Technology Research on Applying the Flue Gas of Mine Mouth Power Plant to Fire Prevention and Extinguishing in Goaf

Based on the concept of cleaner production, the feasibility of application of the flue gas in mine mouth power to fire prevention and extinguishing in goaf was numerically studied by taking the mechanized caving mining face 11-214 of Caocun coal mine as the example. The heterogeneity porosity and multi-component gas transport equations were introduced into the mathematical model. The calculated results showed that the area of “spontaneous combustion zone” turn small obviously in goaf and the maximum width of “spontaneous combustion zone” in goaf decreased from 78m to 9.5m after injecting the flue gas. At the same time, the sink terms of oxygen consumption was formed in the port of gas injection. The migration law of flue gas showed that the numerical calculation of goaf should select the different computation model based on the judgment basis of Reynolds number. Through the continuous monitoring of the migration of flue gas at different locations in goaf, the reasonable parameters of flue gas injection was obtained for high efficient fire prevention .