Gas Content Based Outburst Control Technology in Australia

摘要

The violent and unexpected nature of the phenomena enhances the mining risk and danger to mine workers．A number of techniques are used to predict and prevent the Occurrence of the outbursts and to protect mine workers from the consequence of outburst incidents．This paper outlines the gas content based outburst control technology，one of the successful outburst control technologies，applied in Australian coal mines．Some aspects of the current technology，which are perceived as either inadequate，inappropriate or impractical，are also highlighted in this paper together with the research strategies to address the concerns．