MINING, POWER ENGINEERING AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

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Parent Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2013

Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2013, Issue 110

UDC 622.001.5+620.9+502

Authors:

Bulat A.F., Acad. NASU, D. Sc. (Tech.), Professor (IGTM NAS of Ukraine)

Chetverik M.S., D.Sc. (Tech.), Professor (IGTM NAS of Ukraine)

Abstract. Mining industry is closely connected with electric energy production and environmental protection. Usually, in the course of production process, serious contradictions arise between these huge complexes, and only their joint efforts could determine rational, environmentally sound and cost-effective trends of the industries development. In this paper, interdependency between mining, energetic and ecological problems are described. Power generation in the world is analyzed. Problems of thermal energy production in Ukraine are represented: today, coal is mined at increasingly deeper horizons resulting in increased coal cost and disturbed natural environment: atmosphere, earth and water. Data on Ukrainian resources for uranium ore extraction are viewed including different underground practices  for uranium ore extraction and underground leaching. Key trends of nuclear power development and establishment of nuclear power plants with small-modular reactors are analyzed.

The paper also presents research schools of the IGTM, NAS of Ukraine, in the field of mining at great depths and contribution of leading researchers of the IGTM in solving mining, energetic and environmental problems. Works of the IGTM, NASU, in the field of improving of thermal power plants efficiency are set forth.

Keywords: problems, mining, energy, environment, IGTM.

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About the authors:

Bulat Anatoly Fedorovich, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences (D. Sc), Professor, Director of the Institute, M.S. Polyakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM, NASU), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Chetverik Mikhail Sergeyevich, Doctor of Technical Sciences (D. Sc), Professor, Head of Department of Geomechanics of Mineral Opencast Mining Technology, M.S. Polyakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IGTM, NASU), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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