Abstract:
During the mining process of working face, how to realize the efficient gas drainage in goaf has been an important problem to be solved in the field of coal mine safety. The overburden mining-induced fractures are the main space for gas storage and transportation in the goaf of working face, and their evolution process is closely related to the movement of overburden key strata. The fundamental way to solve the problem of efficient gas drainage in the goaf of working face is by understanding the movement characteristics of mining overburden, the reversing spatial morphology of overburden mining-induced fractures, thus proposing accurate gas drainage technology. In the deep mining conditions of a coal mine in Shanxi, using the surface borehole full-columnar in-situ monitoring method, the evolution process of overburden movement during the mining process of the working face is studied to reveal the movement characteristics of the key strata. On this basis, the spatial morphology development characteristics of overburden mining-induced fracture is obtained by inversion, and the specific ranges of “three zones” of overlying gas release and migration, “O” shaped fissure zone, and the “horizontal three zones” of overburden movement are determined. A precise extraction technology is proposed for directional long borehole in roof on the test working face, including the borehole layout level, the horizontal distance extending into the working face, and the optimal time for drainage. The test results show that the overburden movement under deep mining conditions will go through five processes of change, including the influence stage of coal wall support, the stage of breaking movement of low-level rock layer, the rapid rotation stage of broken overlying rock, the downward compaction stage of high-level overlying rock, and the stable stage of overall overburden movement. Among them, in the stage of breaking movement of low-level rock layer and the rapid rotation stage of broken overlying rock, the overburden mining-induced fracture space develops rapidly and the separation space in the overburden and breaking fracture penetrate each other and form a gas-conducting fracture zone, which provides space for the gas gathering and transportation in the mining area, and it is a favorable time to extract the goaf gas. The precise extraction technology of directional long borehole in roof based on the spatial morphology inversion of overburden mining-induced fractures makes the gas drainage ratio be improved by an average of 57.5%, effectively ensuring the safe mining of the working face.