When urban waste is used as a backfilling material to backfill the goaf, the strength, tightness, and backfilling equipment of the material must be considered, and none of them are indispensable. This technology mainly includes two parts: waste processing and goaf backfilling.
2.1 Waste disposal and processing technology
2.1.1 Waste performance screening
Urban waste includes domestic waste, construction industry waste, and medical waste, etc. Non-recyclable waste is screened. According to its strength, structure, composition and other characteristics, it is divided into solid aggregate waste such as coal gangue, concrete, slag, etc. and other low-strength loose waste such as waste plastics and electronic waste, etc. On this basis, the solid aggregate is screened with a powerful vibrating screen to ensure that the aggregate particle size is less than 40 mm.
2.1.2 Waste processing technology
The screened waste is processed and packaged into blocks to meet the requirements of backfilling materials. First, the solid aggregates with a particle size larger than 40mm are sent to the jaw crusher to ensure that the particle size is smaller than 40mm; Secondly, considering the leachate problem of waste as a backfilling material, the strength of loose waste, and avoiding secondary pollution in the mine during transportation, the design of a waste drying and briquetting integrated machine (see Figure 1), after the equipment is processed, the loose waste is compressed into a block with a particle size of 150mm, followed by a six-sided sealed winding packaging.
In Figure 1: 1- Pressure mechanism, 2- Heating forming partition, 3- The seepage frame, 4- Leachate hole, 5- Unload the bottom plate, 6-Bottom handle, 7- Load-bearing pier, 8-Upper beam, 9-Pillar, 10- The base.
After the crushing of solid aggregate waste and the compression and packaging of loose waste, two types of backfilling materials are finally formed, namely solid aggregate backfilling materials and block backfilling materials.
2.2 Goaf backfilling
In coal mining, the goaf is backfilled with processed solid aggregate backfilling materials and block backfilling materials, and the waste-backfilling mining method in the goaf is designed here, as shown in Figure 2.
In Figure 2: 1-Belt conveyor, 2- Transportation roadway, 3- Bridge conveyor, 4- Scraper conveyor, 5- Shearer, 6- Backfilling the hydraulic support, 7- Backfilling scraper conveyor, 8- Unwinding baffle, 9- Rhombic retractable blocking net, 10- Advance support, 11- Bridge conveyor for transporting materials, 12- Concrete mixer, 13- Roadway of the return wind, 14- Sewage pump, 15- Belt conveyor for transporting materials, 16- Block backfilling body, 17- Solid aggregate backfilling body, 18- Tamping machine, 19- Tamper the baffle, 20- Compact jack, 21- Storage chamber, L- Backfilling length of goaf, h- Mining height, a, b, c- are the heights of the top, middle, and bottom of the goaf backfilling, respectively.
2.2.1 Sealed backfilling
Considering that the backfilling material is urban waste, if water inrush occurs in the goaf area, a large amount of underground waste leachate may be brought in, resulting in mine pollution. Disposal of waste, but pollutants must not be passed on to the mine, so the entire goaf must be sealed for disposal.
(1) First of all, in the initial stage of the mining roadway excavation, the side of the coal pillar of the roadway of the return wind, the open cut and the transportation roadway are sprayed with concrete
(2) Secondly, during the backfilling process, each backfilling cycle includes bottom backfilling, middle backfilling and top backfilling of the goaf. The top and bottom parts of the backfilling body are backfilled with recycled concrete formed by "solid aggregate + cement". The estimated backfilling thickness is c=100 mm at the bottom and a=200 mm at the top.
(3) Finally, when the mining at this working face is completed, the concrete shotcrete treatment is also carried out at the coal pillar of the stop line to form a six-sided enclosed backfilling space.
(4) In order to ensure the strength of the backfilling body and the sealing of the backfilling gap, after the backfilling is completed, the backfilling body is grouted and cemented.
2.2.2 Backfilling facilities
(1) Considering the strength of the backfilling body in the goaf and the top backfilling problem, a tamping machine and a tamper the baffle are designed in the backfilling part.
(2) Considering that the backfilling material can accurately backfill the goaf and without material exposure under the support, a side-discharge backfilling scraper conveyor is designed (see Figure 3). Set a discharge port for every other support, that is, each discharge port is responsible for the backfilling space within the width of the two supports, and the tamper baffle is seamlessly overlapped with the backfilling scraper conveyor when unloading.
(3) Fully considering that each backfilling cycle can be completed independently and effectively, to ensure that the backfilling materials in the previous cycle will not leak and slip to the backfilling space of the next cycle. Rhombic retractable blocking net (see Figure 4) is set between the tamper baffle of every two supports.
In Figure 4: 1- The tamper baffle of the adjacent support, 2- The tamper baffle of the support of this cycle operation, 3- Retractable net.
(4) Taking into account the solidification of the "solid aggregate + cement" recycled concrete material, firstly, cement with a long setting time should be selected. And secondly, the mixing point of the recycled concrete should be close to the goaf area, so a concrete mixer should be installed in the roadway of the return wind.
(5) Finally, considering that each backfilling cycle is completed by alternate backfilling of solid aggregates and block wastes, materials transportation is complicated, so the storage chamber is designed next to the concrete mixer to store solid aggregates and cement to ensure that the backfilling work takes over in an orderly manner.
2.2.3 Calculation of theoretical backfilling volume
Under the premise of ensuring the backfilling efficiency and the roof will not collapse and sink, the amount of backfilling material required for the goaf backfilling theoretically is the amount of coal mined. According to the advancement of the working face, the required backfilling amount for each cycle is calculated. The amount of backfilling materials required to design the bottom, middle and top backfilling are V1, V2 and V3 respectively:
Where: 2- The length of each filling cycle is the width of the two supports; B- Backfilling the width of the hydraulic support; D- Cycle progress of the shearer; R1, R2- Compression ratio of block backfilling materials and solid aggregate backfilling materials, generally 3~5, and R1>R2.