Conducting Pre-Feasibility Studies for Coal Mine Methane Projects Training
The U.S. EPA is developing this training course in support of the GMI and in conjunction with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). This course introduces principles for assessing the potential of developing projects to capture and/or use Coal Mine Methane (CMM). The introduced general approach should be underpinned by mine-specific data and analyses, allowing the principles to be tailored to the unique conditions at each mine. Ideally, such an assessment will lead to project development and implementation.
CMM project developers, third parties, mining company personnel and government officials can all benefit from this training. The course is divided into eight separate modules that are available below.
The China Coal Information Institute, in support of GMI, has translated eight of the course modules into Chinese.
The first four modules of the course are also available in Russian.
Course Modules
- Module 1: Introduction and Objectives
[view text version | module contents] - Module 2: Mine Background Information and Evaluation
[view text version | module contents] - Module 3: Resource Assessment
[view text version | module contents] - Module 4: Forecasting Methane Production from Gas Drainage Systems
[view text version | module contents] - Module 5: Improvements to Gas Drainage
[view text version | module contents] - Module 6: Quantifying the Benefits of Improvements to Methane Drainage Systems
[view text version | module contents] - Module 7: Market, Risk, and Financial Analyses
[view text version | module contents] - Module 8: Case Study – Liulong Mine, China
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