Research on Geological Hazards and Geological Environment Issues Related to Mine Water

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 1936

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School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Interests: mine water environment; mine geological hazard; reservoir seepage and geomechanics

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1. Key Laboratory of Coalbed Methane Resources and Reservoir Formation Process, Ministry of Education, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221008, China
2. School of Resources and Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: hydrogeochemistry; mine water environment; coal geology; hydrology; coal geochemistry
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College of Geology and Environment, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China
Interests: mine water environment; prevention and control of mine water hazard; mine water utilization

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Dear Colleagues,

Underground mining is often accompanied by the discharge of a large amount of mine water. Mine water is an important resource as well as a disastrous fluid. Mine water and water co-produced with unconventional natural gas also cause environmental pollution. Measures must be taken to ensure mine safety production, prevent environmental pollution and protect water resources. This Special Issue will present research on geological hazards and geological environment issues related to mine water. It is expected to deliver practical, forward-looking, and enlightening perspectives, methods, and techniques and benefit academic scientists, applied researchers, industry engineers, and policy- and decisionmakers. Sample topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: mine water hazard, geological hazard related to mine water, mine water utilization, coal mine underground reservoir, water co-produced with coalbed methane/unconventional natural gas, hydrogeochemistry of mine water, environmental effect of mine water, and mine water irrigation.

This journal, Water, has a good academic reputation, with an updated CiteScore of 5.5, ranking 59/248 (Q1) in “Water Science and Technology” and 40/228 in “Aquatic Science”. All manuscripts submitted for this Special Issue will undergo strict but fast peer review. The accepted papers will be published in the journal as normal papers and will be indexed by SCI soon.

Dr. Guoqing Li
Dr. Zheng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Jian Yang
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Keywords

  • geological hazards related to mine water
  • mine water utilization
  • coal mine underground reservoir
  • hydrogeochemistry of mine water
  • water co-produced with coalbed methane/unconventional natural gas
  • mine water irrigation
  • mine water environment

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Dynamics of River Flood Waves below Hydropower Dams and Their Relation to Natural Floods
by Robert E. Criss
Water 2024, 16(8), 1099; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16081099 - 11 Apr 2024
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The dynamic behavior of flood waves on rivers is essential to flood prediction. Natural flood waves are complex due to tributary inputs, rainfall variations, and overbank flows, so this study examines hydropower dam releases, which are simpler to analyze because channel effects are [...] Read more.
The dynamic behavior of flood waves on rivers is essential to flood prediction. Natural flood waves are complex due to tributary inputs, rainfall variations, and overbank flows, so this study examines hydropower dam releases, which are simpler to analyze because channel effects are isolated. Successive arrival times and heights of peaks along 9 rivers with multiple stream gauges downstream of hydroelectric dams show that flow peaks typically become exponentially lower and wider with distance. The propagation velocity of peaks increases with water depth and channel slope but decreases with downstream distance and greater channel tortuosity. A rich hierarchy of velocities was found. Hydropower pulses progress at or in slight excess of the theoretical celerity, which is faster than the propagation rate of average natural floods, which in turn exceeds the mean velocity of water in the channel, yet the water moves faster than the peaks of record floods. The progressive changes to the height, shape, and velocity of hydropower flow peaks are simulated by the first analytical solution to the convolution integral for a rectangular source pulse that is based on diffusion-advection theory. Available data support some widely held expectations while refuting others. An expanded definition of “water mining” is proposed. Full article
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