Distribution of methane enrichment zone in abandoned coal mine and methane drainage by surface vertical boreholes: A case study from China

Many abandoned mines with small gobs were produced by the old mining method in China. These gobs with different widths contain a considerable amount of methane. In this paper, FLAC3D software is used to investigate the rock mass stress distributions. Based on the stress distribution results, the met...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Feng, G., Hu, S., Li, Z., Jiang, H., Zhang, Y., Xu, Guang, Wang, Z., Kang, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: ELSEVIER 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33309