Author 1:

Name & Surname: Kachurin N. M.
Company: Tula State University (Tula, Russia)
Work Position: Head of Geotechnologies and Underground Construction Chair
Scientific Degree: Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences

Contacts: e-mail: ecology@tsu.tula.ru

Author 2:

Name & Surname: Efimov V. I.
Company: Mining Institute of National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Moscow, Russia)
Work Position: Professor
Scientific Degree: Doctor of Engineering Sciences

Author 3:

Name & Surname: Vorobev S. A.
Company: Belgorod State University (Belgorod, Russia)
Scientific Degree: Candidate of Engineering Sciences

In focus is geotechnological impact of underground coal mining on the environment. It is shown that the intensity of influence exerted by underground coking coal extraction on the environment is characterized by an integral index of ecological safety, derived based on regular patterns of dust and gas emission, process water discharge and land disturbance and their interconnection with mine capacity and energy consumption. The authors offer the mathematical model based on a logistic-type differential equation for forecasting of underground coal mining impact on the environment for various scenarios of energy consumption. The mathematical modeling appropriateness was assessed using the in situ observation data from Kusbass mines. Matching of the model of dust and gas emission based on time series obtained from ecological monitoring against the mathematical models of emission formation allows the analytical connection between parameters of these models. The calculations were preformed for the Koksovaya, Zenkovskaya, Voroshilov, Dzerzhinsky, Ziminka and Tyrganskaya Mines in the Kemerovo Region. The resultant trend of predicted bulk dust and gas emission coincides with the actual data (correlation factor 0.98).

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