Underground Coal fire Mapping using Analysis of Self-Potential (SP) Data Collected from Akashkinaree Colliery, Jharia Coalfield, India
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Department of Applied Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - 826 004
Sahadev Kumar -
Department of Applied Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - 826 004
Sanjit Kumar Pal
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Sub-surface coal mine fires burn valuable resources and give rise to great threat in the local environs and people's health. Jharia coal field is one of utmost fire affected coal fields in India. This paper deals with the study of sub-surface coal fire using selfpotential (SP) method, a cost-effective and non-invasive passive geophysical technique. SP method in coal fire mapping works based on redox potential generated by oxidation of coal and also on Thomson potential due to temperature gradient. Initially, SP anomaly map generated using electrode drift corrected field data. The SP anomalies in the present study area vary from ∼95 to ∼-40mV. SP anomaly map has been continued to a height of 10m from the ground to remove the possible shallow surface noises. The upward continued anomaly map has been enhanced using first vertical derivative. Further, Euler's depth solutions have been estimated to understand possible geometry and source depth of sub-surface coal fires. The local geological map and field photograph corroborate well with the results for the characterization of coal seam fires.
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