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Preventing and fighting spontaneous combustion by foam pulp in Bobov dol coal field

Conference ·
OSTI ID:269223
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  1. Univ. of Mining of Geology, Sofia (Bulgaria)
The coal seams at Bobov dol basin are highly prone to spontaneous combustion in Bulgaria. The risks of endogenous fires (SPONCOM) exist mainly in gob area. During the last 15 years three different technologies for preventing and fighting SPONCOM have been applied in underground mines of this basin: pulp from hard material and water, foam and inerting with nitrogen. On the basis of experimental application of these technologies as well as theoretical and experimental research a new technology - Foam Pulp Technology (FPT) was worked out. It is very effective in difficult to reach places in a gob.
OSTI ID:
269223
Report Number(s):
CONF-9506227--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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