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A Modern Tool for Modelling and Optimisation of Production in Underground Coal Mine

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eScience on Distributed Computing Infrastructure

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A new calculation tool allowing the user to model and optimise production in underground coal mines is presented in the paper. Hard coal plays an essential role in the world economics. Its consumption in 2011 increased faster than for any other energy produced from raw materials (excluding renewable sources). Achieving the planned output levels depends, first of all, on results acquired in the mining design process. It is now possible to support this design process with modern tools, which can significantly increase future mine efficiency as well as the quality of the raw material extracted. The calculation service for optimisation of the production in underground coal mines (OPTiCoalMine) is one of such tools.

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Brzychczy, E. (2014). A Modern Tool for Modelling and Optimisation of Production in Underground Coal Mine. In: Bubak, M., Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K. (eds) eScience on Distributed Computing Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10894-0_23

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