Selection of promising coal mines for implementing project of hydrogen production from coal mine methane

Authors: Tailakov O. V.

Advanced methods of coal gas drainage toward safe underground coal mining are reviewed. The forecast of coal mine methane emission in Kuzbass for the near decade shows that the methane emission volume is to keep at the level more than one billion cubic meters per year. The prospects of hydrogen production during processing of coal mine methane are discussed. Using the cluster analysis, centroids of three coal mines with similar values of relative and absolute methane contents are determined in Kuzbass. For a pilot project of coal methane utilization, two mines in the center and south of the coal basin, with the highest absolute gas contents are recommended. The averaged composition of gases in methane–air mixtures recovered by mine drainage systems is described. The generalized flow chart is proposed for coal mine methane processing with a view to producing hydrogen in the steam reforming circuit. Here, after removal of oxygen and nitrogen from methane-and-air mixture, hydrogen is formed in a tubular reactor in the presence of a nickel catalyst. The results are applicable in coal mine methane processing projects aimed to reduce emission of this greenhouse gas in air. Further advancement in coal mine methane recovery and processing can be promoted by formation of a carbon market in Russia.

Keywords: coal mine methane, hydrogen, coal seam, low-carbon development, coal mining, underground coal mining, cluster analysis, methane content, gas drainage, methane utilization, gas content, steam conversion.
For citation:

Tailakov O. V. Selection of promising coal mines for implementing project of hydrogen production from coal mine methane. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2024;(11):88-100. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2024_11_0_88.

Acknowledgements:

The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 22-13-20040, https://rscf.ru/project/22-13-20040/, and by the Kemerovo Region–Kuzbass.

Issue number: 11
Year: 2024
Page number: 88-100
ISBN: 0236-1493
UDK: 542.73, 543.272.71, 622.411.33
DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2024_11_0_88
Article receipt date: 08.05.2024
Date of review receipt: 07.06.2024
Date of the editorial board′s decision on the article′s publishing: 10.10.2024
About authors:

O.V. Tailakov, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Chief Researcher, Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 650065, Kemerovo, Russia, e-mail: iu@ic.sbras.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5046-0476.

 

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