Development of a quantitative assessment approach for the coal and gas outbursts in coal mines using rock engineering systems

Abstract

In this study, a new approach is proposed and developed for evaluating the comprehensive outburst index (range between 0 and 100), which is a quantitative assessment approach and will enable us to better understand the risk degree of coal and gas outburst in coal mines. By selecting some typical risk-free and high-risk outburst mines from China as the evaluation targets, we assessed their comprehensive outburst indexes with the developed approach. The assessment results are fully consistent with the actual situations, which indicates that our new developed approach is reliable and can be recommended for applying in more coal mines.

Keywords:

• Coal and gas outburst
• coal geology
• rock engineering systems
• interaction matrix
• mine hazards

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for financial supports and also thanks to Dr. Zhang for helping in collecting data.