**Preface**

Coal is an important part of natural resources and the focus of social energy and economic development. With the increase in the energy demand, the amount of coal mining is also increasing, which leads to many safety problems. Improving the elevels of safety in the coal mining process while ensuring that coal production is carried out at an acceptable level is a problem that we must attach great importance to. In this book, we collect, revise and collate the latest work of the main researchers, covering the theory and technology of coal mine disaster prevention and control, safety management and control in the process of coal mining, mineral processing and intelligent/ green mining engineering, mining environmental protection and sustainable development, and other aspects of safety technology research, focusing on coal mine production safety.

The book contains a total of 27 articles, and discusses and studies the progress of safety research in theory, experiments and simulation. In the research of coal mine production safety related-fields, the contents include mine ventilation, fire and explosion prevention, gas drainage, coal dust prevention, safety equipment and so on. In addition, there are studies on coal mine safety, production safety, management safety and ancient building safety. These articles have solved the outstanding challenges related to production safety in different fields from the perspectives of theory, experiment and application.

The book was collected, collated and revised by Du Feng, Zhou Aitao and Li Bo, who aim to provide some guidance and a reference for production safety in the field of coal mines, and hope to inspire scientific research workers in the field of coal mine and geology. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52130409 and 52004291). This work has been strongly supported and guided by the editorial department. Here together to express my heartfelt thanks.

Due to the limited experience of some editors, there may be omissions and errors in the book. Readers are kindly requested to criticize and correct them.

> **Feng Du, Aitao Zhou, and Bo Li** *Editors*
