Online coal dust suppression system for opencast coal mines

International Journal of Coal Science & Technology

Short Report

Jerry Daniel¹  S. Jithin¹  S. S. Shankar¹  S. Sandeep¹  Muhammed Irshad¹  Senju Panicker¹  Tarique Sajjad² 

[1]Control and Instrumentation Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

[2]Mining Electronics Department, Central Mine Planning and Design Institute, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

关键词: Coal dust;    Dust suppression;    Sprinkling;    Automation;    Particulate matter;    PM;    PM;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s40789-023-00624-2

 received in 2022-12-29, accepted in 2023-08-10,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Coal is the major source of power in India and world over. Coal mining is an essential industry which has a major role in the economic development of the country. Most major mining activities contribute directly or indirectly to air pollution. Coal dust is a major air pollutant which affects the personal working in the mines and also people residing in villages near the mines. Air pollution due to coal particulates can affect human health and cause damages to the environment. Hence effective pollution control mechanisms are needed to keep the pollution levels within permissible levels. The easiest and most common method employed for dust suppression worldwide is sprinkling of water. In majority of mines, water sprinklers are operated manually and can lead to wastage of water due to over sprinkling. It can also prove to be ineffective in dust suppression if sprinkling is not done properly. The paper proposes a system which can be deployed to automate the dust suppressions sprinklers. The system will monitor the concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 in the air and initiate sprinkling operation when the particulate matter content exceeds preconfigured limits.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© China Coal Research Institute 2023

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