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Molecular Mechanism Study On The Effect Of Nonionic Surfactants With Different Degrees Of Ethoxylation On The Wettability Of Anthracite, Xuanlai Chen, Guochao Yan, You Zhou, Guang Xu, Xuyang Bai, Jiajun Li

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A serious risk to the production safety of coal mines is coal dust. The wettability of coal may be successfully changed by adding surfactants to water. However, the creation of very effective dust suppressants is constrained by the lack of knowledge about the microscopic interaction mechanism between coal dust and surfactants. In this investigation, we explained macroscopic experimental phenomena from a molecular perspective. The lauryl polyoxyethylene ethers (C12 (EO)n, n = 7,15,23) were selected. The macromolecular model of anthracite with 55 different components was constructed. Surface tension experiments and hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB) calculations showed that the ability of surface …

Molecular Mechanism Study On The Effect Of Nonionic Surfactants With Different Degrees Of Ethoxylation On The Wettability Of Anthracite, Xuanlai Chen, Guochao Yan, You Zhou, Guang Xu, Xuyang Bai, Jiajun Li

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A serious risk to the production safety of coal mines is coal dust. The wettability of coal may be successfully changed by adding surfactants to water. However, the creation of very effective dust suppressants is constrained by the lack of knowledge about the microscopic interaction mechanism between coal dust and surfactants. In this investigation, we explained macroscopic experimental phenomena from a molecular perspective. The lauryl polyoxyethylene ethers (C12 (EO)n, n = 7,15,23) were selected. The macromolecular model of anthracite with 55 different components was constructed. Surface tension experiments and hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB) calculations showed that the ability of surface …

Molecular Mechanism Study On The Effect Of Nonionic Surfactants With Different Degrees Of Ethoxylation On The Wettability Of Anthracite, Xuanlai Chen, Guochao Yan, You Zhou, Guang Xu, Xuyang Bai, Jiajun Li

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A serious risk to the production safety of coal mines is coal dust. The wettability of coal may be successfully changed by adding surfactants to water. However, the creation of very effective dust suppressants is constrained by the lack of knowledge about the microscopic interaction mechanism between coal dust and surfactants. In this investigation, we explained macroscopic experimental phenomena from a molecular perspective. The lauryl polyoxyethylene ethers (C₁₂ (EO)_n, n = 7,15,23) were selected. The macromolecular model of anthracite with 55 different components was constructed. Surface tension experiments and hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB) calculations showed that the …

Effect Of Quantitative Textural Specifications On Vickers Hardness Of Limestones, Sasan Ghorbani, Seyed Hadi Hoseinie, Ebrahim Ghasemi, Taghi Sherizadeh

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

It is well-known that the indentation hardness property is influenced by micro-fabric characteristics. The effect of textural characteristics on Vickers indentation hardness is attempted to be interpreted in this research. For this purpose, 12 fresh limestone samples from various quarries were tested to determine the Vickers hardness. Thereafter, quantitative textural parameters were identified and characterized using image processing techniques and micro-fabric analysis based on microphotographs of thin sections. Microphotographs of the thin sections were reviewed and digital boundaries of the grains were clarified and drawn. After preparation and filtering of the digitized thin sections, four basic properties of each grain, …

Analyzing The Effectiveness Of The Gurney Method For Small Scale Fragmentation Propulsion Using Exploding Bridgewire Detonators, Emily M. Johnson, Rachel L. Bauer, Catherine E. Johnson

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Explosives are common in military, mining, and construction applications where the explosive properties are understood, but mechanics of how the explosive's energy fragments and throws materials are less known. Considering the type of confining material around an explosive, creates variability in fragmentation behavior due to the individual material characteristics. The most common method for assessing fragmentation behavior is the Gurney method, which eliminates any consideration of fragmenting material properties. The Gurney method assumes that, on a large scale, the inconsistencies in material are irrelevant and only the mass of the confiner need be considered. However, it is known in many …

Evaluating Blast Wave Overpressure From Non-Spherical Charges Using Time Of Arrival From High-Speed Video, Kelly Williams, Catherine E. Johnson

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Scaled distance is used to predict blast wave overpressure surrounding the detonation of a known mass of explosive under the assumption that the charge geometry is spherical. Altering charge geometry from spherical overdrives regions of the blast wave resulting in areas of higher overpressures than predicted by scaled distance calculations. Empirical data can be used to scale the blast wave overpressure to cylindrical charges, but available overpressure data for more complex geometries is not available in published literature. In the present study the time of arrival of the blast wave was measured from high-speed video and the Rankine-Hugoniot relationship used …

Distinct Element Analysis Of Various Structural Element Responses For Coal Rib Support Simulation, A. Kirmaci, D. Guner, K. Karadeniz, Taghi Sherizadeh

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Understanding the bolt responses for the efficacy of bolt performance during coal rib support applications plays a key role in controlling the stability of underground coal mine openings. Conducting pull-out tests is imperative to gain a better understanding of these responses. Field conditions such as block volume and degree of cleating may significantly impact bolt performance. These field conditions can be efficiently implemented in numerical modeling approaches, and selecting a proper structural element type for these numerical studies is crucial. This study developed a pull-out test model and compared the performance of structural elements as support members in the coal …

Explosion Resistance Of Reinforced Concrete Refuge Alternative Wall Under Certain Abutment Loading, K. E. Karadeniz, D. Guner, Taghi Sherizadeh

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Build-in-place (BIP) refuge alternatives (RAs) are used to provide safe havens for miners unable to escape their working area after an accident like an explosion. These underground infrastructures are built over time in various locations and might expose to mining-induced stresses. The convergences related to these stress redistributions around the mine openings might change their structural integrity and, subsequently, the explosion resistivity. Studying the effect of increasing vertical load like abutment stress on such underground mine stopping for the explosion resistance is difficult because repetitive explosion experiments on these structures are perilous and challenging. This study uses two case studies …

Prediction And Optimization Of Tower Mill Grinding Power Consumption Based On Ga-Bp Neural Network, Ziyang Wang, Ying Hou, Ahmed Sobhy

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Grinding is commonly responsible for the liberation of valuable minerals from host rocks but can entail high costs in terms of energy and medium consumption, but a tower mill is a unique power-saving grinding machine over traditional mills. In a tower mill, many operating parameters affect the grinding performance, such as the amount of slurry with a known solid concentration, screw mixer speed, medium filling rate, material-ball ratio, and medium properties. Thus, 25 groups of grinding tests were conducted to establish the relationship between the grinding power consumption and operating parameters. The prediction model was established based on the backpropagation …

Analysis Of The Root Causes Of Fatal Injuries In The United States Surface Mines Between 2008 And 2021., Maria Fernanda Quintero

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Mining has long been recognized as a hazardous industry worldwide. An annual average rate of 10.3 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers was recorded in the United States between 2008 and 2021 (MSHA, 2022). This rate can be compared with the average of the industries with the highest average rates of fatal injuries—agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting; transportation and warehousing; and construction—which had average rates of 23.5, 13.1, and 9.9 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers, respectively, during the same period in the Unites States (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023).

The scope of this research is related to the fatal injuries …

Effects Of Downwash When Measuring Gas Concentration With Uav-Mounted Gas Sensors, Jacob Lane Brinkman

Doctoral Dissertations

"This research concludes that the downwash region of a rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) does not produce pressure variations substantial enough to cause significant changes in density-based gas concentration measurements. US regulations evaluate gas concentration as a function of gas density, and accurate concentration measurements are critical for protecting health and safety, which means evaluation of actual downwash effects on measured gas concentration is essential.

During experimentation, the UAV was fixed to a stand in a sealed chamber filled with NOx (NO and NO₂) of constant concentration. The UAV rotors ran at hovering speeds, and gas concentrations were …

Recent Trends In Mineral Processing Based On Density And Particle Size–A Review, Ahmed Sobhy

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Most mineral beneficiation development in the world focus on size and density-based separation technologies. In recent years, ore size-based and density-based separation technologies have attracted more consideration to obtaining rough or final high-quality products. Due to the dissimilarity of physical properties like particle size and density, valuable and gangue minerals can be segregated via size-based and density-based separation technologies. Removing the impurities and recovering the target minerals are accomplished by size-based separation technologies alone or are usually followed by cleaning processes utilizing density-based separation abilities. The density variation among valuable and gangue minerals leads to dissimilarities in settling velocity in …

Geological Soil Formation For Ecological Restoration Of Mining Areas And Its Case Study, Hu Zhenqi, Zhang Zixuan, Sun Huang

Coal Geology & Exploration

Soil is an important substrate of plant growth, as well as the key for successful ecological restoration of mine. In view of the status of insufficient soil for most of ecological restoration of mine and the reality of a very long process of geological soil formation, the concept and method of geological soil formation for ecological restoration of mine (Mine-GSF for short) were discussed on the basis of description on the principle of natural geological soil formation. Natural geologic soil formation is the process of turning “rock” into “soil” through a long period of macro-geological cycle and biological cycle, including …

Path Planning Of Coal Mine Rescue Robot Based On Improved A* Algorithm, Zhang Weimin, Zhang Yue, Zhang Hui

Coal Geology & Exploration

A coal mine rescue robot that performs a rescue task needs to obtain the environment model and plan a collision-free path from the current location to the target location with the built-in algorithm upon receiving a task instruction. In order to reduce the moving time of the rescue robot, the path is usually required to be time-optimal. However, the path planned by the conventional A* algorithm that is widely used at present under the grid map environment has many problems, such as many path redundancy points and large turning angle, which leads to the fact that the path is suboptimal …

Effect Of Coal Mining Subsidence Fractures On Source Of Water Absorption Of Artemisia Desertorum, Shang Jingxuan, Chen Shi, Liu Qianwen, Guo Xufeng, Guo Junting, Li Mi

Coal Geology & Exploration

Ground fissures caused by coal mining subsidence are not only a serious geological hazard, but also affect the growth and development of vegetation in the mining area and damage the mining ecosystem. To investigate the quantitative influence of coal mining subsidence fractures on the source of water uptaken by Artemisia Desertorum, the simulated precipitation tests of isotopically-labeled water were conducted in three test areas influenced by coal mining subsidence fractures to different degrees on 22312-working face of Huojitu mine field in Shendong mining area. The three test areas were divided according to the distance between Artemisia Desertorum and the fractures, …

Prediction Method And Application Of Gas Emission From Mining Workface Based On Stl-Eemd-Ga-Svr, Lin Haifei, Liu Shihao, Zhou Jie, Xu Peiyun, Shuang Haiqing

Coal Geology & Exploration

Accurate prediction of gas emission can provide important basis for mine ventilation and the prevention and measures of gas disasters. In order to improve the prediction accuracy of gas emission in the mining workface, the monitoring data of gas emission were decomposed into the trend term, periodic term and irregular fluctuation term by the Seasonal-Trend decomposition procedure based on Loess (STL) based on the monitoring data of gas emission from the mining workface of Huangling Mine in Shaanxi. Besides, the irregular fluctuation term was further broken down into the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) components with different characteristics and the residual …

Study On Performance Optimization Of Gasification Slag Based Paste Filling Materials In Ningdong Mining Area, Chen Denghong, Li Chao, Zhang Zhiguo

Coal Geology & Exploration

As one of the nine coal bases at hundred million ton level in Yellow River Basin, Ningdong Mining Area has nearly 2×10⁸ t of coal-based solid waste produced annually, and faces to the problems of large stock of gasification slag, difficulty in scaled utilization, and limited space for simple landfill. Filling mining could solve the problem of stockpiling, of which the cost is high and the performance needs to be optimized. According to the response surface method, 17 groups of central composite experiments were designed for the three factors at three levels: the mixing amount of gasification slag in …

Influence Of The Preparation Technique On The Magnetic Characteristics Of Ε-Fe2o3-Based Composites, Dmitriy O. Testov, Kamil G. Gareev, Ivan K. Khmelnitskiy, Andrei Kosterov, Leonid Surovitskii, Victor V. Luchinin

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

ε-Fe2O3 is an iron(III) oxide polymorph attracting an increasing interest due to its unique magnetic properties combining extremely high coercivity and relatively large saturation magnetization. We review existing methods for the ε-Fe2O3 synthesis focusing on synthesis speed, repeatability, manufacturability and purity of the final product. Samples of ε-Fe2O3 have been synthesized using the two methods that appear the most promising: silica gel impregnation and microemulsion. In both cases, ε-Fe2O3 and α-Fe2O3 are present in the final product as attested by X-ray diffraction patterns and magnetic properties (maximum coercive force at 300 K~1 Tesla). Two different precursors, iron(III) nitrate and iron(II) …

Geochemical Characteristics And Sedimentary Model Of Shales In Lower Member Of Zhongjiangou Formation In Wudun Sag, Dunhuang Basin, Deng Wei, Yang Tao, Fan Shenglong, Liu Zirui, Wan Xuhui, Xiao Juanyi, Cao Taotao

Coal Geology & Exploration

Analysis on the sedimentary environment of shale is of great significance for the evaluation of shale gas reservoir and the optimization of sweet spot. In order to deeply explore the depositional environment of organic-rich shale and the mechanism of organic matter accumulation in the Lower member of Zhongjiangou Formation of Wudun Sag in Dunhuang Basin, the TOC content, maceral composition, carbon isotope, major elements, trace elements and rare earth element were tested based on DY1 well. The results indicate that the lithologies of the Lower member of Zhongjiangou Formation in Wudun Sag are gray-black carbonaceous shale and silty shale with …

Laws And Prevention Methods Of Ground Cracks In Shallow Coal Seam Mining, Hou Enke, Xie Xiaoshen, Feng Dong, Chen Qiuji, Che Xiaoyang, Hou Pengfei

Coal Geology & Exploration

The large-scale and high-intensity mining of shallow coal seams in northern Shaanxi has induced serious ground collapse, resulting in land damage in large area, water and soil loss, and vegetation death, and thus leading to the epigenetic environment degradation. In order to understand the development law of ground collapse and fracture in shallow coal seam mining, clarify its mechanism, and put forward the appropriate treatment and restoration measures to realize the coordinated development of “coal-water-ecology”, Zhangjiamao mine field and Ningtiaota mine field in northern Shaanxi were taken as the study area. On this basis, the development law and control methods …