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Experimental Analysis of the Dynamic Effects of Coal–Gas Outburst and a Protean Contraction and Expansion Flow Model

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As one of the most serious dynamic disasters in underground coal mining, coal–gas outburst (CGO) leads to very high casualties and economic losses. To research the dynamic effects of disasters and further understand the mechanism of CGO, a large-scale physical simulation test system for coal mine dynamic disasters was used to conduct experiments. The results of this research indicate that there is an obvious choking phenomenon when the pressure drops in coal seams; the direction in which the pressure drop zone extends is consistent with the CGO cavern under the action of the geo-stress. The patterns of the two-phase flow of a CGO can be classified into three types: spurting flow, sparse flow and dense flow. There is a significant secondary acceleration process during the motion of pulverized coal in the roadway. The deposition characteristics of CGO coal exhibit a normal distribution in the roadway. In addition, the sedimentation of CGO coal has a good correlation with its particle size. In the initial stage of the CGO, the flow pattern in the roadway is dominated by weak disturbances, which are then superimposed as strong shock waves in the middle of the roadway. Based on the experimental results, a protean contraction and expansion flow model that contains a key structure for outbursts is proposed, and this model can properly describe the dynamic effects of the CGO based on fluid flow patterns.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (Grant No. 2016ZX05044-002) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 51874055).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China

    Bin Zhou, Jiang Xu, Shoujian Peng, Fazhi Yan, Liang Cheng & Guanhua Ni

  2. Key Laboratory of Coal Methane and Fire Control, Ministry of Education, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, Jiangsu, China

    Wei Yang

  3. College of Mining and Safety Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China

    Guanhua Ni

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Zhou, B., Xu, J., Peng, S. et al. Experimental Analysis of the Dynamic Effects of Coal–Gas Outburst and a Protean Contraction and Expansion Flow Model. Nat Resour Res 29, 1617–1637 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-019-09552-y

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