A kind of closed
mining and nonventilation working face is proposed,
which provides a possibility for
eliminating coal mine accidents and extracting high-purity gas. During
mining, a confined space above normal pressure is formed in the face.
Geological conditions cause significant differences in the physicochemical
properties of coal and affect the occurrence and migration of gas
in coal seams. The pore structures of five coal samples were obtained
by mercury injection and low-temperature nitrogen adsorption. The
self-made positive pressure desorption experimental device was used
to conduct isothermal desorption experiments under different environmental
pressures. An extended Langmuir model was proposed to carry out regression
analysis on the curve of positive pressure desorption with time. The
effect of coal pore structure on gas diffusion properties was discussed.
The results indicate that the development degree of micropores in
coal determines the amount of gas adsorption. With the increase of
coal rank, both the ultimate desorption quantity and desorption rate
first decrease and then increase. The positive pressure enhances the
concentration of methane outside the coal and inhibits methane diffusion.
With an increase of positive pressure, the desorption capacity of
the high-rank ZG was significantly inhibited, and the desorption limit
and initial desorption rate decreased by 15.80–44.54 and 16.92–47.93%,
respectively. The diffusion coefficient of the middle-rank XS has
the greatest decrease rate of 1.56–18.05%. The pore structure
of coal is the essential reason that affects methane diffusion.