Contract No. 800711
Period of implementation: September 1, 2018 – August 31, 2021.
Source of funding: The European Union’s Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant W93/FBWiS/2018).
Project participants:
- Strata Mechanics Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences — project coordinator:
- Division of Flow Metrology,
- Division of Micromeritics
- Division of Mine Ventilation.
- Główny Instytut Górnictwa (Poland),
- Imperial College London (Great Britain),
- Eickhoff Bergbautechnik GmbH (Germany),
- Premogovnik Velenje (Słovenia),
- Polska Grupa Górnicza S.A. (Poland).
The aim of the project is to develop a prototype control system for the operation of a mining machine in the mining face in order to eliminate or minimize undesired and unplanned production downtime due to exceeding permissible values of gas emissions in mining areas of underground coal and lignite mines through monitoring of the production process and environment and appropriate adjustment of equipment operation to these conditions.
Project reports:
Contact person: D. Sc. Eng. Jerzy Krawczyk, Associate Professor
