A Study on Optimum Ventilation System in the Deep Coal Mine

Abstract This paper aims for the ultimate goal to optimize the work place environment through assuring the optimal required ventilation rate based on the analysis of the airflow. The working environment is deteriorated due to a rise in temperature of a coal mine caused by increase of its depth and carriage tunnels. To improve the environment, the ventilation evaluation on J coal mine is carried out and the effect of a length of the tunnel on the temperature to enhance the ventilation efficiency in the subsurface is numerically analyzed. The analysis shows that J coal mine needs 17,831 m 3 /min for in-flow ventilation rate but the total input air flowrate is 16,474 m 3 /min, 1,357 m 3 /min of in-flow ventilation rate shortage. The temperatures were predicted on the two developed models of J mine, and VnetPC that is a numerical program for the flowrate prediction. The result of the simulation notices the temperature in the case of developing all 4 areas of -425ML as a first model is predicted 29.30 at the main gangway 9X of C section and in the case of developing 3 areas of -425ML excepting A area as a second model, it is predicted 27.45 Celsius degrees.Key words Coal mine, Artificial Neural Network, Temperature prediction, Ventilation system초 록 본 연구에서는 적정 소요환기량의 확보를 통한 갱내 환경의 최적화를 위한 기초연구로 갱내 소요환기량을 추정하였다. 채굴의 심부화 및 운행갱도의 증가로 인한 온도상승으로 작업환경이 점차 악화되는 광산에서 작업환경의 개선을 위하여 J광업소를 대상으로 환기평가를 하였으며 갱내의 환기효율을 증가시키기 위하여 갱도의 길이에 따른 온도에 대한 효과를 수치 해석하였다 . 연구결과 J광업소의 소요환기량은 17,831 m