An apparatus for improving the safety and efficiency of underground mining by issuing intelligent warnings of impending coal or rock dynamic disasters includes at least one coal or rock charge probe adaptable to a coal or rock face and configured to detect charge data generated by coal or rock cracking during a mining process, and a monitoring host electrically connected to the coal or rock charge probe and configured to receive the charge data and issue a warning of an impending coal or rock dynamic disaster when warranted by the charge data. In embodiments, the apparatus includes a plurality of channels, and is non-contacting and/or portable.

Provided are a system and a method for monitoring bearing compression rate of a filler in a coal mine gob area. An ground information processing system, a vibration source control system, and a monitoring system are arranged on the ground according to a buried depth of the filler in the gob area. The vibration source control system generates vibration, and transmits a signal to the filler. The monitoring system on the ground receives different reflected waves according to different elasticities of the fillers under different compaction degrees. Final data is transmitted to the ground information processing system for data processing. The monitoring of the filler starts when the filler is filled in the gob area; the filler is gradually compacted. The filler is monitored until the thickness of the filler does not change. Finally, a bearing compression rate formula is utilized to calculate the bearing compression rate of the filler.

Provided are a system and a method for monitoring bearing compression rate of a filler in a coal mine gob area. An ground information processing system, a vibration source control system, and a monitoring system are arranged on the ground according to a buried depth of the filler in the gob area. The vibration source control system generates vibration, and transmits a signal to the filler. The monitoring system on the ground receives different reflected waves according to different elasticities of the fillers under different compaction degrees. Final data is transmitted to the ground information processing system for data processing. The monitoring of the filler starts when the filler is filled in the gob area; the filler is gradually compacted. The filler is monitored until the thickness of the filler does not change. Finally, a bearing compression rate formula is utilized to calculate the bearing compression rate of the filler.

Disclosed is a system and a method of transient electromagnetic advanced detection. The system includes a detection host, an electromagnetic signal transmitter, a probe, and a communication device. The system and method of transient electromagnetic advance detection disclosed by examples of the present disclosure can realize an early-warning through a transient electromagnetic advance detection in a borehole while drilling the borehole in a tunnel or a roadway.

Disclosed is a system and a method of transient electromagnetic advanced detection. The system includes a detection host, an electromagnetic signal transmitter, a probe, and a communication device. The system and method of transient electromagnetic advance detection disclosed by examples of the present disclosure can realize an early-warning through a transient electromagnetic advance detection in a borehole while drilling the borehole in a tunnel or a roadway.

Methods and systems of monitoring and controlling a longwall mining system. One system includes a shearer including a cutter drum and a sensor mounted to the shearer. The system also includes an electronic controller including a processor and a memory, the electronic controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The electronic controller is configured to receive vibration data from the sensor and determine a current vibration level experienced by the cutter drum. The electronic controller is also configured to compare the current vibration level to a target vibration threshold associated with a target material seam. The electronic controller is also configured to provide a visual output to an operator of the longwall mining system when the current vibration level exceeds the target vibration threshold, where the current vibration level exceeds the target vibration threshold when the cutter drum of the shearer cuts outside of the target material seam.

A gas detection device and process detect a combustible target gas. A detector chamber (6) encloses a detector (10), and a modulator chamber (5) encloses a modulator (15). The target gas can flow from an area to be monitored through into the modulator chamber and from the modulator chamber into the detector chamber. An electrical voltage is applied to the modulator and to the detector to heat them, oxidizing the target gas in the modulator chamber and in the detector chamber. Heat energy is released bringing about an increase of the temperature of the detector. A detector sensor measures a detection variable which depends on the detector temperature. The voltage is applied to the modulator such that the temperature of the modulator oscillates. An analysis unit checks whether the detection variable oscillates synchronously with the modulator temperature, indicating the target gas is present.

A safe early warning method and device for full-section tunneling of a tunnel featuring dynamic water and weak surrounding rock, comprising establishing a dynamic coordinate system with an origin thereof moving along a tunnel excavation line, recording the moving distance of the origin, conducting three-dimensional laser scanning with the origin as a center to obtain point cloud data including coordinate data, collecting surrounding rock data; conducting deformation fitting on the point cloud data, calculating a fitting residual error, removing a noisy point, and conducting preprocessing; combining data of preprocessed point cloud, surrounding rock, and the tunnel excavation line to construct a tunnel excavation dynamic model; conducting stress analysis according to the model and determining whether to send out a safety early warning signal. The device comprises a three-dimensional laser scanner, a geological radar device, a displacement module, an industrial computer, a data transmission module, an alarm, and a server.

Disclosed is an interference protection device and method for a hydraulic support and a cutting part of a shearer. The device includes: a plurality of dust-proof cases evenly and fixedly provided on a surface of one side of a hauling part of the shearer that faces away from a coal wall, and a dust-proof housing fixed on the hydraulic support. A first ultrasonic transducer and a flash lamp are fixedly provided in each dust-proof case, and a second ultrasonic transducer, a receiver, and a data processing module are fixedly provided in the dust-proof housing. The data processing module is electrically connected to the second ultrasonic transducer and the receiver separately, the first ultrasonic transducers and the flash lamps are all electrically connected to an external single-chip microcomputer, and the data processing module is electrically connected to a hydraulic support control computer. The present invention obtains a distance from the shearer to the hydraulic support by calculation from a difference between time points at which the second ultrasonic transducer and the receiver on the hydraulic support respectively receive an ultrasonic signal and an optical signal, and thus timely controls a guard plate to retract, thereby achieving the advantages of low cost, high applicability and high reliability.

Disclosed is an interference protection device and method for a hydraulic support and a cutting part of a shearer. The device includes: a plurality of dust-proof cases evenly and fixedly provided on a surface of one side of a hauling part of the shearer that faces away from a coal wall, and a dust-proof housing fixed on the hydraulic support. A first ultrasonic transducer and a flash lamp are fixedly provided in each dust-proof case, and a second ultrasonic transducer, a receiver, and a data processing module are fixedly provided in the dust-proof housing. The data processing module is electrically connected to the second ultrasonic transducer and the receiver separately, the first ultrasonic transducers and the flash lamps are all electrically connected to an external single-chip microcomputer, and the data processing module is electrically connected to a hydraulic support control computer. The present invention obtains a distance from the shearer to the hydraulic support by calculation from a difference between time points at which the second ultrasonic transducer and the receiver on the hydraulic support respectively receive an ultrasonic signal and an optical signal, and thus timely controls a guard plate to retract, thereby achieving the advantages of low cost, high applicability and high reliability.