Spontaneous combustion of coal is a hazard that is likely to occur during coal mining, storage, transport, and utilisation under favourable circumstances. Shendong coalfield, located in the Inner Mongolian region, is the largest coalfield and the most important energy supplier in China. Due to a variety of geological and operational reasons, spontaneous combustion has occurred in several operations and become a major threat to mining operations and coal reserve recovery in Shendong coal mines. This monograph summarises years’ research outcome of the team, which is presented with several chapters. These chapters include a critical investigation of situation of this hazard in Shendong coal mi

1 General Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Problem statement
1.3 Research objectives
1.4 Research framework
2 Fundamental Knowledge of the Hazard
2.1 Fundamentals of coal self-heating and oxidation kinetics
2.2 Numerical solutions to self-heating of coal mass
2.3 Theoretical basis of coal heating
2.4 Experimental methods
2.5 Detection
2.6 Control
3 A critical Investigation of Spontaneous Combustion in Shendong Coal Mines
3.1 Introduction of Shendong coal field
3.2 Spontaneous combustion incidents
3.3 Detailed analysis of characteristic spontaneous combustion problems
3.4 Summary
4 Laboratory Tests of Shendong Coals
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