for the next extraction travel of the extraction machine is generated using said course of the guide layer package.

A method for automatically producing a defined face opening in a longwall mining operation in underground coal mining, using a face conveyor, at least one plow, as an extraction machine, guided on the face conveyor, and respective hydraulic shield support frames having, as main components, a floor skid arrangement, a gob shield, a top canopy and support connection rods. Inclination sensors are disposed on at least three of the floor skid arrangements, the gob shield, the support connection rods and a gob-side region of the top canopy. From the sensors, an inclination relative to a horizontal is ascertained. From the inclination data, by comparison with base data defining a geometrical orientation of the components and movement thereof during a stepping process, a respective shield height of the shield support frames perpendicular to a bed thereof is calculated and is compared with a machine-dependent fixed cutting height of the plow to establish if deviations exist. By means of a boom controller disposed between the shield support frame and the face conveyor, a height control of the plow is initiated to correct established deviations and is maintained, in the sense of a location-synchronized evaluation, until the shield support frame, which trails the plow with a time delay, has reached the position at which the plow was located at the point in time when the height control of the plow was initiated.

A method for maintaining, in a controlled manner, a top canopy/coal-face distance expedient for rock mechanics, in longwall mining operations in underground coal mining, using a face conveyor, at least one extraction machine, and a hydraulic shield support frame. Inclination sensors are disposed on at least three of the four main components of the shield support frame, including floor skid, gob shield, support connection rods and gob-side area of the top canopy. An inclination of the top canopy and floor skid are ascertained via the sensors. From the ascertained inclination data, in a computer, the effects on a top canopy/coal face distance are determined when changes in an angle of inclination of the top canopy occur. An automatic adjustment of decisive cycle parameters of the shield support frame are carried out, wherein the work cycle comprises retraction, advancement and setting processes.

A method for extracting mineral deposits in a mineral reserve, a portion being accessible from a sloping surface and the remaining portion being inaccessible, is disclosed. The sloping surface is mined to create a bench and highwall for providing access to the mineral reserve around the accessible portion. Then, a surface is formed in the highwall to create an insertion highwall between an endwall extending from the insertion highwall and the inaccessible portion of the mineral reserve. A starter entry is created for cutting into the mineral reserve across the entire length of the insertion highwall from the endwall to the inaccessible portion of the mineral reserve. Roof supports are advanced into the starter entry with spoil added to form a starter passage from the endwall to the inaccessible portion of the mineral reserve. Shortwall or longwall mining techniques are then used to mine the mineral reserve along the starter passage. Canopies are positioned at both ends of the starter passage to seal the passage and provide ventilation of the active mining area by the introduction of air along the face of the mineral seam. A single-gate passage is formed extending from the insertion highwall adjacent the inaccessible portion of the mineral reserve to allow the continuous miner to form another opposing endwall. Mining then continues in the starter passage along the insertion highwall from the single-gate passage to the opposing endwall, thereby forming a production passage into which the roof supports are farther advanced with gob forming behind.

A pin-and-collet assembly, a longwall shearer comprising a ranging arm attached to a lifting bracket with such assembly, a method for the secure fastening of one piece to another, such as securely fastening the ranging arm to the lifting bracket of a longwall shearer using such assembly as a bushing, and a method for longwall mining of ore, such as trona, using such longwall shearer. This assembly is easy to install, does not have to be tightened during longwall operation of an ore panel, and is also demountable when it is time to stop the longwall mining operation and time to remove/replace the ranging arm for maintenance and/or when the end of the ore panel is reached.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional similarity test device and test method for mining of an inclined coal seam with an adjustable confined aquifer inclination angle, and relates to the field of confined water inclined coal seam mining similarity tests. The three-dimensional similarity test device comprises a test support, an internal frame, a model storage cavity, a loading plate, a horizontal loading system, a vertical loading system, a water pressure loading system, an inclination angle adjusting system, a signal acquisition and processing system, a three-dimensional test model and acoal seam mining simulation system. The test device realizes the adjustability of the inclination angle of the confined aquifer, the gradient distribution of the water pressure load of the aquifer and the authenticity of the stress state of the inclined coal seam in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and realizes the segmental and step-by-step excavation simulation of the coal seam in the closed space of the three-dimensional similar model; and the test device can truly invert generation, expansion and penetration of rock stratum fractures of the mining floor of the inclinedcoal seam on the confined water to finally form a dynamic evolution process of a water guide channel, and can better carry out prediction research on water inrush of the mining floor of the inclinedcoal seam with different inclination angles on the confined water in the strike of long-wall mining.

The invention discloses a high-speed cutting longwall-mining method for low coal seams and medium-thickness coal seams. The cutting resistance is reduced by reducing a web, so that a normal coal cutting speed reaches 15-40 m/min; by using a low-web bidirectional high-speed coal cutting process for left triangular coals, after triangular coals are completely cut, returning to cut the other half of triangular coals is not required, but continuing to carry out ascending (descending) coal cutting is performed; and reciprocating mining is performed in such a way. By adopting the spaced quick moving of brackets, every two circulating brackets move at a synchronized interval. Through the timing optimization of production takts, by using a space-time coordinated continuous operating method, each workday is uniformly divided into six (or eight) time intervals, a maintenance operation and a shutdown-required roadway operation are arranged in the third time interval, and coal cutting and non-shutdown-required roadway operations are arranged in the rest of time intervals. According to the invention, the low-web bidirectional high-speed coal cutting process for left triangular coals, moving brackets in a grouped, spaced and staggered mode, and the space-time coordinated continuous operating method are adopted, so that the shortcomings of slow advance speed and low mining efficiency of low coal seams and medium-thickness coal seams are made up, thereby providing a feasible mining method for the high-speed cutting of low coal seams and medium-thickness coal seams.

A system for determining structural changes in a longwall mine, including a modulator wheel operatively coupled to a longwall mining machine, and a controller in communication with the modulator wheel; wherein the controller determines a movement of the longwall mining machine according to a signal received from the modulator wheel.

Systems and methods are described for monitoring a condition of a mine roof using a longwall mining system. A plurality of powered roof supports are controlled to apply an adjustable support pressureon a mine roof. A condition of the mine roof is monitored based on the adjustable support pressure applied to the roof by a respective actuator of each powered roof support. In some implementations, the condition of the mine roof is monitored by generating and analyzing a graphical pressure map based on the adjustable support pressure applied by each powered roof support and a relative position ofa shearer moving across the mine face. In some implementations, roof collapse events are detected based on temporally similar changes in the adjustable support pressure applied by multiple adjacent powered roof supports as indicated by the graphical pressure map.

A cable handling system for a longwall mining machine is disclosed. The longwall mining machine includes a shearer configured to move along a pan line to mine material along a mine face. The cable handling system includes a service line configured to carry one or more supply lines to the shearer for facilitating shearer operation. Further, a plurality of interconnected trays accommodates the service line. Moreover, a controller is configured to determine a profile of the pan line; detect one or more parameters associated with the service line in relation to the profile of the pan line; and determine a likelihood of at least a portion of the service line dislodging from the plurality of interconnected trays based on the one or more parameters exceeding a predefined threshold.

This invention discloses a longwall mining machine and a linepan section. The linepan section may include a face-side rail, a gob-side rail opposite the face-side rail, and a conveyor pan between the face-side rail and the gob-side rail. The face-side rail may have a generally horizontal top surface at a top surface height and with a top surface width, an angled loading surface extending toward the mining face and the ground surface and arranged at an oblique angle relative to the top surface, the loading surface being at a loading height and with a loading surface width, the loading surface width being at least about 25 percent of the total width, and a material cavity defined in the face surface below the loading surface and recessed toward a gob-side.

A method for controlling a longwall mining operation, including a face conveyor, at least one extraction machine, and a hydraulic shield support, in underground coal mining. Using inclination sensors disposed on at least three of the four main components of each shield support frame, such as floor skid, gob shield, support connection rods, and gob-side region of the top canopy, the inclination of the shield components relative to horizontal is ascertained in the direction of step. In a computer, the ascertained inclination data is compared with base data stored in the computer that defines the geometrical orientation of the components and their movement during stepping. From the comparison, a respective height of the shield support frame, at the forward end of the top canopy, is calculated as a measure for the face opening.