SMART SYSTEMS FOR CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF DUST DEPOSITS IN THE NETWORK OF COAL MINES
Dust control remains an urgent task of modern research in the field of industrial safety. To increase the level of dust explosion protection of coal enterprises, an objective instrumental method is required to control the dust explosion safety of mine workings, which provides high accuracy, efficiency and ease of use. The theoretical substantiation and test results of a system for continuous automatic control of the concentration of dust in the mine atmosphere and dust deposits as a subsystem of the MFSS of a coal mine are presented. Analysis of modern Russian and international experience in the field of creating devices for monitoring the parameters of coal aerosol showed that the existing methods and means for monitoring dustiness and dust explosion safety of mine workings do not fully meet the requirements of the provisions of regulatory documents, therefore, the purpose of research is to solve this problem. It is shown that in connection with the requirements of new regulatory documents, monitoring of the state of upper-air safety of mine workings can be carried out in real time using a new generation system using artificial intelligence, which allows measurements of basic physical parameters affecting dust deposition, for example: dispersed composition, humidity air, dust concentration and air velocity. The complex of laboratory and mine studies of the developed system of continuous automatic control of dust content and intensity of dust deposits - the SKIP device - confirmed the correctness of the developed physical model for assessing the state of dust explosion safety in coal mines.