FUTURE OF OIL SHALE MINING

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FUTURE OF OIL SHALE MINING

• Aire Västrik
• Ingo Valgma, Veiko Karu, Vivika Väizene

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Table of Content

• Introduction
• Technology
• Software Modeling
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Estonia is independent energy producer
• Environmental restrictions
• Social pressure
• Deeper bedding of oil shale in potential mining
  fields
• Compromise between needs of economy and fears of
  mining influence

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Future oil shale production
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Introduction

• Oil shale
• strip mine
• Taking
• samples
• Testing

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Tabel of Content

• Introduction
• Technology
• Software Modeling
• Conclusion

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Technology and methods

New technology- new machines
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Testing- Surface Miner
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Cutting with longwall shearers
Fig. 8. Testing Twin Boom Axial Road Header
(Continuous miner) in Estonian Oil Shale deposit
in 1970ties We have tested Wirtgen surface miner
SM2100 and SM2600 for two years and SM2200 and
Man Tackraf
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Continuous miner
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Testing- backfilling
Schema Jan Palarski
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Table of Content

• Introduction
• Technology
• Software Modeling
• Conclusion

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• Where and how to mine
• Modern method
• Modeling

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Possible technologies in mining fields depending
on the given criteria
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Conclusion

• Best available techniques for oil shale mining
• World most used mining software
• Utilizing the modeling process allows optimizing
  the cycle of oil shale mining and explaining all
  stages of designing to the specialists and to the
  public.

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• Aire.vastrik_at_ttu.ee
• Ingo.valgma_at_ttu.ee
• Veiko.karu_at_ttu.ee
• Vivika.vaizene_at_ttu.ee