Coal Fires and Their Impact on the Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Coal fires are a phenomenon induced by the coal–oxygen reaction associated with all the processes of the coal industry: coal mining, coal storage, coal transportation, and coal utilization. Coal fires not only threaten coal mining, coal storage, and coal transportation due to burning through significant coal resources, it also have impacts that are harmful to human health and the surrounding eco-environment, such as surface subsidence, air pollution, soil contamination, and the release of gases and particles that are toxic to humans. Systematic further research on coal fires and their impacts on the eco-environment is vital in order to deal with this issue efficiently and effectively.

This Special Issue aims to demonstrate the latest research work on coal fires and their consequences. It will expand and enrich the literature on the mechanisms behind coal fire occurrence, detection, monitoring, and early warning, the development of effective and efficient methods and technologies, and the quantification of the environmental impacts of coal fires.

The theme of coal fires is well suited to the scope of Fire.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The mechanisms behind coal fire occurrence and propagation;
• The detection, monitoring, and early warning of coal fires;
• The development of effective and efficient methods and technologies against coal fires;
• The quantification of the impacts of coal fires on the environment;
• The ecological restoration of coal fire sites.

We welcome the submission of original research articles, case studies, experimental reports, and reviews for this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Qiang Zeng
Prof. Dr. Ting Ren
Guest Editors

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• mechanism of coal fire occurrence
• coal fire propagation
• monitoring and early warnings of coal fire
• coal fire impacts on the environment
• utilization of resource at coal fire sites
• ecological restoration of coal fire sites